Japan Articles by Herbert W. Eustace

“Japan fulfilled her mission of compelling America to open her eyes. It was called Pearl Harbor but it was really the hand of God appearing in such language that America awoke. Japan seemed to do a very wrong thing like Judas but it was in neither case wrong. That is why Jesus told Judas to do quickly what was given him to do and get it over with so that he could rise higher. Japan is learning and rising higher through what she did and God has given her a most thoughtful leader in General MacArthur. He has a genuine sympathy with the whole thing. Russia will have to learn too but is now most useful in presenting the evil of the opposite of Christianity or true individualism and opening all eyes to behold the vileness within her gates.”

[Letter written 4/24/1947 by Herbert W. Eustace]

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“I have been requested to send out this copy of a letter written to a friend, as it was thought it might be of interest to you.”

[written by Mr. Eustace across the top of this letter]

1600 The Alameda,
San Jose, California,
November 29, 1935.

Dear . . . . . . . . :

For some time I have been wanting to write you to answer your question about what I think of World affairs at the present time and their ultimate outcome.

First may I say that I think that World affairs instead of, as so many think, being in a deplorable state, are really in the most hopeful state that has yet appeared. Of course, as a metaphysician you would know that it would have to be so, because progress is the law of being or as Mrs. Eddy says, “the law of God,” therefore every unfoldment must be a larger sense of good appearing no matter what the interpretation. It was because of this eternal truth that the Psalmist saw so clearly that if he went into hell behold infinite good was there also, there was no place and no condition into which he could be led where good was not All-in-all. That applies equally to this present unfoldment of World affairs.

Let us examine conditions and see just where we do stand. First of all, it should be frankly acknowledged that what is called The League of Nations is as essential for the welfare of European nations as is the league of States in America, called the United States of America, and which is maintained and governed by its League-its Constitution and the Supreme Court of the United States. The League of Nations is intended to be, and must finally be, to the nations of Europe what the Constitution is to the United States. It must regulate only the relationship of one nation to another and not interfere with the internal government of any nation. It is merely intended to protect each nation in its individual right to work out its own salvation in its own way and to prevent other nations from the slightest interference. Without the League of Nations how can the nations of Europe work amicably together while all the time in fear that one may be preparing to attack the other? The constant preparation for war is bound to cause fear of attack and wherever there is fear there is hatred and where there is hatred there is murder-the desire to destroy that which is causing the fear. But with that fear of interference removed is there any doubt that the nations of Europe would live in as friendly relationship with each other as do the different States of the Union in America? And does any thinking American doubt, for one moment, that were it not for the Constitution and its interpreter the Supreme Court that the States would quickly be raising barriers to protect their different interests in the form of tariffs, etc., which might lead sooner or later to serious quarrels?

It is the same human mind with its desires and selfishness, regardless of locality, and its baneful characteristics that are mastered only through severe discipline. America has attained her present position, because she has put herself through this discipline and has learned through numerous trials and tests that, as Massachusetts long ago declared, “a government of laws and not of men” is the only safe course to pursue, in order to secure happiness and freedom. Whenever there has been an attempt to substitute government by men for government by law there has been a mental revolution that has quickly overcome such an endeavor.

Eternal vigilance is, however, the only guarantee of safety. After one hundred and fifty years of progress and persistent holding to government by law and not by men, we are today confronted with public speeches and with other efforts of people, who have limited understanding of the real meaning of America, to promulgate the doctrine of “disciplined democracy”. By “disciplined democracy” they mean that democracy that is disciplined by a body of superfine, self-appointed guardians who think they know exactly the right course for Americans to pursue and would if they could, regulate the daily life and acts of each one. Fortunately the Constitution and the Supreme Court stand as a barrier against this domination, thus preventing revolution by violence.

To return to the League of Nations and World affairs. It is self-evident that until the last year the League has been in no position to test her power and authority. But today she is in that position-she is now confronted with the disagreements of two of her members. One determined to destroy the other regardless of most solemn agreements. Here is the League with its constitution confronted with the very purpose for which it was formed. What will she do about it? From all appearances, at this moment, it would look as though she were going to do, what in the end she will have to do if Europe is to survive, enforce her constitution and compel Italy to come out of Ethiopia and allow the League to settle the whole disturbance, exactly as the Supreme Court of America settles, under the Constitution, the difficulties that arise between the States.

If the League compels an amicable settlement what must the result be? The League will have learned and will have established its own power for righteousness. It will say to its members, “no more war; you can beat your swords into plowshares and your spears into pruning hooks, for from now on I am going to see that there is no more interfering between nations. Each must be allowed within its own boundaries to progress and develop with all its energy and ability. If Africa is to be developed I will open it for development under the authority given to me as the League of Nations and will protect the inhabitants from all selfish exploitation. All nations of the World will be welcome to participate in the development for the enrichment not only of themselves but for enriching and ennobling the inhabitants of the country developed.” It is absurd to assume that a so-called backward race is unwilling to be made richer and better in every way. What they all emphatically object to is being exploited and used as incubators to supply millions for what is rightly called “cannon fodder”.

If the League functions in the way the nations founding it intended it to function, then surely a bright day is dawning for Europe as well as for the whole world. It would usher in 1936 with a glory and assurance that has long been desired and should indicate the beginning of the entrance to the King’s Chamber in the Pyramid which, as you know, is calculated to take place during the latter part of 1936.

You might naturally ask, Why should the League operate in the case of two of its members, Italy and Ethiopia, when it did not operate with Japan and China? In the first place the two cases are not analogous although on the surface they seem to be so. One must not forget that the time is different, that the League while formed to protect its members from aggression had to grow to the point of unity where it could demand that for which it was established. It had to learn from experience and the bitter contempt of many of even its own peoples, because of its previous failure to do so, that it must function no matter how hard the task or else terminate in ignominy. It needed the experience of Japan and China to force it to perform its proper function or otherwise to die. It has been now given the opportunity right at home, not thousands of miles away, to prove its power or go out of business and it seems to be choosing to exercise its power.

To me there is another reason also why the League could not operate in the case of Japan and China and that is, that it was essential for the welfare of the World for Japan to do the very thing she has done and is continuing to do in establishing herself on the mainland of Asia. She has become a bulwark of protection to China from the machinations of Russia, which you must never forget, is the final menace to the World’s progress. Russia stands and always has stood as the Gog and Magog of the Scriptures, which was to come down from the North and threaten the civilization of mankind in the final conflict of Armageddon when the hosts of the godless are arrayed against the host of the godly. In other words when those who say there is no God are arrayed against those who acknowledge that there is God and that He is all that is; in other words All-in-all.

The final battle doubtless will not be seen as men fighting with material weapons but may appear as enlightenment fighting the dark weapons of destruction-destruction of all freedom of action through State control and the materialization of thought to the point of the utter despair of the heart’s cry, “Is there no God?” All this is coming under the guise of Communism and in perhaps a more subtle form as Fascism and Naziism undermining individual liberty.

Do you not think that Japan has been an instrument of God in preventing Russia from communizing the whole of China and spreading its virus to millions of others? Russia is afraid of Japan for she instinctively feels in Japan that Israelitish intent that goes forward fearlessly everywhere to bless mankind and not to harm it. Japan has shown this in her development of Manchukuo, where today progress is seen on every side and ten million Chinese are happy and satisfied, while across the border hundreds of thousands are starving to death and banditry is rampant through lack of intelligent government. In doing this Japan is showing how truly the old Samurai (the ruling class) are indeed a portion of the Israelites who became separated from their brethren in their journeyings to the Isles of the Seas in the West, the British Isles, and instead journeyed to the Isles of the Seas in the East, the Japanese Isles. In due time, after being nurtured and protected, like their fellow Israelites in the British Isles they became ready to perform their office as Israel; to stand with the sword of God, and to say to Russia and its Communism, “Stay where you are and fight out your own theories of godlessness with your own people and leave all others alone.”

With Japan on the East ready for action at any moment, Russia does not dare to move on the West, and consequently held in check. If Japan were not on the mainland, undoubtedly Russia would have absorbed the whole of China and have endeavoured before this to move on to the West also. No thinking person can doubt this. The battle of Armageddon-the determination to destroy freedom and individuality is being fought on all sides. Without freedom and individuality no progress can be found. You cannot have one without the other.

The attacks in America on “rugged individualism”, attempts at “regimentation”, focusing of all power in “Federal bureaucracies” “government of men instead of law”, “government ownership”, etc., are vicious attempts to undermine and eventually destroy all that spiritual America, the America of the Pilgrim Fathers, in other words what Christian Science really means. The need to protect America against these attacks is always present, for the negation must run side by side with the positive truth of Being and unless reversed will not be found the presence of God.

This reversing of the negative appearing of Mind must be kept constantly before one for as Mrs. Eddy says in an early edition of the Science of Man, “Matter held as shadow is the idea of God, but matter held as substance is a belief and error,” in other words if matter, material sense, is seen as the negative interpretation of Mind and reversed as such, it will be found the very presence of God, but if matter, the negation, is thought of as something of itself, as substance, and is not reversed, then it is “belief and error” and holds within itself all that there is to evil. This reversing is imperative and keeps one happy and busy, because when reversed even the very worst evil takes on the pinions of light.

Seeing things from this standpoint, how can one be anything but happy and confident because of the “joy that is set before” one? The end of prophecy and the entering into the King’s Chamber in the Pyramid, with its open coffer, the breaking down of all limitations, is verily at hand but, remember, it is an individual unfoldment requiring the utmost consecration to the one Mind as All-in-all, and the fulfilling in one’s own experience what Mrs. Eddy writes-I again quote from the Science of Man, “Do not think to deceive yourselves by deceiving others, for Wisdom will call you into judgment for all you think and act, and the tribunal before which your true position is tried and proved, is the demonstration that you are able to give of healing the sick, after learning the principle upon which this is done, and the only one by which you can succeed to the most marvelous instances of cure.”

The World is unfolding rapidly into the fundamental truth, into the acknowledgment that “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein.” You can afford to rejoice and be glad and actively watch the hand of God interpreting His own earth and heaven to you His own idea.

Very sincerely yours,

HERBERT W. EUSTACE.

Note: “Origin of Japan and the Japanese”, by Jenichiro Oyabe.