Pt.

2 The new Religion of Other worldly contact

October 1 1986 Ryuho Okawa published the Basic Sutra of Happy Science, “The Dharma
of the Right Mind”, which contains condensed core teachings and is received by everyone
who wants to join Happy Science as a member. Five days later he established his religious
organization (Oct. 6th 1986).

Happy Science (“Kofuku-no-kagaku” in Japanese), known as “The Institute of Research in Human

On March 8th 1987 the first lecture marking the start of Happy Science was held (“The Principle
of Happiness”) explained the basic teachings and direction of Happy Science, which are “The
Exploration of the Right Mind” and “The Principles of Happiness,” (The Fourfold Path of Love,
Wisdom, Self-Reflection and Progress).

Okawa now travels to the nations spreading his message he received from spirits.

An example of what is taught can be found in the book “The Nine Dimensions: Unveiling The
Laws of Eternity.” “The reader will be taken on a journey into the Other World – that place to
which we all go when our lives end here on earth. The multidimensional aspects of this Other
World are revealed, culminating in the Ninth Dimension – the realm of the saviors. This is the
realm inhabited by the Messiahs, beings who only come down to earth every thousand years or
more.

…It is His hope that when the religions and cultures of the world discover the truth of their
common spiritual origin, they will be inspired to accept their differences, come together under faith
in God, and build an era of harmony and peaceful progress on Earth.”

This concept of Saviors, Messiahs visiting the earth in epochs of time is not new and is drawn from
various other sources (a 9th dimension is his individual teaching). You can’t include Jesus or
Christianity in this religious melting pot, for Jesus said He alone is the truth, the ONLY Messiah.
The unity message to build an era of peace appeals to everyone’s hopes yet again Jesus warned of
this taking place in end times. Apparently Okawa is using Jesus (and possibly other names) to
endorse his mission, avoiding the actual words of Jesus and his apostles that would bring a conflict.

Other dimensional truth?

“If you have knowledge, it will enable you to make decisions subjectively, without being led astray
by other people’s opinions. People who cannot make subjective decisions can only act as members
of a group and therefore be controlled by other people’s opinions. This is because they are lacking
in knowledge. If they can only exist as members of a group, it is because they lack the knowledge to
make decisions on their own. It is often said that truth can set you free, true knowledge provides
freedom. Through the acquisition of true knowledge we are able to think and decide freely.
Conversely people who are unable decide freely are lacking in knowledge. (P.7 issue 214 Happy
Science)

So if one disagrees with Okawa’s revelation by spirits are they lacking knowledge or have a
different knowledge. The actual quote came from Jesus, who said, “the truth would set you free”,
HE was and still is the truth. He did not say another’s teachers be used for some other truth. Jesus
said he was the good shepherd and did not share this position with others. John 10:1-3 "Most
assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other
way, the same is a thief and a robber."But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the
sheep."To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by
name and leads them out.”

“There are dimensions beyond the tenth, known as the Macrocosmic Grand Divine Spirit, which is
said to encompass as many as twenty dimensions (Okawa 1991app.29-30).

Okawa says, No spirit from the tenth dimension or beyond has incarnated on earth.

We are told Lord Antonius is the God of the Earth, part of the tenth dimensional Grand Sun
consciousness who has entrusted Okawa with the mission to unify all thought and religion. This
certainly seems related to new age teachings from the ascended masters. Once again this is contrary
to the Bible who says there is only one true God

Okawa claims to have attained knowledge of the fourteenth dimension which means he has greater
knowledge than Jesus who is in the 9th dimension, (whom was proved was God by his
resurrection).

Whenever someone starts to make claims to have continual spirit contact with the dead, we know it
cannot be proven in an absolute sense, it is subjective. However, if we go by the bible we know it
can be proven they have not made contact that this is not only dangerous but forbidden to pursue.

When someone claims spirit[s] speak and one of them is Jesus and he gives who gives us a different
doctrine than the Bible, then we know it’s not the real Jesus. No matter how convincing or insistent
one is, if his Jesus is just another teacher in the “9th dimension” then he is not the same one of the
Bible.

The book -Nine dimensions – unveiling the laws of eternity. Okawa says this book contains “why
He conceived such a colorful medley of religions, philosophies, sciences, arts, and other forms of
expression. It is His hope that when the religions and cultures of the world discover the truth of
their common spiritual origin, they will be inspired to accept their differences, come together under
faith in God, and build an era of harmony and peaceful progress on Earth.”

Okawa claims that it is a new era, the answers can no longer be found where they once were found.
“The mission of world religions, which were founded 2,000 or 2,500 years ago, is now coming to an
end. Even Christian societies cannot always find answers to modern issues with the teachings of
Jesus Christ. The words of Buddha may also not apply to the issues or problems we have today.

1,400 years ago, Muhammad expounded his teachings, but the teachings inscribed in the Koran
contradict much of the norms of modern society.

Because they cannot understand one another on many occasions, Christian teachings and Muslim
teachings are causing conflicts all around the world in the 21st century. If the founders of these
religions were living today, they would probably tell us to change certain parts or teach us to
interpret it in a different way. They would probably teach us how we could work together with other
religions and harmonize with one another.

However, this is impossible because their religions are already disappearing

World Teacher Special Report Now is the Time for Salvation) [underline mine]

So Okawa is presenting himself and his new religion as the answer of all answers. That everyone’s
religion is obsolete, (including Jesus, God in the flesh) and he (Okawa) has the answer for the
future. His answer is based on interfaith cooperation, nothing new there; except he is leader.

"I predict that the society of the future will base its learning and scientific advances on a philosophy
that affirms the existence of the spirit world and reincarnation. What we need now is a religion that
will make this possible and I am convinced that Happy Science is the only religion that can take on
this weighty responsibility." (from The Laws of Prosperity)

BUILDING A NEW WORLD:

Statements are made like “you must love beyond the differences of all religions, all nations and all
races, you are originally one.”

“We humans have the power to change who we are, improve ourselves, and turn our future into one
of great dreams and ideals. That is what makes us children of God. This is our divine nature.”

This clearly goes against the teachings of Jesus and the Bible, for God says we do not have a divine
but sinful nature. Clearly this is not part of Okawa’s teachings. That we are not all children of God,
but are adopted by believing in the gospel (Jn.1:12). The ability to improve ourselves does not
endorse anyone as a child of God nor validate having a divine nature, God does, making him unique

What about membership? There are no fees, no diet restriction they state by becoming a
member you build a spiritual connection with the Lord. Your soul makes quicker progress.

“by joining a group of similar minded people, you can contribute to creating an ideal society, which
we call “Utopia”. There is a limit to what one person can do, but a lot can be done by many.”

“Everything begins with believing. El Cantare is the wish of mankind.You have the divine mission to
shape this wish !Fight, Angels of Light! Fight, Warriors of Light! Gather here, my disciples through
karma! The Savior’s command starts here. Henceforth, For the salvation of the whole of mankind,
or the construction of the new world, We will have to make the utmost effort, will we not! (Okawa
1994，pp. 295-97)

The Warriors of Light are the Kofuku no Kagaku members, who engage in the fight to overcome
darkness through the propagation of El Cantare’s message. But you can’t overcome darkness with
darkness.

“The world population is now over seven billion and growing towards ten billion. My thoughts are
focused on how people living in over two-hundred countries can be in harmony with each other,
work together and live in happiness on this Earth whose world population is approaching ten
billion”.

In October 1999 they opened a new Happy Science General Headquarters building in Shinagawa
ward, Tokyo and announced it to be “a base from which Utopia will be created.” In the meantime
they are advertising at the Olympics 2012-07-17.

Reincarnation is an essential part of this New Religion

“the soul – is a unique but eternal existence incarnating many times between Heaven and Earth.
You are a child of God or Buddha, hence, like a diamond in the rough, the more you refine and
polish yourself, the more your soul will shine”

We read Lord El Cantare has also sent down parts of his own consciousness – brother souls - to
guide humanity in the right direction at the most important times in history. souls who have been
born to Earth in the last twenty thousand years are: La Mu - 17,000 years ago on the Mu continent;
Thoth - 12,000 years ago in Atlantis; Rient Arl Croud - 7,000 years ago in the Incan Empire;
Ophealis - 6,500 years ago in Greece; Hermes - 4,300 years ago in Greece, Crete Island; Gautama
Siddhartha (Shakyamuni Buddha) - 2,500 years ago in India. And is currently Ryuho Okawa.

It becomes evident that Ryuho Okawa is well read in theosophy, occult literature and has borrowed
other views that are found in alternative religious literature.

The process of reincarnation

El Cantare was to incarnate as Hermes in Greece 4,300 years ago and as Sakyamuni in India 2,600
years ago. (Okawa 1994 p. 44 cited in p.365 The Transformation of a Recent Japanese New
Religion Okawa Ryuho and Kofuku no Kagaku by Trevor Astley)

Moria came as Moses over 3,000 years ago, Therabim as Confucius over 2,000 years ago.

Amor came to earth in the form of Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago.

Moses, Jesus Christ, and Confucius are Ninth-dimensional spirits. It is from this ninth-dimensional
world that he says the “personal gods” and “fundamental divinities” of the world religions have
incarnated on earth. He teaches the tenth dimension is the highest realm of the terrestrial spirit
group. It consists of Grand Sun

Consciousness, Moon Consciousness, and Earth Consciousness.

These were the “initial four ninth-dimensional Divine Spirits” that inhabited the earth. The

fifth ninth-dimensional Divine Spirit was El Ranty, or Aal El Ranty, from which the name Allah was
later derived. Under his guidance, a group of sixty million inhabitants of the planet Beta utraveled
to the

Earth in a big fleet of space crafts’ landing by the Nile where the first Utopia was
established—giving us the later legend of the Garden of Eden (Okawa 1991a，pp. 34-47).

El Ranty and Amor were the principal guiding spirits of La Mu, “the great king of the light of
Mu，，，the civilization that thrived in the Pacific some 17,000 years ago before it finally sank
into the Ocean 15,300 years ago. Some of the survivors of Mu are said to have escaped to the
Atlantic continent of Atlantis. La Mu, incidentally, was also to reincarnate later as Sakyamuni in
India (Okawa 1991a, pp. 199-202).

What we have here is a procession of reincarnation with a mixture of theosophy and occult
teachings that are commonly found all through the New Age movement. There is no doubt Okawa
is a medium for these teachings. Through various multi-faceted means he has systematized names,
concepts and practices from all.

In his own publication Happy Science we read "Sri Lanka Visited by Buddha Reincarnate"

“Buddha…reborn?” I could hardly believe my ears at that moment. Curious, I decided to visit the
nearby Okinawa Temple of Happy Science. Right when I sat in front of the Gohonzon, all of the
hatred and bitterness I felt disappeared, and I was instead struck with the image of God praying for
peace and love for all human beings.

There is so much happiness here. This religion can help rebuild Sri Lanka from the aftermaths of
the civil war and bring prosperity to the country. This is the religion I had been searching for.”
(Issue 214 Happy Science)

Dalai Lama has competition. Okawa has a number of alternate explanations that challenge the
Bible. I suspect the other religions are also challenged by his reinterpretations.

The early background of the founder’s history may give us insight into his religious spiritual
pursuits: While still at elementary school he and his brother were lectured by their father on topics
as diverse as the Bible, and the Zen koan collection Mumonkan, and Marxist thought. His dream
was to become a scholar or a diplomat; realizing his mediocrity, he would study until late at
night…. By dint of such effort he reached the top of his class. (P. 345 The Transformation of a
Recent Japanese New Religion Okawa Ryuho and Kofuku no Kagaku)

MEDITATION

Members develop a deeper understanding of life, character and leadership qualities, to contribute to
the development of the world.

They do this by Meditation which initiates communication with the high realms of Heaven of in the
Spirit World. The purpose of meditation is to discover our true selves – a spiritual being residing in
a physical body; we are “spiritual beings whose real home is the Spirit World” “The act of
discovering your true self is the purpose of meditation.”(book challenge of the Mind p.53)

They are taught to contact the Spirit World by this meditation. They can “receive light from the
other world through our brother or sister souls or from more advanced guiding spirits.” It is to
“transform it into a source of vitality, a source of energy for our everyday life, and an origin of
wisdom to dissolve our problems.

Those who live in a good-hearted way, who have good thoughts and do good deeds, can easily start
contacting their guardian and guiding spirits … those who have few good thoughts and rarely good
deeds are very likely to come under negative spiritual influences. Therefore, Exploration of the
Right Mind is ‘a must’ for right meditation. They recommend Shojas (Monasteries) and a Happy
Science Faith Center for peaceful and quiet environments; they are spiritually protected.
HEALINGS and ENLIGHTENMENT

They will get comments from people they interview who have attended the lectures. The magazine
carries testimonies as well as teachings. They are high tech and polished to proselytize as well as
explain their message of enlightenment from the one whom they call master.

In his lectures numerous people claim to have been healed without him focusing on healing.

The Laws of Salvation

“The world after death is not a world of pain or sadness. Of course, for those who lead a
bad life, would go to a world like that, but for those who lead a good life would go to a beautiful
and calm world that is filled with much more happiness than this world. (p.10 Issue 211 Happy
Science)

Ones destination is determined by how good they are, one cannot be assured of being
good without the help of Happy Science. For it will "do what Buddhism or Christianity can
no longer do: bring salvation to the people in the modern era and of the future" (from The Laws of
Prosperity)

That is a man’s opinion that Christianity has failed, a man who calls himself Lord, savior and
master and savior.

“The Laws of Salvation is the first ‘Laws Series’ for the start of 2011 and offers salvation for
humanity living in the 21st century that spans into the future that accommodates the upcoming era
of the ‘Space Age’.

Here is the preface:

“The time has come. I present this book to the many people in Japan and the rest of the world who
have not yet awakened to the Truth.

The Savior has appeared again after 2,500 years from Buddha’s death in India. I have already
taught a lot of laws in Japanese, but Japanese people have not understood this Truth completely.
This is far from being splendid and the Japanese are far from being leaders of the world in the
religious area. They should be ashamed about that.

The rebirth of Buddha, in my context, is the same meaning of the reappearance of Christ. El
Cantare will save the Earth from the crises and open a new way for the upcoming Space Age. The
Savior has proclaimed that the age of mercy and love has come again.” (By Master Ryuho Okawa)

Okawa considers them all from the same source, but it all focused on him. Clearly he is presenting
himself as another Christ to our age.

PRAYING the HAPPY SCIENCE WAY:

We are told Prayer is a bridge that connects this three-dimensional world with heaven where you
can experience the state of oneness with God (Buddha). In Buddhist terms, it is enlightenment,
where there is no distinction between the mind of God (Buddha) and the self.”

I cannot recall Buddha ever teaching on God. The message is nearly identical to the gurus
message of self enlightenment, only in different garb. “When you enter the world of
prayer you must become one with the energy that runs through the entire universe” (the
Science of Happiness p.156)

Okawa explains “The world beyond this earth is a world where only thoughts exist. Prayer is like
making a telephone call - the act of connecting lines of thought. …No matter how hard we pray,
there are times when our prayers do not reach heaven. It is because prayer works according to the
spiritual laws. A certain set of laws governs the world of prayer and true prayer must be
accompanied by beauty, goodness and love:

The fruit of prayer is the awakening and arousing of a supreme force, an outside power, which
transcends the limits of physical existence.

Not only is one instructed to pray to persons who are dead, but prayer elicits a force, the supreme
force that is outside oneself. Which to me sounds spiritual dangerous.

Prayer to the Lord

Expresses their gratitude to Lord El Cantare for giving us power, wisdom, love and light

Prayer to Guardian and Guiding Spirits helps them to connect with our guardian spirit – they claim
our subconscious resides in the Spirit World. They offer gratitude to a brother or sister soul for
guiding and protecting them.

They claim All Happy Science prayers are of a great spiritual power … inspired by such
consciousness as El Cantare, Shakyamuni Buddha, Hermes, and Jesus Christ.

Reference book - The Science of Happiness

Happy Science prayers: The Dharma of the Right Mind is the main sutra (prayer), it contains the
core teachings of Happy Science, it was inspired by Shakyamuni Buddha’s consciousness and
therefore has the power to purify our minds with the light of Buddha. This prayer has 10,000 times
more power than the Lotus Sutra or Heart Sutra of Buddhism.

Okawa ‘s new religion has a spiritual explanation The “one Law of God is divided into seven colors
of spiritual, not physical, essence, representing the differing natures of the ninth-dimensional
inhabitants. These colors are: Gold, representing the Law and Mercy, and the color of the Buddha
(Sakyamuni in the former age and Okawa in the present age); White, representing Love, and the
color of Jesus Christ; Red, representing Righteousness or Miracles, and the color of Moses; Blue,
representing Philosophy and thought, and the color of Zeus; Green representing Nature and
Harmony, and the color of Manu (the first man in Indian mythology and author of “The Code of
Manu”); Purple, representing Order and Propriety, and the color of Confucius; and Silver,
representing Science, and the color of Isaac Newton (Okawa 1991c, pp. 182-85; Niju Isseiki
1991,pp. 106-107)

Let me conclude with what Ryuho Okawa wrote in his book “The Golden Laws.” He explains the
true history of humankind through the eyes of the Eternal Buddha revealing extraordinary facts
about the souls of individuals, who influenced our history and the world as it is today.

The spiritual Truth of Eastern figures in human history (including the Middle Eastern region)
Moses, Elijah;
Krishna was born as Jesus of Nazareth in 4 B.C. Heere we find that Jesus was Krishna in an early
incarnation which does present his unified theory on spiritual origins.

He explains: (4 B.C. - 30 AD), also known as Jesus of Nazareth or simply Jesus is the central figure
of Christianity, a Savior and the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament. From the point of view of
the Spirit World, Jesus Christ is one of the highest spirits in the 9th dimension who shares the
ultimate responsibilities for the planet Earth. Previously he was born on earth as Krishna (4700
B.C.) and later on as Clario in Egypt. Whilst preaching on earth, Jesus Christ was directly guided
by El Cantare to whom he often referred to as “Father”. The teaching of love, which gave Jesus’
message its universality and held the key to his teachings becoming a world religion, in fact, was
guided by one of El Cantare’s brother souls, Hermes.

Later on part of the life form known as Mohammed was reincarnated as Swiss priest Ulrich (or
Huldrych) Zwingli (1484 – 1531) known as the leader of reformation in Switzerland. The true
earthly lives of the spirit of Shakyamuni Buddha are: La Mu (the Mu continent - 17,000 years ago),
Thoth (Atlantis - 12,000 years ago), Rient Arl Croud (the Incan Empire - 7,000 years ago),
Ophealis (Greece - 6,500 years ago), Hermes (Greece - 4,300 years ago), Ryuho Okawa (Japan -
present reincarnation).

Numerous other names are mentioned: Vishnu, Shiva, Yao (also known as Taotang Shi), Shun Yu
the Great Nagarjuna, Honen T’ien-t’ai Chih-I Bodhidharma Mencius Hsun-tzu Lao-tzu Chuang-tzu
Wang Yang-ming Ame-no-Minakanushi-no-Mikoto, Taka-Mi-Musuhi-no-Mikoto
Kamu-Musuhi-no-Kami Amaterasu-O-Mikami, Yamato-Takeru-no-Mikoto, Shotoku Taishi or
Prince Shotoku, Saicho Kukai, also known as Kobo Daishi, Genshin, Shinran, Eisai, Dogen Zenji,
Nichiren, Kanzo Uchimura, Masaharu Taniguchi, Shinji Takahashi

Influential teachers of the western world are also included

Michael Nostradamus, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, John Davison Rockefeller,
Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Plato, Georg
Wilhelm, Friedrich Hegel, Aristotle, Solon, Socrates, Seneca the Younger, Marcus Aurelius, St.
Augustine, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Aquinas,
Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Charles Robert Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche,
Soren, Aabye, Kierkegaard, Karl Theodor Jaspers, Zeus, Apollo.

All people are reincarnated. It’s not a surprise that Emanuel Swedenborg is also found among his
list described as a famous Swedish scientist, theosophist and mystic who wrote prolifically on his
travels to the Spirit World and recorded his discoveries in 18 theological works, of which the best
known is “Heaven and Hell”. Emanuel Swedenborg was one among those in recent history who
have seen the Akashic Records in the Real World while still incarnate on Earth. His soul came from
the Tathagata Realm of the 8th dimension in the Spirit Word and previously was reincarnated as
John the Baptist, who had baptized Jesus Christ about 2000 years ago and a famous priest Genshin
(942-1017) who had a great influence on the founding of the Pure Land sects in Buddhism.

To sum this up, Ryuho Okawa’s new religion is a combination of all the old ones, he being the
conduit of spirit communication.

Websites where there teachings and books can be found are

www.kofuku-no-kagaku.or.jp/en/
www.happyscience-usa.org
www.happyscience-uganda.org
www.irhpress.co.jp/whatis/index.html
www.okawabooks.com
www.changeyourlifeandworld.com
global.the-liberty.com

More can be read of the leader and his history - Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 1995
22/3-4 http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/jjrs/pdf/454.pdf

Well spoken testimonies are found all over the web, but here are those who hold the opposite view-
Calling them a cult 'MLM' The American Dream Made Nightmare

http://mlmtheamericandreammadenightmare.blogspot.com/2012/06/happy-science-has-exhibited-un
iversal.html

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