Oomoto Shin'yu
The Oomoto Shin'yu (Japanese: 大本神諭) is a sacred scripture of Oomoto, a Japanese new religion founded in 1892 by Nao Deguchi. Starting from the 1890s, it was originally dictated by Nao Deguchi as the Ofudesaki. It was later reinterpreted and edited by Onisaburo Deguchi to become the Oomoto Shin'yu.
Quotes
[edit]- 三ぜん世界一同に開く梅の花、艮の金神の世に成りたぞよ。梅で開いて松で治める、神国の世になりたぞよ。日本は神道、神が構わな行けぬ国であるぞよ。外国は獣類の世、強いもの勝ちの、悪魔ばかりの国であるぞよ。日本も獣の世になりて居るぞよ。外国人にばかされて、尻の毛まで抜かれて居りても、未だ眼が覚めん暗がりの世になりて居るぞよ。是では、国は立ちては行かんから、神が表に現はれて、三千世界の立替へ立直しを致すぞよ。用意を成されよ。この世は全然、新つの世に替へて了ふぞよ。三千世界の大洗濯、大掃除を致して、天下太平に世を治めて、万古末代続く神国の世に致すぞよ。神の申した事は、一分一厘違はんぞよ。毛筋の横巾ほども間違いは無いぞよ。これが違ふたら、神は此の世に居らんぞよ。
天理、金光、黒住、妙霊、先走り、とどめに艮の金神が現はれて、世の立替を致すぞよ。- The Greater World shall burst into full bloom like plum blossoms do – simultaneously. The time for Me, Ushitora-no-Konjin, to reign has come at last! This means the world opened like plum-blossoms shall be Heaven-ruled as evergreen pine trees; this is the world where things shall never go well without Kami's care. Know you, the world has hitherto been and is that of beasts, the stronger preying upon the weaker – quite devilish. Alas, the world of beasts! You are so cheated by the Devil as to be quite unconscious of the truth; a dark age. If things are left as they stand, order shall not be kept. Therefore, through the manifestation of Divine Power, the Greater World shall be reconstructed and transformed into an entirely New World. After going through an over-all cleansing, the Greater World shall be changed into the Kingdom of Heaven where peace will reign through all ages to come. Be prepared for peace to reign through all ages coming. Prepare yourself for that, humanity! Never shall the word of Kami fail; there shall be nothing that comes untrue even by the breadth of a single hair. Know that should Kami err, He would be non-existent.
All churches in the world are the forerunners of Oomoto, for Oomoto is the last one. It has come to give the finish to the reconstruction of the world.- Hino, Iwao (日野巌), trans. 2008. Ofudesaki: Holy Scriptures of Oomoto-kyo (英訳版おふでさき). Aizen Sekaisha (愛善世界社). (p. 1)
- (Originally published in 1974 as an Oomoto internal document with the cooperation of British Oomoto researchers Mrs. Worcester and Mrs. Cox, and American researcher Richard Steiner.)
- (Original Japanese text online)
- The Greater World shall burst into full bloom like plum blossoms do – simultaneously. The time for Me, Ushitora-no-Konjin, to reign has come at last! This means the world opened like plum-blossoms shall be Heaven-ruled as evergreen pine trees; this is the world where things shall never go well without Kami's care. Know you, the world has hitherto been and is that of beasts, the stronger preying upon the weaker – quite devilish. Alas, the world of beasts! You are so cheated by the Devil as to be quite unconscious of the truth; a dark age. If things are left as they stand, order shall not be kept. Therefore, through the manifestation of Divine Power, the Greater World shall be reconstructed and transformed into an entirely New World. After going through an over-all cleansing, the Greater World shall be changed into the Kingdom of Heaven where peace will reign through all ages to come. Be prepared for peace to reign through all ages coming. Prepare yourself for that, humanity! Never shall the word of Kami fail; there shall be nothing that comes untrue even by the breadth of a single hair. Know that should Kami err, He would be non-existent.
