The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
Kagawa Tells
His Philosophy
Of Existence
Noted Japanese Christian
Leader Describes His
Outlook on Life.
BY TOYOHIKO KAGAWA
Distinguished Japanese Christian Leader

Distinguished Japanese Christian Leader
tAs told TO William Axling. Tokyo
The big and potent truth in my
philosophy is possibility. In this
world we experience not only scien-
tif1c facts but our experience goes
out into world of possibilities.
OF these possibilities there are
three. There is the possibility Of
restoring past values, the possibility
of presenting and enhancing pres
ent values, and the possibility Of
creating new values in the future.
The more we develop our con-
scious life the more deeply will we
enter into life's possibilities. How
ever, the more we are absorbed with
the physical and the material, the
less will we enter into a realization
OF llfe'S largest possibilities.
If we develop our instructive life
we increase our powers of adjust
ment to environment and situations.
Some insects, moved by their in
stincts, are able to attack their en-
vironment. Unless, however, they
are fully awake they lack the power
of adjusting themselves to this en-
yironment.
Personality, Consciousness
When we come to personality we
discover the marvellous attribute of
consciousness. The present and The
future are harmonized in personal
lty. Conscious reality and creative
Ideal meet in personal consciousness.
This wonderful existence Of spirit
or conscious life is the one and only
pathway to a recognition of reality
of the Cosmos-the absolute posi-
bility.
These are, however, but other
terms for the omnipotent God, who
makes it possible for conscious per-
Sonality to come into being. The
more we open our total personalities
to God, the more will we come into
a realization of lifes richest posi-
bilitieS.
The so-called material world itself
is an expression of God-centered
possibility 1t is an interesting fact
that quantum mechanics, with its
theory of waves of energy aG enum-
Grated by Heisenbery, points to a
world of possibilities as against the
outgrown theory of casualty. There
fore, the science of facts and the
life of faith in no way contradict
each other.
Possibilities of Tomorrow
In the material world, with its
waves of energy, we are more con-
cerned with facts. But through the
so-called material world we have
the promise of a world where we are
privileged to enter the life of pos
sibilities. For instance, We know
nothing about tomorrow. 1t has
not come into reality.
Yet we may count on many things
tomorrow. In other words, we may
believe in the possibilities of tomor-
row.
1t is an astonishing fact that even
in the realm of pain and distress
the God of infinite possibilities en-
ables us to adjust these hanoicaps
with the higher plane of possibilities.
Thus, psychological possibilities can
be so adjusted to physical weak
nesses and defects as to win the
victory over them.
And If we fall short in our effort
to make this readjustment, then
creative consciousness, re-enforced
by moral power, can supplement the
psychological.
Defeat Not Necessary
If a man is near sighted he can
avail himself of psychological pos
sibillties and resort to glasses. if
his oversight grows worse he can
get his friends to read to him. There
is never any need of going down in
defeat. Latent possibilities ever open
the way to victory.
This marvellous Cosmic conscious
love constantly at work readjusting
and redeeming evil in the world is
particularly manifested in history
through the life and death of Jesus
Christ.
Indeed, II We possessed such con-
scious love as characterized Christ
this worlds pain and distress would
fade into insignificance. Then even
wrong and evil would be redeemed
and moral conditions restored.
Through this wonderful manifesto
ton of conscious love in Christ we
have the right to believe that the
God of absolute possibility is love
Let distressed souls take hope!
Life teens with possibilities! My
philosophy of love, redemption and
creation points to the fact that in
finite possibilities lie all around us
and ahead. AS the japanese prov
erb runs. IF one waits there will
dawn better day to sail the seas.