"how great things he must suffer for my name's sake" - Important Questions and Basic Answers

 

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Important Questions and Basic Answers

The beginning of this universe or this material world is the time when the energy in the spirit world worked so as to generate the material energy. In other word, it was when this universe or this material world was generated from the spirit world through thought, idea, or notion of the God with His words. That is why modern science based on only material physical laws cannot elucidate or make sense of the origin of the universe.

The beginning of each person is the time when a spirit came into its brain of the body still in a womb of its mother.  The end of each person is when its spirit leaves its brain and body.  That is why each person cannot understand what it is unless it understands spiritual matters.  But, it is also why the mankind need religion and myths that make them closer to spiritual matters.

The beginning of this era of material civilization is the time when Christ Jesus appeared in the human world 2,000 years ago.  Since then, the human world has developed through the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance period, the Age of Exploration, the Industrial Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, the French Revolution, the War of U.S. Independence, WWI, WWII, and etc.  Indeed, it is Christianity but neither Hinduism/Buddhism nor Taoism/Confucianism/classic Chinese culture that has made possible prosperity of the mankind as seen today.   

The material civilization established by power of Christianity has come to produce the huge amount of material wealth to the extent of destroying the nature or changing the earth environment.  This civilization was essentially based on Christianity, but wealth produced in the civilization has made people love wealth more than the God.  This is the key factor to our future. 

So, we have come from the spirit world, are in the material civilization based on the European/American culture established on Christianity, and are going to leave this material world to go back to the spirit world.  But the spirit world is ultimately divided into Heaven and the hells.  And, since the material civilization came to produce so much wealth as to make people love wealth more than the God, most of people have fallen into the heals; only a few have been admitted into Heaven.

And, since the Marian apparition in Fatima. Portugal, in 1917, the Holy Mary has never ceased to give warnings to the mankind: "The God is angry, since He has been betrayed by the mankind, so that He would not any more protect people from coming WWIII and great natural disasters."

So, although the Holy Mary is sad to see catastrophe of the human material civilization, this material civilization would be surely stopped through coming WWIII and great natural disasters in this century, namely 2,000 years after the first coming of Christ Jesus to the human world.  Indeed, the civilization of people most of whose souls fall into the hells after physical death should be worthless to the God.

So, now it is clear as to what we are, where we came from, where we are going to, and why we are not blessed by the God.

However, the God, Christ Jesus, and the Holy Mother are so merciful that They would allow the history of the mankind to continue to the 22nd century and onwards, if we repent and correct our thoughts and behaviors.  So, all we have to do is to love the God more than wealth produced by our material civilization.  In other word, we must love the God more than Satan who has been helping us in our achieving material prosperity and success.  

Satan has penetrated into our civilization in the form of money, so that it has made people revere it as a god.  Therefore the reasonable question is under whom we are living or who controls us, or otherwise why the God does not help us get material happiness.  The answer is because we are revering Satan in the form of money so much that the God is angry at us.

Finally, we have to try to be poor as much as possible to appease the God and hate money and material wealth, even if we come to madden Satan and its followers so fiercely.           

Indeed, important questions can be simple, and the correct answers are so basic: What should we do?  We have to try to become poor as much as possible to show our love to the God.     

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Acts 9, King James Version
15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
19 And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.
20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

"the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight" - Enlightenment in a Holy Mountain in Japan in 1995

 

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Enlightenment in a Holy Mountain in Japan in 1995

In 1995, a middle-aged mountain ascetic died in a notable holy mountain in Japan while he was practicing fasting to be continued for 60 days; he died of fatigue and breakdown at the 55th day of his fasting.  But, he wrote in his diary that he surely got enlightenment on the 37th day, namely August 31, 1995, although he died 5 days before planned completion. 　　

Such a mountain ascetic in Japan is usually called a practitioner of Shugen-do.  Practitioners of Shugen-do go into holy mountains and practice ascetic training alone for days while practicing rituals with prayer to great spirits of Japanese Buddhism or shintoism. 

This mountain ascetic had already made 40-day fasting by 1995.  He wanted to further train himself to get enlightenment, so that he could save all the mankind like the Buddha or Christ Jesus.  Many supporters came to the place of the training almost everyday, namely a small wooden hall in the mountain, carrying bottles or cases of water for him.  They took pictures and made a record on him, but could not save him from death.  After this accidental death in ascetic training, the supporters privately made a book on him.

According to his diary made public in the book, the mountain ascetic wrote that he found enlightenment meant realizing and understanding spiritual power, rather than getting spiritual sight, as he had been so told in his mind by great spirits of Buddhism and shintoism at the 37th day of fasting.

But at the time he was extremely broken up and debilitated.  But, he continued his fasting and even climbed to the top of the holy mountain.  He got sick and died at the 55th day of fasting. 

It is a tragedy; a man in ascetic training dies in a holy mountain, especially in Japan in 1990s.  But, his diary gave  a precious record about what he thought and felt in the training.       

According to his diary written by the mountain ascetic everyday during the fasting, he surely heard voices of great spirits of Buddhism and shintoism who told him that they had given him spiritual power that would lead him to enlightenment.  And, he believed in those words.  He found that power is enlightenment.  He thought that he would live till 100 years of his age with this power.  But, after hearing these words, he died 18 days later while continuing his fasting.

Probably after hearing these words, he should have asked his supporters to carry him to a base of the mountain.  But he attached his mind to his original plan to complete the 60-day fasting.

None has criticized the man; this tragedy has not been widely published in Japan.  But, we had better know this fact to know that there was a Japanese who tried to get enlightenment even risking his life in ascetic training at the end of the 20th century. 

In my opinion, reading the Bible and the Gospels 60 times from the first page to the last page must be also effective in getting enlightenment.  But, anyway, when a man dies and enters the spirit world, he would be surely given enlightenment by the God, if he so wishes.   

 

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John 9
10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

"Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?" - The Spiritual Energy vs. the Physical Laws

 

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The Spiritual Energy vs. the Physical Laws

This material world or the whole universe was created from the spirit world through the word or will of the God.  In other word, spiritual energy generated material energy from which this universe was created.

Therefore, no matter how hard scientists try to find how this universe was created with scientific means or by applying physical theories and laws, they cannot get a correct answer.  It is because they do not apply spiritual theories and laws.  Unless scientists admit there is the spirit world on which this material world was built, they must not be able to find the correct answer as to how this universe was created.  

As this material world or even the human world is built on the spirit world, spiritual energy can penetrate into this material world or even the human world, causing various supernatural phenomena or miracles in this world, since the spiritual energy surpasses physical energy or physical laws.

The miracles caused or performed by Christ Jesus should be viewed and considered from the above point of view.  Indeed, the spiritual energy can supersede the material energy.  And, as Christ Jesus could manipulate the spiritual energy, He could cause or perform various miracles as written in the Gospels.  

And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, 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)

And, the above passage tells how we can use the spiritual energy.  Through our faith we can use the spiritual energy to remove a mountain from one place to another.  And, we can do anything in this world with spiritual energy.  With it, we can bend a spoon or float ourselves in the air.

But, it is not only Christ Jesus who knew this truth about the power of the spiritual energy.  Some old monks or priests of the Japanese Buddhism or shintoism or even Japanese mountain ascetics knew this power of the spiritual energy.  They tried hard to purify their minds through hard physical training, so that they could get the ability to manipulate the spiritual energy.  There are records in the Japanese history that specific monks or priests of the Japanese Buddhism or shintoism or even Japanese mountain ascetics acquired the supernatural power through hard training such as fasting for scores of days.

Even in the history of European Christianity, some Christian monks or nuns are said to have acquired this ability through their faith.  They showed various miracles that the Vatican had to admit and authorize.  The holy spring at Lourdes discovered by a faithful French girl and the miracle of the Sun in Fatima around pious Portuguese children are considered to have been caused with this spiritual energy.  Some Christian monks or nuns are said to have floated in the air while praying or in religious ecstasy.  Their faith must have pulled the spiritual energy around them.  

Even modern psychics without strong faith in Christ Jesus or the God are said to be able to use the spiritual energy.  Such psychics are reportedly found in Japan, India, China, Brazil, the Philippines, etc.

It is mystery how Uri Geller, etc. have come to have the ability to use this ability.  But, it tells that this material world was essentially and originally created by the God with the spiritual energy.  And, spiritual energy can supersede the material force and physical laws in this world.  Indeed, quantum mechanics shows various mysterious phenomena at the level of elemental particles; science of astronomy shows various mysterious phenomena such as dark energy and dark force at the level of galaxies.  To find correct answers to explain these mysterious behaviors of elemental particles and galaxies, scientists should study the spirit world, the spiritual energy, and the God.                 

Anyway, after a man died, his mind or soul would go into the spirit world as Christ Jesus, Swedenborg, etc. tell.  And, he would become a spirit to live there.  The spirit should find correct answers to those questions such as how the universe or the material world was created from the spirit world.

However, Satan can also manipulate the spiritual energy.  It is said that a person haunted by Satan sometimes floated in the air.  So, Christ Jesus gave warnings about Satan, phony Christ, etc.          

Yet, you might be disappointed to know that the Pope never bends a spoon with his psychic power.  Indeed, I think that if Christ Jesus lived today, He should bend a spoon with his holy psychic power to show people that there is the spiritual energy in the human world.  Or, Christ Jesus is using Uri Geller, etc. on behalf of Him for some reasons.

Anyway, the human material civilization based on physical laws should be changed so as to more respect spiritual energy.

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Mark 9, King James Version
9 And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.
10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.
11 And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.