神と人間 安心立命への道しるべ
ー 五井 昌久著
第三章 実在界・霊界・幽界・肉体界①
さて前章においては、総括的にやや抽象的に人間の説明をしておいたが、この章では、もっと具体的に突き進んで、人間とはいかなる者かを述べてゆきたい。
ある一部の宗教家は、人間業生説、因縁説を説き、人間は常に因縁因果の世界から抜けきれぬとしているが、私はここではっきりと、人間は本来業生ではないといい切りたい。業生である以上、人間はいつ迄も輪廻転生しなければならぬし、苦楽混合、否苦多く、楽少なき生活をつづけなければならぬことになり、一向に救われぬことになってしまう。これでは人間としてこの世に生まれてきたことがまことに不幸であり、神とか仏とかの存在価値がなくなってしまう。現象（あらわれ）の世界は確かに因縁因果で動いているようだが、その底を流れている強い神への憧れ、仏への思慕を思うとき、人間の本性の中に明るい光明をみないわけにはいかない。私は人間の霊性を深く追求して、人間と神との一体を観じ得た。即ち人間は神の子であり、神そのものでさえあるということである。私が霊覚で悟り得た人間の発生について説いてみたいと思う。
人間は本来、神からきた光である。光は即ち心である。神は、すべてのすべてであり、無限の知慧、無限の愛、無限の生命であるけれども、神そのものが、神そのままの姿で動いたとしたら、形の世界には何ものも現われてはこない。無限がそのまま動いたとしても、無限はいつまでも無限であって、有限にはならない。一つがいくら動いてもやはり一なのである。無限が幾つかの有限になり、一が自己分裂して二になり、四にならなければ、形の世界は創造されない。
この光そのものである神がある時、突然その統一していた光を各種、各様相に異なった光として放射した。この時から神の創造活動が始められたのである。神まず天地に分れ、そして、その一部の光は、海霊（うみだま）、山霊（やまだま）、木霊（こだま）と呼ばれ自然界を創造し、活動せしめ、その一部は動物界を創造し、後の一部の光は直霊（ちょくれい）とよばれて人間界を創造した。（第一図参照）
第一図
ここにおいて神は、一であり、多であることとなり、一即多神となるのである。
さて、人間の直霊、即ち神の一部の光こそ、私が前章より書きつづけている人間そのものなのであって、この時にはいまだ業因は生じていないのである。
この直霊が動き出でて各種の光の波を出だし、霊界を創り、各分霊となり、各分霊が直霊より分けられたる光（心）により創造力を駆使して幽界を創り、肉体界を創造して、ある時は幽体という衣だけ着て幽界に生活し、ある時は幽体をつけたうえに、肉体という衣をつけて肉体界の創造活動を営んだ。霊体が中味とすれば幽体はシャツであり、肉体は上衣である。この三つの体はいずれも光の波動でできているのであるが、肉体はその光の波が非常に粗く、流れる速度も遅く、その波は重い。分霊は、精妙な光であり、本来自由自在に動きうる波動をもっているのであるが、肉体界に出入りするうち、いつとはなく肉体の鈍い動きに同化されてきて、しだいにその精妙さが失われてきた。始め、肉体界をつくり、そこに神の創造を形づけようとして活動をつづけていた各分霊は、さながら繭をつくって、その中に閉じこめられた蛹の如き状態に陥り、しだいにその光波が濁っていったのである。それはちょうど、流れの早い川は澄み、流れの遅い川は濁っている、のと同じ原理である。やがて、各分霊は自分たちの親である直霊にむける念を疎（うとん）じ出し、それまでに幽体と肉体に蓄積されていた光の波（念）だけに重点を置いて、楽な創造を営もうとしはじめたのである。ここにおいて人間は、肉体界の生活を主とした自己限定をするようになっていったのである。分霊の創造の始めにおいておこされた想い（光の波動）は神より来たる本来因果（真善）であったが、肉体界に自己限定を始めた頃より生じた想いが業因となって、人類の悲劇が始められたのである。
即ち、自己限定した各分霊は、お互いの不自由性を解放しようとして、縦である直霊にむかわず、横につながる兄弟姉妹である分霊魂から、その自由を得ようとし始めた。即ち縦取りをしないで横取りをしはじめたのである。そして、幽体及び肉体に蓄積された想い（知識）並びに腕力を使い合って、闘争の歴史を繰りひろげていったのである。しかし時折り、みずから閉じ込め、今は閉じ込められた肉体の隙間から、神の顔をその光明をちらりと観ては、蓄積された想念の中から、かつての自分の光を見出し、直霊にむかって救いを求める祈りの絶叫を挙げるのである。これが信仰心の始まりであった。これまでの状態を図解して説明しよう。
（②の第二図参照）
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God and Man ～Guideposts for Spiritual Peace and Awakening
ー Written by Masahisa Goi
Chapter 3: Real World, Spiritual World, Subconscious and Physical Worlds PartⅠ
In the previous chapter, I have explained the nature of human beings in general and somewhat abstract terms. In this chapter, I would like to describe in further detail what a human being is.
Some theologians advocate the theory that human beings are karma-created beings, or the ‘cause and effect’ theory, saying that human beings can never escape from the world of cause and effect. However, I would like to clearly declare here that human beings are not originally karma-created. If they were karmic creations, they would have to reincarnate forever and continually experience lives of hardship mixed with pleasure—nay, lives of much hardship with little pleasure—and would never rise above them. If this were true, to be born as a human being in this world would be very unfortunate, and the existence of God would lose all value.
It does appear that the phenomenal world is surely being moved by the law of cause and effect. However, when we think of the deep and irresistible longing for God that flows in the depths of the human mind, we cannot help seeing the bright light within the true nature of human beings. I have deeply pursued the spirituality of human beings and have known through real experience the oneness of human beings with God: that they are children of God, and are even God Itself. Now I would like to describe the origin of human beings, which I have been able to realize through oneness with God.
A human being is originally light that comes forth from God. Light is Mind. God is all of everything: infinite wisdom, infinite love and infinite life. However, if God moves just as it is, nothing will appear in the world of forms and shapes. If infinity were to move just as it is, infinity would be forever infinity and would never become finite. However actively one [1] moves, it still remains one [1]. Unless infinity becomes a number of finites, or unless one divides itself into two and then four, the world of forms and shapes cannot be created.
At a certain time, God, who is light itself, suddenly radiated a great variety of individually distinct rays that had been previously kept unified. From that time forward, the creative activities of God began. First, God divided Itself into Heaven and Earth. Certain rays called the Sea Divinity, the Mountain Divinity and the Tree Divinity created the world of nature and set its life-activities into motion. Other rays created the animal world. And the remaining rays, called ‘Direct Spirits,’(※4) created the human world (refer to Figure 1).
Figure 1
Here God is One, and at the same time, many.
Now, this Direct Spirit, which is a ray of divine light, is the original ‘human being,’ or ‘man,’ that I have been writing about. At this stage, the first karmic cause has not yet appeared.
These Direct Spirits moved and radiated various waves of rays, creating the spiritual world and giving form to individual spirits.(※5) Each individual spirit exerted creative power through the rays (mind) given by the Direct Spirit, and created the subconscious and physical worlds. At a certain time, they lived in the subconscious world, clothed only in the garment called the subconscious body. Then at a given time, they became engaged in the creative activity of the physical world, clothed in the garment called the physical body over the subconscious body. Metaphorically speaking, if the spiritual body is the interior, or the ‘body,’ the subconscious (ethereal) body is the first layer of clothing, or the ‘shirt,’ and the physical body is the ‘jacket,’ or the heavier garment. These three embodiments are composed of vibrations of light.
As for the physical body, its light waves are very rough, its flowing speed is slow and its waves are heavy. The individual spirit is exquisitely fine light with a vibration that originally enabled it to move freely. However, while moving to and from the physical world, it unknowingly assimilated with the slow movement of the physical body, and gradually lost its fineness. Each of the individual spirits, who had initially created the physical world and who were engaged in the activity of forming the creation of God there, fell into the pupal stage, like the silk worm who weaves a cocoon and confines itself in it, and gradually its wave of light became impure. This is the same principle as the clearness of a rapid river and the impureness of a slow-moving stream.
The individual spirits then began to neglect directing their thoughts to the Direct Spirits, their parents, and started to engage in an easier creative activity by placing emphasis on waves of light (thoughts) that had accumulated in their subconscious and physical embodiments up until then. At that point, human beings began to restrict themselves, placing their attention mainly on life in the physical world. However, the thoughts, or vibrations of light, that were generated by the individual spirits when they started their creative activities were the original cause and effect (true good) that came from God. Thoughts that were conceived later, starting from the time when the individual spirits began to restrict themselves to the physical world, formed the first karmic causes. So began the tragedy of humankind.
In other words, to free themselves from limitation, each of the individual spirits, who had restricted themselves, tried to take freedom away from others. Instead of seeking from the Direct Spirits, who are vertically linked to them in parent-child relationships, they started to take from other individual spirits, who are horizontally linked to them as brothers and sisters. That is, they started to take from the horizontal rather than from the vertical plane. They began the history of struggle, using thoughts (knowledge) that had accumulated in their subconscious and physical consciousness, along with their physical strength, to fight against one another.
Occasionally, however, from the physical bodies in which they had confined themselves and are now still confined, they glimpsed through a gap the face of God and saw God’s light. Then they cried out in prayer to the Direct Spirits for help, finding their former light among the accumulated thoughts. This was the beginning of the religious mind. The relationships mentioned above will be explained in illustrations (refer to Figure 2 of PartⅡ).
※4： The term used is chokurei (直霊). Choku (直) means 'direct' and rei (霊) means 'spirit.' Chokurei is the light emanating directly from God to form the origin of humanity. Chokurei could be translated as 'God in the human world,' 'Direct Spirit,' or 'Divine Self.' (Refer to Figures 1 and 2 in Chapter 3.)
※5： The term used is bunrei (分霊). Bun (分) means 'divide' or 'division,' and rei (霊) means 'spirit.' Bunrei means 'divided spirit,' 'division of God,' or 'spirit emanating from the Direct Spirit of God.'
→ To be continued in PartⅡ
Dios y el Ser Humano (Spanish Edition)
Deus e o Homem (Portuguese Edition)
