This is a book of catalytic truths that will uproot the very foundations on whi.ch civilization stands. It contains the final insight into the culture man has fashioned and the roles played by religion and philosophy, science and art, and all else in human history. All who read with care will find themselves chanced and awakened. Then civilization will begin to stir restlessly, finally undergoing a complete transformation.

Many readers, especially scientists, will probably be unable at first to comprehend fully what I say, but deep reflection upon these pages will result in a genuine under standing of man and the universe, the reality behind all the phenomena that science has tried in vain to grasp.

There is an artificial division that the scholarly world has created between religion and science. We must overcome that division and refute the false justifications that have supported it.

All things were created with their opposites each with a dual aspect: yang and yin, light and darkness, reality and appearance, or spirit and matter. Every branch of science and learning, while recognizing and embracing the material side of things, has failed comp1eely to perceive or accept the existence of the spiritual. Such narrow vision is perhaps unavoidable, a result of the intangible quality the spiritual and the impossibility of measuring it with scientific means. The methods of natural science have picked up only the physical properties of the space surrounding the earth, such as air and electricity, but there is an additional spiritual substance which is as integral to that space as any physical property. The space surrounding the earth is composed of Spirit and Air. The essence of Spirit is Fire and the essence of Air is Water. These two elements, Fire and Water, combine to become an unbroken blanket of vapor that forms the atmosphere of a physical and spiritual entity around Earth. The third element is Soil, the essence of Earth. Science has recognized only the physical properties of Air and Earth, thus confining scientific theory and experimentation to the physical aspects of what makes up the unified whole of the world. No matter how advanced, science is plagued by internal contradictions because it cannot explain the whole of reality. Reality invariably betrays the conclusions of theory. As long as science fails to incorporate the spiritual realm into its own sphere of investigation, any perception of the New Civilization will be blocked.

The three realms of Spirit, Air and Earth can be understood in terms of their vertical relationship, which corresponds to the order of the sun, moon and earth. In any given horizontal plane, however, they exist together, in mutual interpenetration. The three realms fuse together to form the earth, a composite mass in them center of the universe. Each element of the three realms, furthermore, has its own internal dynamic. Fire Burns vertically, Water flows horizontally, and Soil stands still. But the stillness is not absolute, for it resonates with the respiration of the earth. The vertical and horizontal currents of Fire and Water weave together like cloth to form a vapor that circulates around and penetrates the earth. The vapor is composed of particles so miniscule that no scientific method can perceive it. This invisible vapor is the source of all change in the earth – a substance inexplicable in its profoundness.

Someone who has been awakened to a part of the truth about the spiritual realm is called, in Buddhism, Kakusha, or “enlightened.” Someone who has been able to reach beyond Kakusha is called Daikakuha, “greatly enlightened.” Kenshinjitsu is the supreme state among men of knowing the divine will and perceiving God’s plan. Jesus and Buddha both attained the state of Kenshinjitsu, although the time of their enlightenment was premature. Because civilization was not yet ripe, they could not save the world in their time, nor could the saints who followed after them eradicate the misery and suffering that still afflict mankind.

Now God has willed that the world and civilization should be saved. It is only for that purpose that I have been chosen to expound the truth and carry forth the salvation of man. This is the great gospel that human history has come to meet.

The vision of the Kenshinjitsu reveals that all the achievements and cultural advancement history has witnessed came about precisely because of the one-sided, materialistic advance of civilization. While civilization succeeded, in its material advance, it failed to grow in the spiritual aspects.

Why did God not create a perfect, infallible civilization in the first place? That is the question with which this book is concerned.