「文明の創造、宗教篇」昭和27(1952)年

霊的病気

之から愈々霊的病気に就てかいてみるが、霊的病気とは即ち憑霊による病気であって、憑霊といっていついつも多種多様な症状があるから、其一々に就て、順次かいてみよう。

癌病

癌の病として、最も多く而も難症であるのは、何と言っても胃癌であろう。曩には薬毒による擬似胃癌を詳説したから、之から真症胃癌の原因である憑霊の事をかくのであるが、此霊は殆んど蛇の霊である。蛇が其人の前生の時か又は祖霊に殺された為に、其怨霊が恨みを返えさんが為憑って苦しめるのであって、此症状は主に腹部全体に亘り、形は小さいが蛇の如く、或時は丸く、或時はクネリ長くなり、恰度泳ぐように移動するのである。其際激痛、不快感、食欲不振等もあり、注意すれば其位置も判るのである。

何しろ霊であるから、切開しても診断の時は確かにあった筈のものが、見付からないのは、見えざる蛇霊であるから移動しても分らないからである。元来蛇なるものの性格は、非常に執着が強いもので、右の如く今世までも追及し、復讐するのである。然し此癌は割合治り易いものであるが、同じ蛇霊でも非常に悪性なのがある。之こそ最初人間が前々生に於ける執着の罪によって、畜生界に墜ち、蛇となって再生するのである。処が其蛇が生きてる間に、多くの種々の生物を呑む為、其生物の怨霊が凝って蛇の腹中に宿った侭、今度は人間に再生するのである。従而、其生物の集団怨霊が、復讐的に苦しめようとする。其苦しみが人間に移写するのであるから、実に厄介なものである。

そうして此症状は中年期迄は余り発生しないが、其頃から以後になると、猛威を呈し始める。最初は食欲不振、痛み、不快感等であるが、進むに従って、触れれば判る程の固結が一個乃至数個出来、幅吐もするようになる。一層進むと胃中にヌラが発生し、漸次増えてゆき、遂には胃の中全部にヌラが充満する。そうなると全然食欲がなくなるから仕方なしに指を突込み、無理に吐くようにすると若干吐いてヌラの減っただけ、胃に空虚が出来るから、流動食が入るのである。そんな訳で漸次食事不能となって、衰弱死に至るのである。

此ヌラというのは右の怨霊の物質化であるから、ヌラの多いのは多く呑んだ訳である。之にみてもヌラを吐く症状は、真症胃癌と思えば間違いない。然し稀には胃癌でなくて、ヌラを吐く場合もあるが、此ヌラは頗る稀薄であるから、よく分る。先ず濃いヌラを吐く症状が真症胃癌と思えぱ間違いないのである。

次は直腸癌であるが、之は直腸部に癌が発生し移動性ではなく、固定的である。直腸は糞便通過の管であるから、便の通過が妨げられるので、医療は手術によって癌を切り除るので、糞便の通り道がなくなるから、腹部の横の方に、人工肛門を造るが、之程始末の悪いものはない。何しろ開けっ放しであるから、糞便が溜るだけは、其穴へ絶えず出て来るので、赤子のように始終オシメを当てねばならず、動作によっては腸がハミ出る危険があるので、其辛さは並大抵ではない。大体の人は死んだ方がましだと歎声を漏らすが、稀にはどうやら泣き泣き相当生きてる人もある。此原因は前生時代、人の罪穢の浄化を妨げる行為、つまり罪人から賄賂を取って許したり軽くしたりする行為の罪や、欲の為人に醜行を行はしたり、見逃したりした罪等である。

次に割合多いものに子宮癌があるが、此原因は、前生期又は今生期に於ける堕胎の罪であって、つまり闇から闇に流された水児の怨霊が子宮へ憑依するのである。稀には膣癌というのがあるが、之は不道徳な男女関係による罪である。次は喉頭癌であるが、之は前生期又は今生期に於て鳥屋などが、沢山の鶏の首を締め殺した怨霊が殆んどである。又舌癌は前生時代舌によって作った罪であって、舌の為に人に迷惑や苦しみを与えた恨みの怨霊の罪であるが、此外に一寸気が付かない罪がある。それは誤った学説や、悪思想や、邪教の宣伝などで、多くの人を誤らせ、社会に害毒を流すような罪で、之は多数の人に被害を与えるから、割合重い罪となるのである。

次に頬癌、痔癌等もあるが、之等は滅多にない病気で、頬癌は人の頬を殴打し、損傷を与えた怨みの罪、痔癌は肛門に損傷を与えた怨みの罪等である。

Spiritually Caused Diseases: (1) Cancer Diseases

“Creation of Civilization” written by Mokichi Okada in 1952

As for cancer diseases, stomach cancer would be the most common and incurable disease. I previously described suspected stomach cancer in detail, which is caused by toxic medicine. Now, I explain the cause of true stomach cancer, that is, spirit possession. In most cases, it is caused by the possession of a serpent’s spirit. The serpent was killed by a person in their previous life or their ancestor. Therefore, it possesses and tortures them to pay off the grudge. This symptom mainly appears all-around their belly, where something small in shape but like a snake moves as if it swims while sometimes becoming round and sometimes winding and extending. When it occurs, they have severe pain, feel discomfort, lose appetite and so on. When carefully looking at it, you can find where it is. Because of the spirit, it cannot be found by open surgery even though it was there when examined. Since the invisible spirit of a serpent moves, it cannot be found. A serpent originally has a strong attachment. Therefore, it purses and revenges them even in the present world. However, this cancer is relatively curable. There is also an evil spirit of a serpent existing. It is the spirit of the one which was born as a human being in its past-past-life. At that time, they sinned with attachment and fell into the world of animals after one died. Then they were reborn as a snake and swallowed many kinds of living things while living. Those things became vengeful spirits and dwelled in its stomach. Then it was reborn as a human being while they are still there. Therefore, they collectively torture the spirit in revenge. These sufferings transfer to the human body. That is very troublesome. This symptom rarely appears until middle age but after that, it starts to get severe. The person firstly loses appetite, has pain and feels discomfort. As the symptom progresses, one or a few solid substances are formed. They are big enough to touch. Then the person starts vomiting, too. When progressing further, a kind of slimy thing generates in the stomach. Its amount gradually increases and finally fills the whole stomach. In this condition, the person completely loses appetite. Then the person inevitably sticks a finger down their throat and vomits by force. When vomiting slimy things even a little, the stomach gets a space for the reduced amount of them and the person can have liquid food. For this reason, the person gradually becomes unable to eat, which leads one to debilitation and death. These slimy things are the materialized substances of vengeful spirits. Therefore, if a person has a lot of slimy things, it means that one swallowed a lot of living things. From this point of view, when someone vomits slimy things, they would suffer from true stomach cancer. In rare cases, someone might vomit slimy things even though one doesn’t suffer from real stomach cancer. These types of them are very thin so that you can easily find the difference. When vomiting thick slimy things, there would be no doubt that a person suffers from true stomach cancer.

Then I explain rectal cancer. This cancer is developed in the rectum. It doesn’t move but stays there. Since the rectum is a tube that faeces path through, rectal cancer interferes with this action. Therefore, as for medical treatment, the cancer is removed by a surgical operation. Consequently, there becomes no path for faeces so that a colostomy is done on one side of the abdomen. This stoma is such a troublesome thing to handle. As it is left open, faeces constantly come out of it as much as they accumulate. The person has to put a nappy like a baby all the time. In the case of depending on one’s movement, the intestine might have a risk to protrude. How painful it is! Most of the patients who have a stoma cannot help but think that they would rather die or some of them seem to keep on living with a feeling of crying. Rectal cancer is caused when a person did something to prevent others from purification in their previous life. It means one accepted a bribe from somebody and forgave or lightened their sin instead, or had somebody engage in bad conduct or overlooked it to satisfy their demands.

I explain uterine cancer then. It is relatively common. It is caused by the sin of abortion in one’s previous or present life. An aborted foetus is shrouded in darkness. Its vengeful spirit possesses the uterus. It is rare but vaginal cancer is also caused by the sin of an immoral relationship between a man and a woman. Then I explain pharyngeal cancer. It is mostly caused when a person, who kept poultry or so, strangled many roosters in their previous or present life. The vengeful spirits possess their throat. Tongue cancer is caused when a person sinned with their tongue in their previous life. When the person bothered or harmed somebody, a grudged spirit possesses their tongue. Other than this, I explain the sin caused by the tongue which people hardly notice. It is the sin of making many people do wrong things or exert a bad influence on society by preaching a wrong theory, bad thoughts, a false religion and so on. As they harm many people, they would become relatively grave sins.

People rarely suffer from the cancer of a cheek or haemorrhoid. Cheek cancer is caused by the sin of hitting someone on the cheek. Haemorrhoid cancer is caused by the sin of damaging someone’s anus or so.

Translated by N.H.

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