"Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him" - Ruins Symbolizing Spiritualism rather than Material Civilization

 

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Ruins Symbolizing Spiritualism rather than Material Civilization

It is still a mystery how huge Pyramids were built in ancient Egypt.  However, a Japanese female psychic named Aiko Gibo (1932 - 2003) found that they were built by engineers who had psychic power as she travelled to Giza in early 1990s in a TV program and invoked the spirit of Hemuin, the main architect of the greatest Pyramid in Giza about 4600 years ago. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwo_uH00bh0 in Japanese, but explanatory tiles are not correct in Japanese)

According to Hemuin, there were many excellent engineers with psychic power at the time, so that Hemuin mobilized them to build the pyramid.  Gibo also spiritually saw many people with a help from living things such as birds carrying big rocks on carriages.  The spirit of Hemulin told her that when rocks were successfully lifted and placed on the ground floor workers were very glad and engineers were assured of success in building the pyramid.  Therefore, psychic power must have been the key to building the Great Pyramid of Giza. 

Indeed, if ancient Egyptians had invented and used special machines or tools to carry and place big rocks in order in a specific and strict manner, those machines should have been depicted in mural painting at the time.  However there were no such evidence.  It should mean that they used psychic power that could not be expressed in paintings.  Gibo also found that Tutankhamen, a king of Egypt about 3,300 years ago, was poisoned to death with special wine.  Although some Japanese doubt her psychic ability, most of the people who saw her in TV shows and read her books or who met her in person for spiritual consultation believed in her spiritual power.  She wrote that she could see dead men's spirits or future, since she got the power when she had been an infant.  

She met Yuri Geller in her TV show sometimes in 1990s and Yuri Geller admitted her psychic ability while she had no doubt on Geller's psychic ability such as bending spoons.  Indeed, some psychics are well known for their spiritual or supernatural ability such as levitation or floating of their bodies in the air.  A Japanese swami or yoga practitioner made it public in 1990s that he succeeded several times in levitation with evidence photographs (https://lp6ac4.hatenablog.com/entry/20160901). 

Although Yuri Geller does not perform levitation, he might be able to float a spoon if he tried hard.  Magic tricks can make spoons bent, but spiritual power can, too.  It is unknown how Yuri Geller acquired this ability.  But, through decades of such performance, he has proved existence of such power.  He simply concentrates his mind on a spoon so that it will be bent without physical force.  Daniel Dunglas Home　who performed levitation in the late 19th century in England, etc. said that sprits helped him float in the air.  So, the key to performing miracles seems to lie in minds or spirits.  Indeed,  Christ Jesus said: "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you (Matthew 17)."

Aiko Gibo had no such spiritual power and she could not even move a stone with her mind power, but she could hear spiritual vices and music and felt power pulling her up onto the air when she entered into the Great Pyramid in Giza.  Napoleon also had a strange experience when he entered into the Pyramid in the late 18th century; his body was levitated to see his future on the ceiling of a corridor in the Pyramid.  Later, when Gibo visited the palace in France where the dead body of Napoleon was laid, she spiritually heard Napoleon's voice: "Did you see your future in the Pyramid, too?"  Indeed, when she entered the Great Pyramid in Giza, she was overwhelmed by spiritual atmosphere, so that she could not proceed from the corridor before the so-called chamber of the king.     

Anyway, the Great Pyramid in Giza seems to be a work of spirits.  Ancient Egyptians seem to have preserved spiritual power with which they must have built pyramids.  Indeed, there are no mural paintings or drawings of devices or tools that should have been used in building pyramids even if there had been such devices or tools.  So, it is natural to suppose that the Great Pyramid in Giza was built by spiritual power of the architects at the time.  It was hundreds years before the appearance of Abraham in the history that the Pyramid had been built.  There must have been some Egyptians who had spiritual power that had been possessed by the early mankind.  Our ancestors who lived thousands years or more ago must have lived with such spiritual power so as to resolve many fatal problems.  Without such spiritual or supernatural power, the mankind could not move out of Africa and to South America through Eurasia on foot.

But, as time went by and with development of material civilization, such psychic, spiritual, or supernatural ability seems to have been lost from most of the mankind.  So, today none can move big rocks with his psychic power to build another great pyramid.  Men of today would use many big building site equipment, which should be more economic and efficient than using psychic power and thousands of workers.

However, Abrahamic religions generated after Abraham's death based on Abraham's strong faith in God have survived in these 4,000 years like the Great Pyramid in Giza.  And, most of believers of these religions such as Christianity seem to be assured of their entering Heaven after they die in this world.  Yet, souls of those ancient Egyptians who built the Great Pyramid in Giza must have been trapped or locked in the Pyramid, so that Aiko Gibo and Napoleon must have encountered them in the Great Pyramid.

So, when handling big rocks in building the Great Pyramid, the weight of those rocks must have been lessened or decreased mysteriously if not floating in the air, so that workers must have been able to move them easily.  Or otherwise, many workers must have died from fatigue. But, there are no records of such a tragedy.  Remains around the Great Pyramid in Giza seem to reflect rather peaceful and easy life of those workers.

In conclusion, we had better regard the Great Pyramid in Giza as a ruin symbolizing ancient spiritualism rather than ancient material civilization.  But can people in the future, or the 22nd century or later regard the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican as symbolizing spiritualism of the 21st century and before?

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John 8, King James Version

28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
30 As he spake these words, many believed on him.
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

"What have we to do with thee, Jesus" - Traditional Japanese Spiritualism

 

Traditional Japanese Spiritualism

A Japanese female writer encountered mysterious incidents around her about 40 years ago such as rapping and impossible movement of goods.  She tried hard to stop the phenomena.  She asked many conjurors, faith healers, persons with spiritual ability, etc. to wipe out and drive out evil spirits.  It took about 20 years for her to get rid of evil spirits and mysterious troublesome incidents.  It was an old male conjuror of shintoism (a Japanese inherent generic religion based on ancient shamanism on which Japanese emperor's traditional religious authority was built) that succeeded in fixing the trouble through his prayer at her residence.  The evil spirits were completely wiped out and she can live in peace to date.  She wrote her experiences in her books.  Now she believes in the afterlife and existence of spirits while she is at her late 90s. 

If Europeans and Americans met this kind of mysterious and troublesome incidents, they should ask exorcists or special Christian priests.  But in such cases in Japan, people asked professional conjurors, faith healers or special priests of shintoism, special monks of Buddhism, or other persons with spiritual ability in other religions related to shintoism or Buddhism.  Indeed, in Japan where about only 10% of the people are Christians, spiritual matters have been handled mostly by priests and monks of shintoism or Buddhism or religions related to shintoism or Buddhism.

There are many Japanese who are interested in spiritual matters.  There are may works of art, comics (manga), animations and videos, novels, etc. where spiritual matters are handled.  And there are about seven million Japanese pages and posts in the internet where spiritual phenomena or experiences are presented or reported.      

The Japanese history is full of incidents related spiritualism.  The first Japanese queen regnant recoded in a Chinese official history book in the 3rd century was depicted as she governed the nation with shamanism and her spiritual ability.  Although it is not yet proved that her regime was the origin of the Japanese imperial family, early Japanese official history books written in the 8th century present various spiritual incidents around emperors.   Cursing and imprecation were common practices when the capital of Japan under emperors was in Nara in the 8th century and before.  In order to get rid of cursing and imprecation by enemies, the emperor at the time moved the capital to Kyoto in 794, but cursing and imprecation never ceased. 

So, the imperial family and noble people hired many professional conjurors, faith healers or special priests of shintoism, special monks of Buddhism, etc.  Kyoto was full of cursing and imprecation.  This situation allowed samurais (warriors or Japanese knights) with military power to get power, since their direct exercise of their physical forces proved more effective.  In this way, political power shifted from the imperial family to samurai clans in the late 12th century.  But, samurais also relied on spiritual power of priests of shintosim and monks of Buddhism.  Especially, when Mongolians tried to invade Japan in the 13th century, the then samurai regime asked all the priests and monks of shintoism and Buddhism to pray for Japan and the samurai regime.  As Mongolian troops from China and Korea were attacked by strong typhoons, their fleets were destroyed and their soldiers were defeated.  Japan was saved, and since then Japan has never been attacked by Chinese and Koreans as well as Mongolians.

So, all the Japanese people came to believe that Japan was protected by spirits of shintoism and Buddhism; this belief continued till Japan was defeated by the U.S. and its allies in WWII or when the Empire of Japan surrendered in 1945.  However, special priests and monks were also mobilized in WWII to put a deadly curse on American leaders, and the then President Roosevelt died suddenly and mysteriously before the end of WWII.  But Japan had to suffer atomic-bomb attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

Yet, people in the Japanese society did not give up their belief in spirits in shintoism and Buddhism.  They know that there are also evil spirits in addition to good spirits.  Those who were assured that they could spiritually connect to good spirits often established their own religions.  And those who believed that they were attacked by bad spirits often relied on such religious people for help.  And the female writer is one of them. 

However, the effect of cursing or imprecation is not officially admitted by the Japanese government.  Yet, some Japanese tend to resort to professional conjurors when they want to cause troubles to others.  Indeed, if Japanese were Ukrainians, they would pray to spirits or deities of shintoism or Buddhism to exercise their destructive power on Russian leaders and soldiers.  However, its effect is not assured.

Anyway, the Japanese tradition and culture have such underlying spiritualism.  Therefore, they might not feel necessity to rely on spirits of Christ Jesus and other Christian saints.  Yet, there are no Satan and evil spirits in the Kingdom of the God in Christianity.  But there seem to be some dubious or evil spirits around shintoism and the Japanese Buddhism.  So, it is better to have faith in Christianity.  

Nonetheless, fight against Satan or evil spirits is one of main themes of Christianity.  Or, unless you are in battles against Satan or evil spirits, you may not deserve the title of Christians or the followers of Christ Jesus.   

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Matthew 8, King James Version
28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
33 And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.