"when he had gone a little farther thence" - New Civilization based on Spiritual Power Needed

A Shinto Shrine around Tokyo at Night of a Winter Festival Day
 

New Civilization based on Spiritual Power Needed 

There are about 180,000 religious organizations with corporate status in Japan. Most of them are based on Shintoism, Buddhism, or Christianity.  Among them is the shintoism sect of the Imperial Family which was forced on the Japanese people in WWII.  Indeed, Shintoism is rooted in spiritual tradition of the Japanese people that had prevailed in Japan before Buddhism reaching Japan around the 6th century or before the Christian era in the world.  

It is said that a founder of a religious sect has the ability to cause a miracle and is possessed by the supernatural.  The founders of new religious bodies have legends that they healed the sick, predicted future incidents, or delivered words given by deities or major spiritual figures.  They sometimes could communicate with spirits of dead men.  Some of them could even bend spoons.

Some of the Japanese religious bodies and their founders admit that they can use energy filled in the universe.  Indeed, unknown dark energy in the whole universe accounts for 68.3 percent and unknown dark matters account for 26.8 percent, while ordinary matters known to us, such as atoms and molecules, account for only 4.9 percent of physical matters in the whole universe.       

From the beginning, how this whole universe or the material world was created is still unknown.  Some scientists say that there had been imaginary time before the creation of the universe or this universe was created from fluctuation of vacuum energy. 

(https://news.arizona.edu/story/dark-matter-dark-energy-focus-early-career-research-award)

I think that this whole universe or the material world was created by the God through His thinking or imagination power with energy in the spirit world.  The spirit world must have been created prior to the creation of this universe or material world.  And the dark energy and the dark matters in the universe should be their remnants.  

Even in the ultimately small scope of the materials or the atoms or in the elementary particle world, there are various strange phenomenon that cannot be scientifically fully explained.  Quantum physics cannot explain them fully.  It is thought that spiritual energy still works at such a fundamental level.  Every elemental particle such as electrons and photons should be accompanied by spiritual energy, since originally materials were formed through work of the spiritual energy.  Therefore in double-slit experiments where an elemental particle works and moves as a physical particle or a wave the effect of the spiritual energy is exposed.  The spiritual energy that allows existence of an elemental particle works as a wave, which works as fundamental power basis of an elemental particle.  Therefore when the spiritual energy wave shows interference, elemental particles should follow the effect.

(https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Youngs-Double-Slit-Experiment-when-Electron-Trajectories-are-not-ObservedSource-33_fig3_305768369)

The human world consists of materials and human mind work.  The human mind can be considered to be influenced by the spiritual energy which allows generation of the human mind through work of brain cells.  Furthermore, materials in the human world are influenced by the spiritual energy as stated above.  Therefore, miracles beyond the scope of science can happen if a man can manipulate the spiritual energy through his mind work.  So, it can be understood that founders of religious bodies or sects who claim that they have the spiritual ability or can use great spirits in the spirit world can cause miracles.

Even the faith healer Harry Edwards (1893 – 1976) wrote that he was supported by spiritual doctors living in the spirit world during his curing people.  Some Japanese faith healers or psychics also claim that great deities of Buddhism or Shintoism help them cure the sick.  As there is still spiritual energy remaining in this universe through which we can communicate with spirits in the spirit world their words can be understood.  

       

Yet, it is the God who created men:

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1)

And, as the God created men in His own image, He should give to men His power to manipulate the spiritual energy, since He has the power to use it in creating the material world.   

What's more, the Lord Jesus Christ could manipulate the spiritual energy like the God, and He promised to give the power to believers.

12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

Even pious followers of Buddhism or Shintoism are given such ability to use the spiritual power.  Believers in the God of Christ Jesus should be given such spiritual power.  Or, from the beginning, men should have been given the ability to use the psychic power like Harry Edwards or Uri Geller.

So, by faithfully believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, we must have the ability to use the spiritual energy like faith healers.  

Indeed, the God had used His power of thinking or imagination to manipulate the spiritual energy in creating the universe.  The Lord Jesus Christ used the same power in His mission.  Therefore, pious men should be able to use the same power through prayer.  Our civilization should be rebuilt again on this principle.

However, Satan can also manipulate the spiritual energy as the Vatican is afraid, we should be determined to fight against Satan even spiritually like the Lord Jesus Christ.   

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Mark 1, King James Version
17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.
19 And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.

"shall he turn to the Lord their God" - A Japanese Physician with Psychic Power

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo
 

A Japanese Physician with Psychic Power

There are reportedly hundreds of professional faith healers in Japan. When putting the keyword of "psychic healing" in Google research in Japanese, about 4 million sites are returned.  Indeed, spiritualism has prevailed in Japan.

One of them was Toshiko Yamazaki who was born in 1922 and died about two decades ago.  She became a medical doctor as she had heard a spiritual voice of a deity of Japanese Buddhism encouraging her to become a medical doctor when she had been an elementary school girl.  So, she became a physician with psychic power.  She practiced modern medical services while sometimes performing psychic healing or faith healing.  She studied and respected Harry Edwards of England (1893 – 1976), a notable faith healer.

It was when she became about 30 years old that she was clearly aware of her psychic power.  When diagnosing a patient, she felt a pain in a part of her own body that corresponded to the affected area of the patient.  She found that illness was caused by evil spirits as well as by casual agents.  She applied modern medicines to ordinary illness but her psychic power or faith healing to illness caused by evil spirits.

She also scientifically studied medical effects of far infrared rays and germanium stones.  But she also enhanced her psychic power to launch a religious body based on Japanese esoteric Buddhism.  In her faith healing, she said that she was guided by a high-level spirit while receiving advices from the spirit.  She moved her hands on an affected area of a patient as if she had been cutting and taking it out of the body of the patient, following guidance of the spirit.      

As her reputation was televised in 1960s and 1970s, many patients visited her clinic in Nara Prefecture.  She also performed distant psychic healing with possessions of a patient at her hand while the patient was far away from her clinic.

But, her own son, in his 40s, suddenly became a nephritic patient in 1990s and started to receive a dialysis treatment in other hospitals.  Unfortunately, due to poor handling by medical staffs there he almost accidentally died.  She wrote a book to point out mistakes of a primary doctor, nurses, etc.  Her book contributed improvement of dialytic therapy in Japan.   

Dialysis patients cannot live long, 10 to 20 years shorter than healthy people, while they have to receive a dialysis treatment a few times per week all through their lives.  Therefore her son planned to have an organ transplant in China.  Yet, before he flew to China, he fell to death due to sudden deterioration of his kidney conditions in a hospital nearby.

It is a tragedy that her psychic healing power could not work on her son while she had cured many patients.  But from another point of view, it might be God's will to stop her son from receiving kidney transplant in China.  In these decades, there have been various reports on unethical or criminal ways that China has promoted organ transplants.  They have reportedly collected human organs from criminals on death raw.  They took big money from foreign transplant patients visiting China for transplant surgeries.  It is said that those Chinese criminals on death raw to have their organs taken include followers of the Falun Gong, Uighurs, other dissident activists.  So, the God might stop her son to go to China for kidney transplant. 

Anyway modern medications and faith healing should advance more so as to heal dialysis patients.

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Luke 1, King James Version
12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

    

"to them gave he power to become the sons of God" - How to Cause a Paranormal Phenomena

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

How to Cause a Paranormal Phenomena 

A Japanese yoga teacher, Masaharu Naruse (1946 - ), achieved levitation in his training room in Tokyo around 1990, which was taken into photograph.  He also succeeded in walking in air around a lake in Tibet, which was also taken into photograph.

(https://twitter.com/hayashinonakade/status/713880416294318080)

(https://search.yahoo.co.jp/image/search?p=%E6%88%90%E7%80%AC%E9%9B%85%E6%98%A5%E3%80%80%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B4%E3%83%A0&aq=-1&oq=&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp_as#2332ae5c778a691ed2f450bbda141507)
    

According to Naruse, these performances could be realized through his mental work based on yoga principles.  He did not use any tricks, tools, etc. and was not supported by anybody.  He just used his mind to float and walk in air.  However, it required many years of hard training of yoga to have his mind work so as to achieve levitation.  But, nowadays Naruse has stopped performing levitation, since he wanted to concentrate on spiritual training through yoga principles.   

A Japanese Qigong master, Kenjiro Naka (1956 - ), met some Chinese Qigong masters when he was young and learned Qigong in China several decades ago.  A Chinese Qigong master instantly froze water in a glass held in the hand of Naka.  The master also moved a coin in the hand of Naka into an ice block in a refrigerator.  He also sent Naka spinning and flying without any movement of his body, while Naka was holding his little finger.  After coming back to Japan, Naka has launched and managed his own Qigong classroom.

These paranormal phenomenon are all caused by specific men through their mental work like spoon bending by Uri Geller.  They have such ability as innate ability or acquired it through hard training.  But why do man's mental or spiritual work make possible such paranormal phenomenon? 

The human mind is generated through work of the soul on the human brain.  But, the human mind can also affect the soul which is linked with the spirit world.  So, when a man dies, his mind stops its work in the brain, and the soul leaves the brain to work in the spirit world with a spiritual mind and body.  Yet, while being alive in this world, a man can make his soul use spiritual energy through his mind or mental work, so that spiritual energy can work in this world, superseding physical laws such as gravity and thermal dynamics.  Additionally spiritual energy can work in the brain in others, controlling their physical movement.  Even, it can work on a sick organ of the human body to cure it, realizing psychic or faith healing.     

From the beginning, this material world or this whole universe was created by the God who used His power of thinking or imagination using spiritual energy.  Therefore, man's mental or spiritual work can also connect to and use spiritual energy.  As a result, such a man can perform levitation. 

But what mental or spiritual work is needed?  To find it, a man must perform hard training in yuga, Qigong, esoteric Buddhism, etc.  And, extremely pure faith in the God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Mother Mary, etc. would bring this ability to use spiritual energy to prayers, so that it is said that some monks or nuns achieved levitation, etc.

Naruse wrote some books on his experiences to acquire such ability.  He advised to abandon human desire and expand the scope of one's consciousness, so that one can reach the high level of spiritual or mental work.  He also recommend to stop eating meat and fish, since one must have compassion to animals, birds, and fish to be killed for human appetite.

Indeed, spiritual energy can even destroy a man or a country, since its power is so huge.  The Lord Jesus Christ said that one could move a mountain if he had pure faith.  What is more, a little child without doubt can bend a spoon and talk with a tree.  But, it is difficult for an adult to believe that he can use spiritual energy through his mind so as to move a mountain, make himself float against gravity, etc.

Finally, paranormal phenomenon or miracles are possible, but to realize them, one's mind must be at the very high level, and keeping it in such a state should be very difficult.  That is why material civilization without reliance on spiritual power has developed so much with science and technology that require no pure faith or mindsets at the very high level.  In this meaning, our material civilization has got debased and rotten too much. 

We should focus on spiritual meaning of the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, so that we can acquire spiritual energy and live peacefully without reliance on modern technology.           

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John 1, King James Version
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

"the Spirit like a dove descending upon him" - Holy Geniuses Not to Rejoice Satan

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

Holy Geniuses Not to Rejoice Satan

The Lord Jesus Christ gave a warning sometimes to His followers.  It is because He knew that He and His followers were in fight against their enemies under Satan.  He compared His enemies to dogs and swine.

6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. (Matthew 7)

But how can we know good people from those like dogs and swine?  Probably we can know who are such dog/swine-like people by giving holy gifts or pearls.  But, it is too late to defend us when they start to trample holy gifts or pearls and rip us to pieces. 

Yet, everybody can identify dogs and swine by seeing them.  Inherent intuition can tell us the difference.  Conversely dog/swine-like people can see who is a follower of the Lord Christ Jesus.  And they should not refrain from attacking the follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.  It is because they have already sold their souls to Satan.

Anyway, this world of the Lord Jesus Christ tells that His followers are in danger of being attacked by servants of Satan, since they hate what is holy.  So, the more you have holy things and holy gifts given by the God, the more you are in danger of suffering attacks from Satan and its servants.

But, if a man had genius in art, literature, sports, business, etc., he would surely turn it to money or make money by using it.  It means that he gives his genius to Satan for money.  Indeed, this handling of his genius is against the word of the Lord Jesus Christ.  So, a pious genius in any field should not use his genius to become famous and make big money through his success, rejoicing Satan.  In other word, it can be assumed that the most excellent artist, writer, sport man, or business man exists somewhere in the world without commercial success, provided that he has faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

If such an excellent and pious man tried to openly exercise his genius to make money, dog/swine-like people should attack him, following Satan to soil his genius given by the God.  So, a pious and excellent genius should hide himself from the mainstream of society.  Therefore, the most excellent work of art is never performed; the most excellent work of literature is never written, and the most excellent sport record is never reported.  It is for not rejoicing Satan.      

Conversely, if a genius sold his genius for money, he would turn to a dog or a pig.  In this context, the modern civilization based on capitalism and commercialism is so sinful.  There are too many second-class geniuses who have sold their gifts for money and come to attack true geniuses.  Satan must be behind them.   

Finally, if you have genius in art, literature, sports, business, etc., you should hide it so that Satan would not attack you, using money as bait.

Anyway, in Heaven in the afterlife, there are many spirits of geniuses exercising their geniuses to rejoice the God.   

 

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Mark 1, King James Version
9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

”they both were now well stricken” - Those Who Do Not Need the God and Those Who Need the God

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

Those Who Do Not Need the God and Those Who Need the God

The Lord Jesus Christ said about something that was plain to everybody but whose connection to truth nobody could see: 

31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.  (Luke 5)

Truly those who are materially happy do not need the God; but those who are not materially happy need the God.  Rather materially happy people revere money that is another form of Satan, so that they do not need the God.

To become materially happy a man has to sell his soul to Satan.  And a man who is materially unhappy is a victim of materially happy people.  But those materially unhappy people usually want to become materially happy, but they have failed to sell appropriately their souls to Satan, so that they have remained being unhappy.  And, as they stick to the wish to become materially happy, they think that they are unhappy.  It is their sins that they want to be materially happy.  

But, if they changed their minds, they would abandon the wish.  In other word, if they repented, they would be free from the thought that they are unhappy.  Extremely, if they came to pursue spiritual happiness, they could not be unhappy any more.  Of course, those materially happy could also be spiritually happy if they repent and stop selling their souls to Satan.

Put simply, both those who worry about their material unhappiness and those who boast of their material happiness are sinners.  In the holy and spiritual point of view, both of these groups of people are sinners.  It is because they do not deny Satan.  Indeed, they should repent to hate Satan and money.  For this reason, the Lord Jesus Christ came to the human world.            

But everybody becomes sick someday in his life.  So, there is none that is never sick in his life.  And every body sells his soul to Satan to seek for money sometime in his life.  So, there is none that never sells his soul to Satan.  In other word, every body can be a sinner sometime in his life.  Finally everybody needs to repent, following the Lord Jesus Christ.  

The underlying issue is that everybody needs money, but money is another form of Satan.  To get money one has to sell his soul to Satan, which is a sin.  It means that the Lord Jesus Christ came to the human world to save everybody from Satan, so that he will not be a sinner.  But, we have to first repent.  That is why it is not easy for us to be saved by the Lord Jesus Christ.  

Especially those who have fully sold their souls to Satan do not want to be saved by the Lord Jesus Christ.  They want more money which is Satan.  It is like a sick man who wants more poison, believing poison is a medicine due to Satan's teaching.  

Anyway, you should go to physicians who have sold their souls to Satan  

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Luke 1, King James Version

5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

"Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon" - Angels or Aliens to John Lennon in 1974?

 

New Year's Visit to a Shinto Shrine around Tokyo

Angels or Aliens to John Lennon in 1974?

At the end of 2023, the Japanese public broadcaster presented a story of the Beatles as a revolutionary band after WWII.  The Beatles contributed to movement for freedom and democracy in East Europe, leading to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union.  It was impressive, but the program never shed light on personal and unique experiences of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

In November of 1974, Jon Lennon met Uri Geller and talked about his encounter with mysterious little bug-like aliens in his bedroom in a condominium building in New York while Yoko was sleeping in the bed.  The aliens and John Lennon did not engage conversation; they pushed back John Lennon from the door to the inside with psychic power; and he did not recall anything after the incident to find himself lying in the bed next to Yoko.  But, in his hand there was an egg-like oval metallic stone given by the aliens.  John Lennon also claimed that he had seen a UFO with another woman from his room in the sky of New York.  John Lennon was tragically killed in front of the condominium building in 1980, but Uri Geller is still alive as a spoon-bending psychic.    

John Lennon gave the oval stone to Uri Geller who must still keep it. 

(https://www.urigeller.com/alien-visitations-what-john-lennon-told-uri-geller-before-his-death/)

There are many people in the world who have claimed that they saw UFOs or encountered with aliens from the space; Even the U.S. Navy made public video on UFOs in 2020.  There is a theory that the miracle with the Holy Mary in Fatima in 1917 was caused by a UFO.  

However, the mankind has now no ability to find out and make clear the issues of UFOs and advanced aliens.  We can at most send men to the moon.   

    

There is a possibility that advanced aliens are now alive somewhere in hundred billion galaxies each of which consists of hundred billion solar systems.  Some of them might discover the earth to send explorers with UFOs.  However, the mankind has now no ability to cope with it.  What's more, aliens and UFOs seem to have nothing to do with our death and life.  We had better promote our civilization to the level of assumed aliens without being charmed with UFO/alien stories.

Besides, the God whom the mankind has learned through the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible is the creator of this whole universe.  Therefore, aliens are also under the God.  As long as we have sound faith in the God, we do not have to be afraid of aliens, even if they have really come to the earth.

Yet, there can be aliens who mastered the way to handle spiritual energy, so that they may be able to use UFOs working with spiritual energy.  And, they may have the ability to see the future.  So, they might have sent their members to John Lennon in 1974 to give him a warning on his future tragic death in 1980.  In that case, John Lennon should have consulted with more religious people such as a Pope.

Anyway, the God may use even aliens to give a warning to a man such as John Lennon.       

In this context, we should note that the Holy Mary has been sent by the God to the human world many times since Fatima in 1917.  Psychic aliens might know the future tragedies of the mankind, but they must refrain from interference, since the God has always used the Holy Mary; it is not their place to do something.

So, we have to stop blasphemy in respecting money.  Even John Lennon never tried to be the richest man in the world.  Then, the God will protect us from malicious aliens.

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Matthew 1, King James Version
1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;
5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;

"Behold, I send my messenger before thy face" - Heal all Manner of Sickness and all Manner of Disease

 

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Heal all Manner of Sickness and all Manner of Disease

When our Lord Jesus Christ sent His Disciples to villages and towns He gave them power to suppress evil spirits and heal any sickness:

And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. (Matthew 10)

Indeed. the fight against evil spirits and Satan is one of the main theme of the Gospels.  But. healing sickness is an issue more close to our hearts.  In every day's life, health is the basic condition for happiness in any society.  

But how did our Lord Jesus Christ heal sickness?  He did not use modern medications, medical devices, and medical drugs.  He used psychic power to comfort the sick.  So, He should have taught His disciples how to use psychic power, but the details are not described in the Gospels.  Maybe the authors of the Gospels were not among those Disciples, or this way to use psychic power was kept secret for some reason.  

Even today, there are psychics who have the ability to heal the sick; they use their psychic or spiritual power to achieve miracle healing like Christ Jesus.  In addition, it is well known that water in the holy spring at Lourdes cures the sick.  The Vatican never denies possibility of such miracle healing.  But, how does this kind of miracle healings work? 

It should work through spiritual energy.  Every material in this world is made through work of spiritual energy.  Therefore, a psychic who can use spiritual energy can work on the human body to cure a disease.  Then, how can such psychics use spiritual energy like Christ Jesus?

The answer is "through faith and prayers."  Even in the modern medical science, it is admitted that the state of the human mind can affect a state of disease.  Our mind can activate or suppress DNA and genes in our bodies.  Even a laughing patient with diabetes shows a decrease in his blood glucose level.  Therefore, the sates of our minds when we concentrate our minds for prayer should be linked with spiritual energy, so that spiritual energy should work as we wish to cure a sick man.

But the faith in this case does not necessarily mean the faith in the God of Christ Jesus.  A Buddhist monk with faith in a deity of Buddhism can use spiritual energy.  Even an atheist who believes that there is mysterious energy in the universe may be able to use spiritual energy while he thinks that he is using mysterious energy in the universe.  Anyway, it is unknown to others in what state a man's mind is.  As long as the state of a man's mind is suitable for linking with spiritual energy, he can use it regardless of his belief in any religion.

However, those who believe in our Lord Jesus Christ and His God should be able to easily link with spiritual energy.  And, such spiritual energy can easily penetrate into human cells of the sick man's body to correct the sick cells to a normal state and cure the disease.           

Anyway, you should be convinced that everything including our bodies in this material world is ultimately basically made of spiritual energy, and our minds in a specific state can link with spiritual energy.  So, it is really mortifying that the Gospels do not describe in what states of minds the Disciples of Christ Jesus were.

However, a girl's pure and sincere belief in Christ Jesus and the Holy Mother made spiritual energy work in Lourdes in 1858 to generate a holy spring with healing power.  Ideally, the whole world should be full of holy springs.       



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Mark 1, King James Version
1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

"now shall the prince of this world be cast out"- Critical Years after a Tragic Period to Come So Soon

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Critical Years after a Tragic Period to Come So Soon

Before Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727), Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772), and Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) participated actively in each field, London had suffered the great tragedy:   

The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within the centuries-long Second Pandemic, a period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics that originated in Central Asia in 1331 (the first year of the Black Death), and included related diseases such as pneumonic plague and septicemic plague, which lasted until 1750.　(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London)

But, theses geniuses in science, Christian mysticism or spiritualism, and philosophy, respectively, were surely alive between 1724 and 1727.   they were all associated with England: Newton, a British; Swedenborg wrote almost all of his books in London; and Kant were highly influenced by a British philosopher in forming his view on difference between rational thoughts and belief in God.

After the era of these great scholars, the human civilization started to undergo the scientific revolution and the industrial revolution.  Through the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, science and technology never ceased to develop through James Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein, DARPA (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for the Internet, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for PCs, and other AI engineers. 

But, Christian mysticism or spiritualism also never ceased to progress through appearances of many mediums, prevalence of spiritual communications or seances, and supernatural power booms through the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.  Even in Japan today the spiritual business has a 10 billion dollar-sized market.

Yet, study on the spirit world based on Kant's theory has not yet started.  The ability to understand the spirit world is different from the ability to understand the nature, mathematics, or the human world.  To understand the God, a man has to have unique ability like the mind to choose good over evil or the God over money.  

Anyway, if the Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, had been more destructive, Newton, Swedenborg, and Kant might have lost chances to contribute to the human civilization.  In this context, the historical fact that all the three lived between 1724 and 1727 is symbolic.

Now 300 years later after the above period, other critical people might survive the recent corona-pandemic.  Indeed, it will be 2024 from tomorrow.  You had better think about the God in a way different from that for rationally making money or pursuing material happiness.       

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John 12, King James Version
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.

"He that is not with me is against me" - The Holy Mystery of the Heart

 

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The Holy Mystery of the Heart

Our Lord Jesus Christ was aware that we wanted to eat fully delicious foods but He thought that it was absurd.

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? (Matthew 6)

What gives life to our body is not the brain but the heart that pushes blood to the brain and other parts of the body.  The blood is created in the bones; it is not generated in the heart.  The blood carries oxygen and other nutrition to the brain, etc.  The heart works without interruption while we are alive, repeating expansion and contraction 100,000 times a day to circulate the blood flow.

So, what gives life to our bodies is the hearts and blood.   According a Japanese heart specialist, even the hearts of old men aged 90 or more look fresh.  The heart working 100,000 times a day without interruption never gets old.  But its cells cannot be reproduced like brain cells.  The heart and the brain are still mysterious.   

In addition, in any languages, the word meaning the heart also means the mind or the center of sentiment, although the brain is the center of consciousness.

The heart takes oxygen and nutrition from the blood, too.  However, it should work with the spiritual energy.  Those whose hearts were transplanted from donners sometimes find that their tastes have changed to those of donners.  The heart should not have memory, but the spirit of the donner should come to his/her heart transplanted in another man/woman from the spirit world, influencing the soul and mind of the person who underwent the heart transplant.    

So, the heart must be a gate for a spirit to the human body, and it turns to be a soul in the brain to generate a mind.  With the spirit, the spiritual energy should come into the heart, so that due to the spiritual energy it can work repeating expansion and contraction 100,000 times a day as long as a man lives.

The brain and the heart are the places closely linked to spiritual energy, so that their cells should not be reproduced and changed.  This linkage should need stable physical conditions.  In religious rituals like in Christianity, procedures have been fixed from long time ago without frequent changes.  The place with linkage to the spirit world should be conservative.

So, it cannot be said that everything liberal and progressive is good or holy.  I am afraid that the heart of the U.S. is losing its linkage to the spirit world.   

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Matthew 12, King James Version
26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

"how much more will he clothe you" - Think about Life in the Afterlife

 

A Shinto Shrine around Tokyo

Think about Life in the Afterlife

Jesus Christ said that those who believed in Him would never die, since they believed in the life, namely Him, so that they should live even though they got into the state of death:

25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? (John 11)

Therefore, Christians believed that they would enter Heaven after death in this world.  But as the time wend by, people came to lose their faith in Heaven or the afterlife.  Especially when the science revolution and the Industrial Revolution started in England in the 18th century, materialism started to prevail and people chose material happiness more than happiness in Heaven after death in this world.

It is ironic that Isaac Newton (1642-1727) who was a diligent researcher of the Bible launched various scientific theories to promote modern science, which led to development of materialism.  But, in the same period, our Lord Jesus Christ appeared to Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), promising him to show the afterlife while living in this world, and Swedenborg wrote many books on his experiences in the afterlife or the spirit world.  His work led to later development of spiritualism.  As Swedenborg died in London, his influence was strongly seen in England.           

In the period from the late 19th century prior to WWI, spiritualism grew so much in England and France, so that necromantic parties or seances prevailed.  This trend has continued to date.  But, it has not led to renovation of Chistianity and Christian churches.  Yet, during WWI, the Holy Mother appeared in Fatima, Portugal, to give warnings about tragic future of the mankind, and She continued to make her apparition in Garabandal, Medjugorje, etc. while the material civilization has further grown through WWII, electronic revolution, Internet revolution, and AI revolution.

Finally we have come to this early 21st century, but we have not yet seen another Swedenborg or Mary apparition while WWIII seems to come closer with the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and abnormal weather has been intensified with global warning.

For any individual, his own death is more important than collapse of the human civilization.  But as he is so observed to his material live, pursuing material happiness, he must lose interest in the fate of the mankind or the human civilization.  Modern materialism based on modern technology driven further by computers and AI makes people forget about words of Christ Jesus and coming fate in the afterlife or the spiritual world.   

Put simply, the God has sent warnings many times to the mankind through the Holy Mother, Swedenborg, etc., while Satan has brainwashed the mankind with money as material civilization has further developed.  But, as it is now 2,000 years after Christ Jesus in the human world and 4,000 years after Abraham, the hour of destiny should come.  WWIII would happen and great natural disasters should ensue in the 21st century if our repentance is not enough.

We have to think about why our lord Jesus Christ emphasized the afterlife.  Life in the afterlife in the spirit world should be more important than life in this world.  It should be because those allowed to enter into Heaven are given eternal life and happiness while others fall into the heals to be ultimately exterminated with Satan by the God.  

We should stop pursuing money and promoting material civilization while being brainwashed by Satan in the form of money.  We should study the Bible like Newton and explore the spirit world like Swedenborg.  And, we have to build spiritual civilization rather than material civilization.  Then, we may be allowed to survive to the 22nd century and for another 2,000 years.  If the human world can continue, our spirits in the afterlife or the spirit world in the future should be rejoiced more.  

Anyway, the spirit world is said to be another face of the human world.  Our faith in this world should help us in the afterlife.  But, rich men who have sold their souls to Satan should not be helped in the afterlife.  To improve our spiritual status, we have to read the Bible and think more about the words of Christ Jesus but not about money.       

       

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Luke 12, King James Version
25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

"which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?" - A Japanese Psychic Saw Satan in Putin

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A Japanese Psychic Saw Satan in Putin 

According to a survey by an American research company, about 60% of the Japanese answered to a question about religion that they believe in no religion.  But according to a survey by the Japanese government, Japanese who believe in shintoism (the religion unique to Japan where gods in the nature are revered) account for about 49% and those who believe in Buddhism account for about 46%; most of the Japanese believe in shintoism or Japanese Buddhism; but although Christians in Japan account for about 1% of the whole population, almost everybody enjoys Christmas and show respect to Christ Jesus.

The Japanese culture has been based on respect to and belief in deities of shintoism even before Buddhism was officially imported into Japan from China through the Korean peninsula in the 6th century; shintoism and Buddhism have penetrated so deep into Japanese minds that Japanese do not especially realize that they are believers in shintoism or Buddhism in the sense of Christianity or Judaism.  But, every year about 65 million Japanese visit shinto shrines or Buddhist temples to celebrate a new year in early January or at the end of the year.  It is part of social custom and not a practice of religion such as Christians' going to churches every week.  

Japanese usually do not believe in any specific deities of shintoism or Buddhism, and they seldom join rituals of any religions except on special occasions such as wedding, funeral rites, new year celebration, etc., so that they would answer that they have no religion (like Christianity) to religion surveys, since they do not perform regularly any religious rituals like Christians going to churches every Sunday.  Indeed, shitoism and Japanese Buddhism do not require their followers, except professional priests or monks of the religions, to follow strict disciplines like Christianity, etc.  So, Japanese think they do not belong to any religions in the global sense.   

But, their lives and social environments are highly influenced by essence of shintoism and Buddhism.  Japanese daily use the word of "kami-sama hotoke-sama" (gods or Buddha) as holy entities or deities having spiritual or super-natural power to be respected.  But, as there are so many deities of shintoism and Buddhism, Christianity has no specific appeals to the Japanese.  Japanese are living surrounded by too many deities and religious spirits, so that spiritualness of Christianity is not needed in their daily lives.  Yet, as the modern civilization is based on technology, science, democracy, etc. generated in Europe based on Christianity, most of the Japanese admit power of Christianity.  Besides, the current Japanese constitution was based on a draft made by America after WWII, so that the constitution of Japan is highly influenced by Christianity. 

So, the structure of the nation and society of Japan is based on Christianity like other G7 countries, but spiritualism based on shintoism and Japanese Buddhism is at the core of Japanese minds.  Therefore, a new religion where a certain deity of shintoism or Buddhism is adopted as its main god is sometimes built.  There are about 80,000 independent religious bodies/organizations in each category of shinto and Buddhism systems.  Therefore, Japan is filled with spiritual influences of shintoism and Buddhism.

That is why Japanese psychics see deities of shintoism or Buddhism and hear their words.  In their view on the spirit world, the spirit of Christ Jesus is just one of great spirits at the highest level in the spirit world.  Some believe that there is the supreme deity of shintoism or Buddhism above those highest spirits such as Christ Jesus.

Anyway, there are many psychics in Japan associated with shintoism or Buddhism.  And they claim that they can see deities, angels, and even evil spirits and Satan through their psychic eyes.

One of them recently wrote in his blog in the internet that he could see Satan on Putin, Russian President.  Satan would force Putin to further continue the war in Ukraine.  It is so dangerous.  Therefore we have to pray that Satan will leave Putin.  He recommended to chant a spell of mantra: "Nomakusanmanda Bazaradansenda Makarosyada Sowatayauntarata Kanman," to drive Satan out of Putin. 

In any religions, the concepts of the supreme god, holy spirits, and evil spirits as well as Satan are common.  We have to accept various interpretations on the spirit world.  What is important is that people admit the difference between good and evil, namely good spirits and evil spirits.

As for me, it is so impressive that when Swedenborg, an 18th century great psychic, met a mysterious figure who promised him to show the afterlife or the spirit world, the figure told Swedenborg that he was the creator of the universe, God, and Christ.  Indeed, Christ Jesus must be above any deities of shintoism and Buddhism, although some Japanese believe their deities are above Christian deities such as Christ Jesus.            

Anyway, there must be the God who created the human world, this material world including the whole universe, and the spirit world. 

The mankind should believe in the God through any religions.

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Luke 12, King James Version
24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

"because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?" - Foolishness of God vs. Men's Wisdom

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

Foolishness of God vs. Men's Wisdom

One of the most impressive passages in the Bible is as follows:

25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. ( Corinthians 1)

Those who are called fools following God's teaching are actually wiser than those who are called wise men in this world.  Those who look weak following God's teaching are stronger than those with worldly strength such as physical power and economic power.  In other word, those who look foolish and weak from a point of view in this world are in essence wiser and stronger from a point of view in the spirit world than those who are wise and strong in the human world.

According to teaching by our Lord Jesus Christ, everybody goes to the spirit world after death in this world, and money has no power in the spirit world or the afterlife.  But those who have lived poor and faithful lives while accumulating wealth in Heaven through their righteous lives and good conducts are paid in the spirit world.  So, believers would not seek for opportunities in this world where big money can be earned.  But others who know that big money makes them materially happy and strong despise those who do not try to get big money as fools.  Yet, those despised as fools in this world know that they would be accepted in Heaven where eternal lives and happiness should be given while rich men should fall into the hells in the spirit world.     

Therefore, fools in this world are wise in the afterlife.  The weak in this world are stronger in the afterlife.   

To understand this truth is what people should learn in the afterlife or the spirit world.  So, any religion should teach this lesson.  The essence in any religions should be that there is afterlife in the spirit world; money has no power in afterlife in the spirit world; and physical strength is meaningless there.  

In this world it is said that money and knowledge are power to make people happy.  However, it is love and faith in the God that make people accepted in Heaven in the afterlife or the spirit world.  Physical strength is meaningless in the afterlife or the spirit world where no spirits or souls have physical bodies

Indeed, it is said that one can realize anything he wants through thinking or power of imagination in the spirit world.  But, love and faith in the God should be obtained and formed while living in the human world.  It seems too late to realize after death that love and faith in the God are keys to enter into Heaven.  That must be why some people have to be born again in the human world.  In this context, this human world may well be called the place for ascetic training.      

Indeed, according to a spirit in the afterlife who had been a prince of a samurai clan in a territory around Tokyo some 400 years ago and was invoked in a seance or spiritual communications, she had to continue spiritual training in the after life.  As she had been a Japanese woman in the samurai era, she was not helped and guided in the afterlife by Christian spirits but by a great spirit in Japanese shintoism.  She said that she was taught to abandon adhesion to the human world.

Therefore, in any religions in this world in any periods, truth in the spirit world or the afterlife is same.

Material happiness or greatness in this world means nothing in the afterlife or the spirit world.  Even knowledge and wisdom in the human world turn to nothing in the afterlife or the spirit world.  Only the ability to feel and accept the teaching of the God counts.   

So, the more you look foolish in terms of commonsense in the human world, the more you have a chance to be accepted in Heaven after death.  Be foolish rather than being too cute by half.   

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Mark 12, King James Version
20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

"the blind and dumb both spake and saw" - Be Humble and Moneyless like Little Children

Tokyo Sky-Tree Tower and Mt. Fuji

Be Humble and Moneyless like Little Children

What are conditions to be accepted in Heaven?  There are the following descriptions on this issue in the Gospel (Matthew 18).

18 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 

Conversely, there are too many arrogant people in this world.  The more a man gets money, the more arrogant the man becomes.  But, a little child without money is humble.  His judgment is not biased due to influence of money.  He must see power and wisdom of the God in everything.  And as overwhelmed by God's wisdom and power, he cannot help but become humble.      

So, the one who feels and finds God's power in everything to become humble as much as possible is accepted in Heaven.  In other word, the most humble one looking the smallest one in this world will become as great as possible in Heaven.  Therefore, rich men are too small to be accepted in Heaven.

By the way, historically many emperors, kings, etc. tried to obtain eternal life.  In quest for eternal life, they asked scholars, religious people, wise men, etc. about the way to obtain eternal life.  They also sent expedition teams afar off to search for secret medicines for longevity.  But, the Son of God Jesus Christ taught poor people that eternal life could be obtained if they would become humble like little children who had no money.

So, it is no use for rich men to spend big money in their quest for the way to obtain longevity and eternal life.  They have to abandon their wealth so as to keep no money like small children.

The mankind has developed material civilization so much to date in their quest for happiness, longevity, and eventually eternal life.  But, to achieve their ultimate goal, obtaining eternal life, they have to abandon material civilization.  Indeed, little children are useless in developing, maintaining, and keeping material civilization.

However, little children before being brainwashed by material civilization sometimes show supernatural or psychic power.  They can bend a spoon by psychic power, speak with spirits of plants, see future incidents, recall their previous lives, etc.  Indeed, little children are near the spirit world.

Therefore, to obtain eternal life we have to die as poor and humble men like little children.  It means that eternal life is not what can be obtained in this world.  It is given to us after our death.  Eternal life is in the afterlife or in the spirit world.

As this teaching of the Son of God Jesus Christ is so impressive and truthful, most of Europeans from Roman citizens to contemporary European citizens have had faith in Christianity.  That is why Christianity has never faded away from Europe.

However, Satan has almost succeeded in making Christianity powerless nowadays.  Indeed, most of people of today would choose money in this world over the teaching of Christ Jesus related to the afterlife or the spirit world.  They are arrogantly neglecting or suppressing the poor who are as poor as little children.

We have to truly seek for eternal life, abandoning material wealth and money that are useless for entering into Heaven where we are given eternal life.    

                   

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Matthew 12, King James Version
22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

"till he send forth judgment unto victory" - From Science/Engineering to Psychic World

Farewell to Autumn Around Tokyo

From Science/Engineering to Psychic World

A Japanese doctor in engineering named Kazumi Masaki (1916-2002) made 3,000 inventions in his life.  Indeed, he was a major player behind the scene in industrial development of Japan after WWII.  But, he was not a simple engineer who worked in Osaka University for 40 years as head of work shop center of the engineering faculty.

Masaki wrote that he could put his brain in the state of emitting the alpha or theta waves through a special method of breathing.  In the alpha wave state, a man can make an invention; in the theta wave state, a man can cause a miracle, according to Masaki.

He mastered this method when he was a teenager.  He lay down on the floor, taking in air to the lower abdomen for seven seconds, holding the breath for seven second, and exhaling the air in seven seconds.  He continued this way of breathing for an hour in his home every day.  Then, suddenly one day he saw bright light in darkness and got some supernatural ability such as future prediction.  But as someone said to him that such breading would make him die an early death, he stopped the practice, but its effect seemed to continue.     

Before WWII, he entered into Osaka University to learn in various academic disciplines.  After graduation, he remained in the university for further study and finally became a staff.  Although he was offered a faculty position, he did not accept it but worked as a technical staff member.  

Masaki filed 3,000 patent applications in his lifetime, but he did not pay registry fees for most of inventions after patent approval.  Indeed, he married a daughter of a rich man so that he did not have to earn big money.  Therefore, manufacturers could use his inventions for free, which brought new energy mainly to the electric and electronics industry in Japan after WWII. 

Masaki did not believe in existence of spirits and the afterlife till he saw Uri Geller performing spoon bending in a Japanese TV program around 1970.  He measured a spoon used in a test of supernatural power of a Japanese boy using his psychic power to bend a spoon in a TV studio.  Superficially the spoon did not look being bent, but Masaki found that it was slightly warped as Masaki used a special measurement tool.  It shocked Masaki, and he started to study supernatural power and psychic power.  Then various miracles happened around him such as apparition of a wooden statue of deity of Buddhism.  The, he wrote several books on his experiences, also making inventions to enhance psychic power.  

According to Masaki, the mankind made three evil inventions: gasoline engines, dynamite, and nuclear power.  But, artificial intelligence might become the fourth one.  It looks like turning into an easy tool to make money or help criminals.

Anyway, Masaki later came to believe that he had been a famous Japanese monk of Buddhism in one of his previous life in the 13th century. 

Anyway, Masaki who had believed in only science and engineering till his 50s of age finally came to admit existence of psychic power and spiritual energy.  He also heard voices of a holy spirit telling him that his duration of life would be extended to 90s as Masaki contributed to welfare and happiness of people with his free patents of inventios.  But, for some unknown reason, he died in his 80s.

What should be also noted is that Masaki believed that carbon dioxide caused global warming when the gas was near the ground, but it caused global cooling when it was floating at high altitude reflecting more solar light.   

                               
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Matthew 12, King James Version
18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

"to God the things that are God's" - With all of Hearts, all of Souls, and all of Minds

 

Around Tokyo (with Tokyo Sky-Tree Tower far

With all of Hearts, all of Souls, and all of Minds

Rules of life are important for you to live your life safely, meaningfully, and success fully.  Wise parents would teach rules of life to their children so that they will not at least make fatal mistakes to become unhappy.  Clever young men should ask their parents, reliable teachers, excellent seniors for advise concerning rules of life. 

So, it is understandable that a young man asked Christ Jesus a question about the most important commandment in the law 2,000 years ago: 

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22)

But, today most parents, teachers, etc. would answer that the most important things in life is to consider yourself first and make money as much as possible.  Even Satan would give advise that love money and respect richer men while neglecting the poor.  Indeed, Satan's intent is to make people respect and revere it.  Truly, Satan is above the richest men in this world where most people are occupied by appetite for wealth and money.  Virtually, money has become a global religion where Satan is respected and revered as a god, since money is another form of Satan  

From this point of view, the above words of Christ Jesus to a young man should be regarded as aimed at Satan around him.

In other word, it is common that people love money (Satan) with all of their hearts, all of their souls, and all of their minds, and neglect poor neighbors while trying to be richer than rich neighbors. 

However, based on other words of Christ Jesus, it is apparent that poor and faithful men will enter into Heaven after death in this world to enjoy eternal and happy life.

Anyway, you must not love Satan (also known as money) with all of your hearts, all of your souls, and all of your minds.   

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Mark 12, King James Version
13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.

"he had spoken the parable against them" - A Chinese Christian who Fled China

 
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A Chinese Christian who Fled China

A Chinese Christian was arrested and put into a prison sometimes in 1980s and 1990s.

In the prison he prayed to the Lord Jesus Christ to hear His words: 8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. (Revelation 3)

Then Satan spoke to him to abandon faith.  But, the believer recollected the following words in the Bible to fight against Satan: 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. 9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. (Micah 7)

He was finally set free to find an asylum in Germany in 1997.  Later he wrote a book on his experiences, which was translated into Japanese in 2004. 

I hope that China will be fully democratized to accept freedom of religion. 

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Mark 12, King James Version
12 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.'
8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

"many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus" - May Peace Prevail among Believers!

A Christmas Tree around Tokyo

May Peace Prevail among Believers!

Mahayana (greater vehicle) Buddhism was started to develop around the same time when our Lord Jesus Christ started His mission on the earth. So, it is thought that there is some linkage between Buddhism and Christianity, since some early Christians moved, after the collapse of the Jerusalem Temple in the war with the Roman Empire, to Syria and Persia under some influence from the original Buddhism established some 500 years ago by the Buddha.

In the history, it is well known that a sect of Christianity reached the Tang dynasty of China (618-907) while many monks came from Japan to Tang to learn Buddhism.  It is also believed that one of the 12 Disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ reached India.  Indeed, there seems to be some influence of original Buddhism in Christianity and influence of Christianity in Mahayana Buddhism.      

Especially Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism launched by Kukai (774-835) who went to Tang to learn Tantric Buddhism seems to have been influenced by a sect of Christianity that was then accepted in Tang.  Indeed, Shingon means the true words.  

Anyway, religions in the world handling human death and the spirit world should be connected to one another.  So, Judaism and Islam should be connected in the spirit world.  We have to pray and hope that the current war in Gaza will be immediately stopped.  Indeed, believers of Judaism and those of Islam should not fight in the sprit world.  May peace prevail among believers of any religions!

 

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John 12, King James Version
9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.