"I do set my bow in the cloud" - The Peaceful Era after WWII Seems to have Ended

 

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The Peaceful Era after WWII Seems to have Ended

About 2,000 years ago, the God decided to send His Son Christ Jesus to the human world so as to save the mankind.  And, His will was done in the earth as it was in Heaven.  But, there is something for us to consider.

His Son Christ Jesus should be born as a human being from a human mother.  Therefore, the God had to find or choose any good woman as the mother of Christ Jesus.  It must have been not so easy to find a woman good enough to be the mother of the Son of the God.  And, without such a woman, the God might have abandoned such an idea to send His Son Christ Jesus to the human world.  Indeed, she must have been already exceptionally faithful, good, kind, grace, and beautiful before God's intervention in the human world.  Truly, if the God had not been able to find such a woman, He might have changed His mind so as to forsake the mankind 2,000 years ago, although it is unthinkable that there is a case where the God cannot do anything.

In this context, everything on the mankind in these 2,000 years has depended on existence of a woman called Mary in Palestine 2,000 years ago.  And, as the God found her good enough to be the mother of the Son of the God, He sent His spirit to Mary, so that Christ Jesus came to be born with God's spirit 2,000 years ago.  She is now called Mother of God and the Queen of Peace.  She must wear the Queen's crown whenever she appears in apparition, but children and youths who encountered apparitions might not have realized it.  

It is also said that Mother Mary could destroy and disperse Satan, since she wears the crown given by the God.

Without Mary 2,000 years ago, there could be no Son of the God, namely Christ Jesus, among the mankind.  But, Mary did not come from Heaven or the God; she was born as a human being to be extremely good, faithful, kind, grace and beautiful without direct power or spirit of the God.

This story is historically symbolized by the Mitochondrial Eve who is estimated to have lived in Africa around 155,000 years ago and whose DNA's traits in mitochondria are shared by all the living members of today's mankind.   

For instance, the holy day of the assumption of Mary is August 15; the holy day of Immaculateness of Mary is December 8.  And, in 1941 Japan launched the Pearl Harbor Attack before the dawn on December 8 in Japan time, and in 1945 Japan surrendered to the U.S. and the allies on August 15 in Japan time to end WWII.       

Although Japan is not a Christian country with qualified Christians accounting for only 1% of Japan's population, its modern history is strangely liked to some holy days of Mother Mary.  And, there are no Japanese who do not know the name of the mother of Christ Jesus.  "Maria" is one of common girl names in Japan.

Finally, it is not so strange that I, a Japanese, is concerned about warnings delivered by Mother Mary on coming great disasters on the mankind in the 21st century.  Indeed, the era of peace after WWII has ended with Queen Elizabeth II gone, Russia engaged in the Russo-Ukrainian War, China launching a large scale of military drills around Taiwan in response to Pelosi's visit to Taipei, etc.  

Put simply, WWIII seems to start around 2030...      

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Genesis 9, King James Version
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

"others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he" - Too Many People Going down to the Hells

 

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Too Many People Going down to the Hells

One of the most significant teachings of Christ Jesus is related to the place where one would go after his/her death in this world:

John 14, King James Version

14 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Christ Jesus meant that we should not be troubled and fear when we faced our death.  To believe in God and Christ Jesus means to believe that there is Heaven where we should go after our death in this world.  Moreover, Christ Jesus said kindly that He would beforehand go and prepare places for us in Heaven.  Put simply, when we die in this world, our souls with our minds will enter Heaven if we believe in the God and Christ Jesus.  Therefore, what Christ Jesus teaches is the way, and believing that what He said is true means having life.  What's more, without believing in Christ Jesus, we cannot enter Heaven to come close to the God.

Therefore, our death in this world means our departure to the spirit world and further into Heaven, only if we have faith in the God and Christ Jesus.  Death cannot be a tragic event for believers.  In other words, one who dies with faith in the God and Christ Jesus is blessed, because they should be welcomed in Heaven to have happy life for ever.

But, what becomes of us if we don't believe in the God and Christ Jesus?  The Gospels clearly read that the rich fall into the hells, while being rich means having no faith.  Therefore, the rich should be laid under a course when they die.

One has freedom, liberty, and ability to choose to be rich or poor.  And this means to choose Heaven or the hells as the place to live in after our death in this world.  But, Christ Jesus did not say that there should be no exceptions for this rule, since the God is almighty. 

In addition, Mother Mary, Queen of Peace, said in her apparition that She nowadays  was extremely sad as She was seeing too many people going down to the hells after their death in the human world.        

  

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John 9, King James Version

6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.
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.

"Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house" - A Method of Bringing about a Miracle

 

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A Method of Bringing about a Miracle

A Japanese doctor of engineering who also studied supernatural phenomena found, more than decades ago, that a supernatural phenomenon could happen when a man put his brain into the state of theta brain waves.

In this state of the brain, the time around him could pass at a very high speed.  While time in an environment passes one second, the time around him could pass hundreds of years.  As a result, a spoon he is holding could experience the time flow of hundreds of years while he is holding a spoon in an environment for only a few seconds, so that the spoon comes to show metallic fatigue and finally bends.

He also found that he could see the future several years later as he put his brain into the state of theta brain waves.  It is because the time flow in environments in future several years can be only a few seconds for him, so that he can see the future so easily.  Future prediction became so easy for him, so that he could even see when other men would died.   

The time scale can be different between a man whose brain is in a state of theta brain waves and a surrounding environment.  As a result, he invented a device to cause a theta brain wave state in the brain of a man, although it has not been globally popular despite some reports of obtaining good effects from the device.  

It is also said that the spirit world is independent of time.  So, when a man dies and enters into the spirit world, he must be able to see things in the past and future alike.  If his spirit tries to interfere with this world, it should be able to cause a phenomenon in the human world where the phenomenon looks a kind of miracles.    

Christ Jesus must have had this kind of ability, so that He could work various miracles.

Anyway, there is a method of bringing about a miracle.  However, the Japanese doctor of engineering died at 86 in 2002 while he had predicted that he would die in his 90s.  He had been destined to die at his 60s or 70s when he checked his life expectancy in his 60s, although he later got words twice from a Japanese deity that his life length would be prolonged 12 years or more.

The reason of extending his life duration was that he had contributed public good with his many inventions, according to the Japanese deity.  There must be more conditions for deciding the time scale for a man.

  

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Matthew 9, King James Version

4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
7 And he arose, and departed to his house.

"whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide" - A Theory of Origin of the Mankind and UFOs

 

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A Theory of Origin of the Mankind and UFOs

A Japanese researcher on spiritual matters and another who launched a new religion based on his psychic ability claimed a new theory on emergence of human beings and UFOs. 

According to their theory, UFOs came to the earth 360 million years ago from a planet situated between Jupiter and Mars which exploded due to failure of controlling nuclear fusion energy.  But, highly-civilized residents of the planet could escape the planet with UFOs before the planet got completely demolished to pieces of debris which are still floating between Jupiter and Mars.

When UFOs reached the earth, there were no suitable environments on the earth for their survival as the earth was just before the era of dinosaurs.  So, these aliens after their death had their souls enter into animals and plants on the earth at the time.  Generations after generations, namely more than 350 million years, their souls lived in animals and plants on the earth, but when certain types of the primates evolved into the mankind, their souls got into bodies of these types of the primates.  And, from them, the mankind was generated with souls of the aliens.          

But not all the UFOs had not been lost before the emergence of the mankind.  Some of these aliens could hide some UFOs, and a special group of the aliens could preserve UFOs and their direct descendants have inherited the knowledge of UFOs to date.  

Therefore, UFOs observed today by some people are vehicles used by our spiritual ancestors in their migration from another planet, now lost, in this solar system to the earth.  And, aliens using UFOs are the similar type of creatures to the mankind in terms of spirits. 

But, as these souls had been in bodies of animals other than the mankind for so long, their souls got degraded so that they have lost civilized dispositions, which is why more than half of the mankind today are so mean and vulgar.  To restore or enhance the quality of souls of the mankind, the God sent various saints such as Christ Jesus, the Buddha, etc. with heavenly souls to the mankind, but the mankind has developed its material civilization to the dangerous level to pose a threat to the nature of the earth.  So, it is inevitable that the mankind will face a great crisis sooner or later and its population will be drastically reduced.  But, after the crisis predicted to occur in the 21st century, the mankind will survive and rebuild a more spiritual civilization tens of thousands later.      

However, not all the souls of the mankind might not be linked to the souls of the aliens who came to the earth 360 million years ago.  Even, it is said there are some people among the current mankind whose souls were originated in some other galaxies such as the Andromeda Galaxy.

But, UFOs might secretly observe the mankind to see how its civilization will be broken like in their home planet between Jupiter and Mars.  Anyway, if their theory is correct, UFOs and aliens do not seem to actively help the mankind from the coming crisis, no matter if they still preserve the past civilization developed in their old, home planet.

In this context, we have to still ask Christ Jesus for help but not UFOs and descendants of the original aliens even if we share the same spirit world with such aliens.  And, when we rebuild a new spiritual civilization based on new energy better than nuclear fusion energy tens of thousands years later, UFOs might come to join us.

In addition, Swedenborg, a great psychic in the 18th century, wrote that he met many spirits coming from various planets in the whole universe when he had been allowed to enter the spirit world or the afterlife while living in this world, although there seems to be unclear distinction between our solar system and other solar systems.           

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Luke 9, King James Version

3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.

"And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name?" - Now in a Historic Crisis or under God's Anger

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Now in a Historic Crisis or under God's Anger

We have to admit that our civilization is now in a dangerous state. Our civilization is based on the concept that the earth and the nature are virtually limitless and they have the infinite capacity to sustain themselves. No matter how much we have exploited and damaged them with power of our civilization, the earth and the nature will not be damaged fatally and can be recovered, according to our belief. But, it is wrong. The earth, the nature, and the mankind are at risk.       

One of proofs is the abnormal climate caused by global warming due to an increase in CO2.  It seems to be impossible to stop this dangerous trend in the global climate.  Unless we discover or develop new energy whose use does not give negative influences to the earth, we cannot stop global warming.  If we continue to use conventional energy such as fossil energy, consumed energy, in addition to consumed fuel, will be finally output to the environment and to the air, thus increasing temperature of the earth.   

Another proof is contamination of the environment.  Consumed energy and fuel increase temperature, but products of industry turn to be industrial wastes after consumed in their final states.  We can now see broken pieces of plastics everywhere, even in the oceans.  Even in space around the earth, there are about 3,000 artificial satellites abandoned or out of service in addition to about 20,000 debris larger than 10 cm and about a half million debris less than 10 cm but larger than or equal to 1 cm.  Put simply, the earth and the space around the earth are now full of wastes.       

When a man buys and runs a car, he does not think that he is posing a danger to the whole mankind.  But, now 1.5 billion four-wheel cars are running globally in addition to other types of automobiles, while most of them are using fossil fuel.  CO2 and energy output from these cars, including electric energy turned to mechanical energy in the case of electric cars, are surely contaminating the environment and increasing temperature.  This status of situations has continued for about a century.  The mankind has been smashing its way toward total demolition of the environment from which our civilization emerged.   

What is worse, the mankind is busy in internal competition to acquire benefits, advantages, wealth, etc. among themselves privately or nations officially.  In this context, the mankind will enter nuclear warfare in the worst case to suppress hostile countries.  We may see a total nuclear war in the fully contaminated world with full of wastes and debris.  It is unbelievable that the mankind have become so crazy and foolish like a kind of pigs rolling in muddy water.

After the mankind has achieved the highest level of material success by developing its civilization, it is now facing the danger of total debacles of their civilization.  But, Satan should feel disappointed, since it must want to see the mankind further getting rotten and debased in pursuing and acquiring further money and wealth.  What Satan wants to see is corruption and degradation of the mankind but not its annihilation.  If there are no sols on the earth, Satan cannot take any souls to the hells to put them under its dominance.   

 

Therefore, it must be the God that approves demolition of the human civilization through its foolish activities.  The God must lose passion and intention to save the mankind.  It is because so many people have sold their souls to Satan.  Their material desire has driven them to the sate where they want money, wealth, material happiness, higher positions, etc. even if they have to sell their souls to Satan.  So, the God is about to forsake the mankind, for which Mother Mary has given warnings to the mankind through various apparition events to innocent children and teenagers since the 19th century like in La Salette, Fatima, Garabandal, Medjugorje, etc.  

So, taking into consideration the current state of our material civilization, the intention of the God, the merciful warnings given by Mother Mary, etc., a great tragedy is coming to this world soon in this early 21st century.  All of abnormal climate, the war in Ukraine, and the corona-pandemic suggest and support this prediction. 

According to Isaac Newton who studied the Bible enthusiastically in the 18th century, the start of the end of the world will begin in 2060 or later.  In my forecast, the end of time since the start of the Industrial Revolution will start around 2050 and  the current material civilization will collapse in the 21st century.  The human population will be drastically decreased in this period, but afterward some human beings can continue to survive in more spiritual environments.  And, prosperity is regained with human population coming back the current level of billions.  A Japanese researcher of spiritual matters predicted in the late 20th century that it would take thousands of years or more that the human population would increase again to the current level after 300 years of population decrease to one tenth of the current level starting in the 21st century.

Anyway, we are now in a historic crisis or under God's anger.            


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Luke 8, King James Version

30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
34 When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

"What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?" - Taking Deep Breaths and Praying in the Past Tense for Health

 

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Taking Deep Breaths and Praying in the Past Tense for Health

The lesson to be learnt from the corona-pandemic is importance of oxygen.

A man has about 50 trillion cells.  The most important nutrition for each cell is oxygen.  Without foods, a man can live more than a week if with water.  Without water, a man can survive about three days.  But without oxygen, one can live only 5 minutes or so.  Without supply of oxygen for five minutes, a man will surely die.

With enough oxygen, each cell functions as it should.  Then, there will be no chances for cancer cells to be generated and grow.  This must be a key to maintaining health.

In addition to oxygen, each cell needs spiritual energy to normally function in addition to nutrients.  This spiritual energy, like electromagnetic energy, should come from the human mind through the neuronal system to each cell.  If a man prays strongly for cure of a disease with a focus on the harmed part of his body, the state of disease should be improved.

Therefore, one should take a deep breath while praying for healing of a disease.  This is the method to cure a disease and keep health recommended by a Japanese physician who lived till the age of 105.

Nobuo Shioya (1902-2008) was also known his study in spirits and the spirit world.  Through his medical practice, he found that power of oxygen and prayer is effective for curing diseases.  He also applied the method of putting his hand on the seat of disease of a patient to cure him/her.  When his hand was measured scientifically, it was found that strong electric energy was emitted from his hand.  With this method of taking deep breathes and praying for cure, he kept his health till his death over the age 100. 

Shioya also recommended people to pray that their diseases had been cured in the past tense while taking deep breathes.  And, one should also join his hands in a special form so that energy in the universe should fall into his body through his hands joined in the special form. (https://www.naturalscience.org/news/2020/03/the-healing-power-of-breath/)       

However, more interestingly when he was young, he visited a psychic who was performing spiritual healing in Kyusyu, west Japan.  The psychic cured patients without special means but watching them before an alter dedicated to Japanese gods.  The psychic said that he just worked as a conduit where power of gods flew to patients to cure them.  So, Shioya confirmed existence of spiritual power.

But, as Shioya had performed his method of putting his hand on a patient to cure him, he had been expelled from the University of Tokyo hospital.  Yet, he succeeded as a doctor in private practice.  And, with his method, he could heal many patients.  

In this era of the corona-pandemic, we should refer to Shioya's method for health.  But, we should also pray that peace of the world came already in addition to praying and believing that our diseases were already cured.

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Matthew 8, King James Version
27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
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.

"but he that sent me is true" - The Merciful and Graceful Game of Mother Mary

 

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The Merciful and Graceful Game of Mother Mary

The God loves the poor and poverty.  This is the core of the messages preached by Christ Jesus.

You have to be poor and poorer and love poverty.  This is the essence of the words preached by Christ Jesus. 

Indeed, Christianity is the religion for the poor and poverty.  This is the key to understanding Christianity, human history, and this world as well as the afterlife.

However, Satan has recommended people to become rich and richer and love wealth as much as possible.  This is the main dogma of Satan's teaching and people have accepted this dogma despite Christianity spreading all over the world in these 2,000 years.     

Indeed, there is truth of the world that cannot be comprehended unless you are poor.  The world seen by a poor man is different from the world seen by a rich man.  Therefore, the deepest truth and phase of the world cannot be understood by rich elites, politicians, professors, journalists, researchers, authors, etc. as well as rich men of religion.  

Therefore, when poor men die in this world, they would go directly to Heaven where they can enjoy love and light of the God, being led by the truth they obtained while living in the human world.  But, rich men being blind to the truth due to their desires for wealth should go to the hells where there is no love and light of the God, since they are afraid of and hate love and light of the God but love the hells where they can neglect, harm, insult, and suppress others as much as possible, although finally they will be neglected, harmed, insulted, and suppressed as much as Satan wants. 

With development of material civilization in these 2,000 years, the amount of material wealth the mankind can produce has increased to the current level and the number of rich men who can enjoy wealth has increased to the current level, while still there are more poor people than the rich people.

In order to be rich and richer, men would even sell their souls to Satan to get any crafty ideas.  With more rich men, the world would be more corrupted and debased.  Rich men must feel no need of the God.  They should be rather proud of doing any cruel things and following faithfully Satan, as if Satan were the God.  They believe in power of money and wealth more than power of the God.  On the other hand, poor men who have no means except praying to the God would pray to the God for help more till they find and get confident that they can be happy in Heaven after death in this world.  So, the God loves the poor and poverty while Satan tries to arouse desire more in the rich.

Finally, poor men with 100 percent of love for the God will be accepted in Heaven after death in this world.  But, rich men who have sold their souls to Satan in order to be rich and keep wealth should go to the hells so as to avoid confrontation with the God.  And the God might not mind if all the people sell their souls to Satan trying to be rich in this world and no souls can enter Heaven.  For the God, it might be nothing if all the people have become subjects of Satan.  The God can destroy and exterminate them all with Satan in the hells at any moment.  The God cannot be hurt by Satan and its subjects at all.  It is just a crazy and meaningless game of Satan.   

But, Mother Mary sees this situation in the spirit world where most of people go to the hells generations after generations to be greatly saddened.  So, She started to appear in apparition especially after the 19th century, giving warnings to the mankind through innocent children and chaste adolescents.  This must be the truth of Fatima, Garabandal, Medjugorje, etc.          

In this context, we are in the merciful and graceful game of Mother Mary against Satan before the end of time.

Finally, we had better think what Christ Jesus would do to us.  Will He neglect the mankind being further rottener and falling into the hells?  Or will He try to save the mankind from falling into the hells so as to console Mother Mary.

Most probably, the mankind would have to undergo a great tragedy in this century.  The world population might be greatly reduced.  But, the mankind should repent and abolish the faith in money and wealth finally to do away with Satan.  And, the mankind will start to build a new civilization based on respect of poverty and spiritualism.  People would start to compete for becoming materially poor and poorer but spiritually rich and richer.  And then, all the people would be happy in this world and the afterlife.  As a result, Mother Mary should also become happy seeing most of people entering Heaven. 


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John 8, King James Version

25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
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.

"Whither I go, ye cannot come" - A Medical Doctor who Took Infinite Power of the Universe into the Body

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A Medical Doctor who Took Infinite Power of the Universe into the Body

There are some psychics who perform spiritual healing or medication.  In Japan, the most successful man in this field is Nobuo Shioya (1902-2008).

Dr. Shioya graduated from the University of Tokyo and started to work in the university hospital.  But as he performed healing with his hand put on a patient, he was forced to leave the hospital.  But, he became the most successful town physician in Tokyo before WWII as his method of using his hand as a tool to cure patients was so effective although he also used ordinary modern medication.   

He also studied spiritual matters through WWII, and confirmed that there were spirits, the spirit world, and paranormal phenomena while performing medical practice.  But, as he realized that most of spirits invoked were low-level sprits, so that he stopped hosting spiritism sessions.  And, one day he realized that there was a more effective way of healing patients than using his hand.  So, he finally stopped using his hand. 

The effective way is to use infinite power of the universe.  And this power can be taken in the human body through practicing right breathing, although one should have a right and faithful mind toward God in applying this method.  He called the method the "Breading Control Method with Right Mind."  The method of using a hand is one of derivation of this method of using infinite power of the universe, according to the conclusion of his study. 

Shioya applied his method to himself and cured various troubles caused by aging in health such as prostatitis and cataract.  He also found that his aging body was rejuvenated.  He even became an age-shooter in golf in his 90s.  He wrote some books on his health method and thoughts on the human world in his 90s.

But, he had not been nameless till his 90s.  His medical achievement was well known even by the imperial family.  He was privately invited to the imperial palace, and was thanked by the empress of Showa who gave him a picture painted by herself to show her gratitude.  

However, what is remarkable about him is that he got a warning from his guardian spirit in late 1940s that the human world should suffer a drastic tragedy in 60 years due to corruption and putrefaction of the human civilization.  Shioya asked the spirit whether the time should come after his death.  The spirit said, "Yes."  And Shioya died in 2008 at his 105.

Indeed, after 2008, the world seems to enter the era of tragedy with the global financial crisis, the Fukushima nuclear accident, the Russian invasion into Crimea, China's aggression, the corona pandemic, and the Russian invasion into Ukraine as well as abnormal climate.  WWIII seems to be coming closer and the global climate looks further deteriorated.        

We should listen to Shioya, a successful medical doctor who launched the method of taking infinite universal power into the human body.

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John 8, King James Version

21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

"Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father" - Satan Trying to Make Men Regard It as an Angel

 

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Satan Trying to Make Men Regard It as an Angel

Mother Mary is said to have power to disperse Satan.  So, Satan should feel fear when it confronts Her.

A decade or more ago, a Japanese professor of a Catholic university in Japan who believed that he had been saved by Mother Mary in a heavy medical operation to remove cancer from his abdomen through prayers to Her visited Lourdes, France, to show his gratitude, although his health was not yet fully recovered from the operation.  He was not a Christian but wanted to convey his thankfulness to Mother Mary, since She saved his life.

In the village of Lourdes at a cold night in winter, the professor happened to take supper in an outside restaurant where a stranger, who looked like a foreigner in France, said to him "Courage" for an unknown reason when he passed by the professor eating.  Then, the professor alone walked to the cliff where a statue of Mother Mary was set in order to take pictures as a memorial.  But, he found a young woman with a fine-featured face in red alone kneeling down and praying to the statue of Mother Mary so diligently.  She should not have been there at cold night as an obstacle for taking photos.  The statue of Mother Mary, the young woman in red, and the Japanese professor were situated there alone in the cold winter night of Lourdes. 

The young European woman continued her prayers while the Japanese professor was standing beside her with a camera to catch a chance to take pictures of Mother Mary.  As he had recently undergone the medical operation, he felt a little discomfort and got irritated waiting for her prayers to be completed.  But, she continued her prayers alone in coldness of winter night before the statue of Mother Mary for further 10 to 15 minutes.  

In about 30 minutes, she finally finished, stood up, kissed the statue, and turned to the Japanese professor still standing beside her with a digital camera at hand.  But, her eyes showed strong anger and the line of her sight pierced his eyes, so that he felt acute fear.  He felt as if he were going to be killed by her.  Instead, as she silently walked by him, he hurriedly took pictures of the statue of Mother Mary and went back to a hotel, carefully avoiding encounter with her in a street with her.

Later the professor found that it was not to him that she gave the stink eye at the moment, but she focused on someone unseen behind him.  And, he believed that someone was the stranger he had met in the outside restaurant before walking to the statue of Mother Mary.  Indeed, his word "Courage" was appropriate as he really felt so horrible in front of the young woman in red.  The stranger must be an angel unseen behind him at the site who was sent by Mother Mary to protect him.  But, the woman in red showed antagonism to the stranger.  The professor was confused.

 

Back in Japan, the professor met a Christian who introduced himself as an expert of Satan and heard the incident in Lourdes from the professor.  The Christian told him that the woman in red had been Satan and she had showed anger to someone standing unseen behind him.  So, he confirmed that the stranger he had met in the restaurant was an angel sent by Mother Mary to protect him.  He now clearly found that the angel walked after him silently to the cliff, concealing himself, to protect him from Satan.  The Christian also stressed that the woman in red was surely Satan, and thus she showed her anger to the angel protecting him with a sever line of sight, since Satan tried to make him suffer standing long in coldness of winter night with a fragile body after the recent medical operation.  The Japanese professor thought that he had been saved again by Mother Mary.  And, he thought that the stranger might be Angel Michael.   

But, the truth seems to be that the young woman in red was an angel sent by Mother Mary and the stranger whom he had met in the restaurant was Satan.  And, the expert of Satan was a devil working under Satan.  Satan thus in this way tried to persuade the Japanese professor to regard the angel sent by Mother Mary as Satan, and Satan as an angel sent by Mother Mary.  Satan is so wicked and smart to make one believe that the God is Satan and Satan is the God.

Indeed, the Japanese professor did not try to pray to the statue of Mother Mary beside the young woman together, but showed his irritation somehow to her praying, waiting for a better chance for taking pictures of the statue with his digital camera as a memorial to his visit to Lourdes.  The angel, namely the young European woman in red, should feel discomfort with the professor accompanied by Satan unseen, too.  From a religious view point, it is a great sin to mistake an angel sent by Mother Mary as Satan.

Indeed, Satan cannot confront Mother Mary.  Satan must be also afraid of the glance by an angel sent by Mother Mary to protect Her followers.

In my opinion, the young woman in red in Lourdes, namely an angel sent by Mother Mary, must have been praying that health of the Japanese professor would be fully recovered, although he appeared before the statue of Mother Mary with a camera, being accompanied by Satan, and believed that she was Satan.

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John 8, King James Version

17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.

"because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet" - A Materially Poor but Spiritually Rich Civilization

 

A Park around a Shrine around Tokyo

A Materially Poor but Spiritually Rich Civilization

A great crisis is going to happen on our global civilization in this early 21st century as predicted by Christ Jesus, Holly Mary, Isaac Newton, Swedenborg as well as some reliable Japanese researchers on spiritualism.

Wars, big natural disasters, economic crises, political troubles, etc. should happen in a large scale in various areas, leading the world to collapse.  As a result, the current material prosperity in the human world should be tumbled. 

It is because the current civilization is against the teaching of the God and the words of Christ Jesus.  Without support from the God, Christ Jesus, and Holy Mary, the human civilization cannot be continued.  Moreover, from the beginning, the mankind killed the Son of the God 2,000 years ago and have never fully apologized the God for the crazy atrocity.  

Rather, it shows great tolerance of the God that the mankind has been able to continue their history for these 2,000 years despite their unforgivable sin of killing the Son of the God.  In other words, the mankind must have been annihilated at any time in these 2,000 years.  And, the time limit for repentance must come finally in this early 21st century. 

The teaching of Christ Jesus is simple: Love the poor and poverty.  But, our civilization is based on the belief that men can and should be rich and richer as much as possible.  For instance, there are no countries that set the upper limit of the amount of wealth any individuals are allowed to obtain and possess.  Men should have built a civilization based on respect to this teaching of Christ Jesus.  But, as men cannot in these 2,000 years, the God seems to decide to force the mankind to follow this teaching of Christ Jesus by destroying material prosperity of the mankind that have been achieved through their following Satan's teaching.  

For this purpose, the God will not save the human civilization from collapse due to their disobedience to the teaching of Christ Jesus.  "Let them collapse with their wealth!" must be God's judgment.  The God hates rich men so much while Satan has encouraged men to seek wealth and material happiness in this world.  As men have chosen Satan, it is no wonder that the God has reprobated men.

So, we are going to see the world suffering WWIII, great natural disasters caused by wrong application of the material civilization to the nature, etc.  But, Holy Mary is merciful as She has given a warning on such a tragedy for these centuries.  If we fully repented and started to hate money and wealth, She should ask the God and Christ Jesus to forgive the mankind.

Therefore, we have to hate money and wealth and stop revering Satan as a god.  For example, we do not need any expensive medications to cure diseases, but we have to ask the God to cure our diseases through any natural or spiritual means.  And, we have to realize that a man can continue to live in the spirit world after physical death in this world.  From the beginning, we do not have to be afraid of death.

The coming tragedy in the 21st century cannot be avoided.  But, even if the human population becomes one hundredth of the current level due to the tragedy, the mankind might be still allowed to build a new civilization centuries later.  All we have to do is to change our mind-sets and love the poor and poverty.  It means that we have to truly believe the teaching of Christ Jesus that the poor can enter Heaven but the rich cannot after death in this world.

In the new civilization to be built after the tragedy in the 21st century, everyone should compete so as to become poorer than others.  A materially poor but spiritually rich civilization should continue for further 2,000 years or more.      

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Mark 8, King James Version

15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.
17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

"Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him" - A Story of Receiving a Warning from a UFO

Tokyo

A Story of Receiving a Warning from a UFO 

Decades ago in west Japan, a man encountered with a UFO in a mountain from which he got an instruction to write down messages the UFO would send to him.

So, he went back home to receive messages and record them.  It took 60 sheets of paper, but he could not read the words, since they were not in Japanese, English, or any other known languages.  And then, another message came to him from the UFO, telling him to send the record to a man named Masaki in Okayama.  So, Kazumi Masaki (1916-2002), a doctor of engineering who was then well known for his study in supernatural power in Osaka University, received the record of messages from the UFO.  At the first glance at the record, he found that it was directed to him by a UFO.  The letters, characters and words used in the messages were of the Japanese language having been used 15,000 years ago.  For a mysterious reason, Masaki could read them.  The following is the content of the record:

As human beings have used low-level gasoline engines for so long and contaminated the air and harmed natural environments, disasters would fall on the human world.  The population of the mankind would reduce to 1% of the current level or tens of millions in 250 years.  Cars and jet planes will not be used any more.  And, it will take more than 15,000 years that fresh air and the natural environment will be restored and human population will start to reach again the current level of billions.

So, Masaki invented an engine working with air to apply for patent.    

Apart from Masaki's engine, what concerns me is that the human history might undergo soon severe situations where 99 of 100 persons will perish. 

In my speculation, the current war in Ukraine would develop into WWIII in late 2020s.  And, Russia would use nuclear weapons while China would start military invasion into Taiwan.  The U.S. would fight again in two fronts like in WWII.  But, finally the Democratic camp would prevail, but damage the human world should suffer must be great.  And, the mankind should repent and give up the current mode of material civilization.  But after 250 years of the dark period, the nature will start to be restored to the original state.  And, the mankind will start new civilization after 15,000 years where natural environments of the earth are not contaminated and damaged.

If you don't believe in UFOs or supernatural power, you may not believe in this prediction.  But, if you do, you must be worry about the future of the mankind.  So, it is worth thinking about this story.   

For your reference, it is not verified that there was a civilization in Japan 15,000 years ago where a specific writing system was used.  

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Matthew 8, King James Version

4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.

"it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it" - Peace on Earth already Came True in the Spirit World

Peace on Earth already Came True in the Spirit World

The God does not like material wealth and rich men in this world.  But, people want to increase material wealth and become rich and richer as much as possible.  Therefore, the God should not listen to such people praying to the God for any material requests.

But, Satan loves material wealth and rich men in this world.  And, people want to increase material wealth and become rich and richer as much as possible.  Therefore, Satan would listen to such people asking any spiritual entity with mysterious power for any material requests. 

As a result, men whose wishes and prayers have been neglected by the God would turn to Satan and start to make a deal with it.  Satan would encourage them to accept any evil so that their material wishes should come true.  Such men would further rely on Satan as their material wishes are fulfilled due to their following Satan and performing any evil.  And, finally they will even sell their souls to Satan to earn big money and accumulate material wealth.

But, some Japanese who had studied spiritual matters concluded that when a man asked the God to make his wish come true, he should pray to the God that his wish has already come true or came true.  Or, he should perform a special way of breathing while praying to the God to make his wish come true while strongly imaging the wish coming true.  

Anyway, any material wish such as "Give me $1 million!" must not be heard by the God.  But, your spiritual wish such as "Help me help the poor with necessary money!" might be heard by the God who might give you  $1 million.

Indeed, the God is almighty and He can do what men cannot do.  And, if we have faith as large as a mustard seed, our wish, favorably spiritual or even humbly material, might come true.  Therefore, our wish to come true through our prayer to the God should be essentially spiritual.  And, we have to believe that our wish has already come true in the spirit world, since the God knows what we wish before we pray to the God.  And, if our wish is what the God approves or worth coming true, He must have already made it come true in the spirit world.  That is why we should pray for realization of our wish in the past tense: "Our wish to be helped in helping the poor with necessary money was already fulfilled!"  

Yet, we usually try to make our material wish come true following ways of Satan.  Satan seems to help us use dirty tricks or evil schemes so as to realize our material wish.  And, the more we are used to Satan's ways, the less we can effectively pray to the God.  Our prayer to the God should not be based on material desires.  But, our prayer for peace might be heard by the God.  

Finally, we should perform an effective breathing method while praying to the God for peace to save others, believing that peace on earth already came true in the spirit world.    

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Luke 8, King James Version

5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

"because his hour was not yet come" - Use Minds Not to Earn Money but to Realize Peace

 

A Pacific Ocean Coast around Tokyo

Use Minds Not to Earn Money but to Realize Peace

One has to use his mind to be successful in anything, like earning money.  Even a medical doctor uses his mind to cure a patient with his medical ability and knowledge in addition to applying medical devises and drugs.

So, it depends on one's mind whether he can succeed in anything or how much he will be successful.  Therefore, some people have trained themselves spiritually or in a religious manner to increase the power of their minds.  Some religious men even try to see the afterlife by enhancing their spiritual ability.  But, it is still unknown how the mind specifically works or functions in various situations.  So, some people might think that the best way is to sell their souls to Satan and be taught by Satan any tricks and dirty skills.    

However, Christ Jesus never taught people how to use their minds to earn big money or cure their diseases.  Instead, He taught people to love the God and the poor.  And, Christ Jesus told that only poor men could enter Heaven after their death and could live happy forever there.

Compared with any worldly happiness in this world, happiness in Heaven should be far greater beyond comparison than any happiness in this world.  The happy life the richest man in this world can enjoy should be nothing when compared with any humble happiness the least man in Heaven is allowed to enjoy.  In other words, the richest man in this world should look like a homeless in Heaven while others are enjoying life worth trillions of dollars or more.  

So, Christ Jesus actually taught the way to use one's mind to be ultimately successful in one's life including his life in this world and after death in the spirit world.  What is the ultimate success in one's life?  It is to be accepted in Heaven and given eternal happiness and life.  And, the God loves the poor and poverty, so that men must love poverty and the poor so as to be accepted in Heaven by the God.

One has to use his mind to be poor, which is a conclusion.  And, Christ Jesus told the way to become poor: Give your own money to the poor.  It means that Christ Jesus told the way to become ultimately happy, although in the afterlife: Give your own money to the poor. 

However, it might be a little difficult for men to understand why the God loves poverty and the poor.  Or, rather, it might be impossible for men to realize happiness in Heaven.  But, they can understand the worldly happiness that can be bought by big money which can be earned through Satan's teaching.  But, if you have the eyes with which you can see the afterlife or the spirit world including Heaven and hells, you will do anything to enter Heaven.

As people cannot see the afterlife or the spirit world including Heaven and hells, they are used to think that they have to earn money as much as possible while they are living in this world, since there is no assurance of existence of Heaven.  Or, they may think that even if there is Heaven, they might be accepted in Heaven no matter how rich they have become in this world.  And if there is no Heaven, it is stupid not try to be rich as much as possible while they are living in this world.  And, in the world full of this kind of people, there cannot be true peace.  Indeed, this world full of this kind of people should be corrupted and debased to any degree as we see the world now.      

Therefore, Christ Jesus never told how to use minds to earn money.  But, He seems to have actually taught how to use minds to cure diseases.  In any case of His healing patients, He seemed to have used his belief in God.  Actually, Christ Jesus told a man whose disease was cured by Him that his belief in God had saved him.  The sure way for spiritual healing or healing through supernatural power should use one's own belief in God.

This good lesson can apply to the current world situation.  Peace in the world cannot be achieved through economic power or military power that can be acquired with money.  But, we should use our mind with belief in the God.  The whole world today is sick.  And the best way to cure this disease of the earth is for people to use their minds praying for achievement of peace based on their belief in God.  That is why Mother Mary in her apparition told so many time to pray to the God as much as possible.

Indeed, without work and functions of minds, you cannot even pray to the God.  And, in this case, Satan should also feel at a loss.  But, if nobody can think that he should sell his soul to Satan to become materially happy, the world might not become more deteriorated to the degree that the whole world will be a hell.

Anyway, we have to thank the God since He has given us freedom to use our own minds in whatever ways we choose.

     

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John 7, King James Version

28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?

"Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught" - Suffer WWIII or Love Poverty

 

A Park around Tokyo

Suffer WWIII or Love Poverty

Love poverty and be poor by giving money to the poor under the belief that the poor can enter Heaven after death.  This is the core teaching of Christ Jesus.

But, Satan tells men to love money and wealth and be rich as much as possible by even selling your souls to Satan so as to enjoy rich life in this world.

Indeed, when you earn much money and accumulate wealth, you have to accept evil to larger extent as you acquire more wealth.  For example, you will accept one evil thing to earn $1,  You will accept 100 evil things to earn $100.  You will accept 10 thousands evil things to earn $10 thousands.  You will accept one million evil things to earn $1 millions.  And you will accept more than 100 million evil things to earn more than $100 million.

Finally, the society where people love and pursue money and wealth gets deteriorated and corrupted.  And, the elite in the society will be controlled by Satan.  Over presidents and prime ministers in nations and presidents and chairpersons of companies, Satan presides.  The whole world will be hells. 

Since the appearance of Christ Jesus 2,000 years ago, the world has become rich and richer.  The mankind has not set effective restrictions on activities to increase wealth and money, in order to foster love to the poor and restrict human desires.  In reality, even people today think that it is not bad or sinful or it is good or worth praising for a man to earn money and keep wealth as much as possible making his life richer.

After the Industrial Revolution starting in the later 18th century in England and expanding in all the world in subsequent centuries, GDP of the world has continued to skyrocket exponentially.  It also means the number of rich men has never ceased to increase at a rapid space.  The whole human world has draw apart from the teaching of Christ Jesus.  Indeed, WWI occurred in 1910s and WWII started in 1939.  But people brainwashed by Satan could not do away with wars.  Even today, the dark shadow of WWIII is hanging over the mankind.  It is highly possible that WWIII would be triggered in the early 21st century.  

Indeed, Mother Mary must have seen so many rich men falling into the hells through WWI and WWII, so that she has started to frequently appear to children and young people who have still pure minds in apparition and has given warnings to people that a decisive moment is coming when the God should punish the mankind. 

Of course, wars are started by men. But, if the God would not send His angels to stop wars, men should suffer more tragedies.  And, when a war that should lead to WWIII in the early 21st century happens and the God would not send His angels to stop the wat, WWIII should surely occur sooner or later.

The God has given warnings enough to the mankind through Mother Mary.  The God has allowed Christ Jesus to prevent occurrence of WWIII many times in almost 80 years after WWII, but there must be the limit in His patience.  We had better prepare for the coming WWIII. 

It means that we have to give up desires to be rich and cut the connection with Satan, so that we have to discover the true meaning of poverty and love the poor.  In other words, to prevent demise of our civilization, we have to love poverty and the poor.

So then, we will be able to solve every problem that our material civilization has generated in these 2,000 years, including world wars, climate changes, economic crises, etc.  Finally, we have to chose facing WWIII or loving poverty.        

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John 7, King James Version

26 But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

"But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment?" - A Doctor of Engineering believing in Supernatural Power

A Doctor of Engineering Believing in Supernatural Power

A Japanese professor in engineering found that everybody had supernatural power when he was a child when Uri Geller came to Japan in about 1970 to exhibit his supernatural power and skill to bend a spoon without physical power.

He made a survey and found that more than 1,000 children living around his university had the ability to bend a spoon with their supernatural power.  But as these children grew older, they accepted social commonsense that metal spoons cannot be easily bent with supernatural power.  As a result, they lost the ability.

The professor Kazumi Masaki (1916-2002) came to believe existence of supernatural power.  He also encountered phenomenon that a pearl appeared in food such as a canning or a plate.  In one occasion, alcohol appeared in a bottle and it continued to appear till serving 100 more people.  Even wooden statutes of gods of Buddhism and Shinto appeared nowhere to his room.  As Masaki was a doctor of engineering, he scientifically measured and checked such phenomena.   But, he had to admit such phenomena.  So, he came to believe spiritual power.  And, Masaki came to observe many miracles.

One day, his guardian angel told him that although he had been destined to die around the age of 60 or so, as he had done many hidden good things, his life duration would be extended.  Indeed, Masaki made about 3,000 inventions and was awarded patents by the Government.  But, he opened all the patents, allowing free use of them.  Indeed, such a professor is rare.

He further pursued spiritual matters to come to believe that he was once a priest in Atlantis.  But, more interestingly, a spirit told him that there was a planet with high civilization between Jupiter and Mars.  But as residents there failed to manage their energy system, the planet exploded and its fractures became satellites around Jupiter and Mars.  Yet, some of the residents had built UFOs before the tragedy and could escape the planet.  They reached the earth some 400 million years ago.  As at the time there were no civilized creatures on the earth, their souls got into other animals and plants.  After the mankind emerged started to evolve, their souls moved to the inside of the mankind.  He thought that was why there were so many mean men like animals among the mankind.

It is a little surprise that a doctor of engineering believed in existence of spirits and experienced many miracles such as advents of pearls, wooden statute of gods, etc.  And, souls of the mankind might have been originated in an unknown planet that had been once existed between Jupiter and Mars but vanished through explosion 400 million years ago.  But, it seems that we cannot deny that each man has hidden spiritual ability.

Christ Jesus had supernatural ability, too.  But, it is not only his supernatural power that established Christianity but his authority over mankind given by the God.  Indeed, the God is the God even in Jupiter and Mars.  But, we the human beings might have more supernatural power that we think we have, since our sols might have been originated outside the earth even if in this solar system.  

          

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Luke 7, King James Version

24 And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.