is a religious text written by Onisaburo Deguchi, the co-founder of the Japanese religious organization Oomoto. Composed in 1904 and published in 1905, it was one of Onisaburo Deguchi's earliest written works. Contents. was first published in May 1905 as a series of 14 volumes composed by Onisaburo Deguchi in 1904 at Ayabe. In 1925, these 14 volumes were republished as a single book. explains that the various are manifestations of the single Great Source (Supreme God of the Universe). It also contains criticisms of the Russo-Japanese War. The current Japanese-language edition is a 1985 revision of the 1925 edition. The 1985 edition has 4 parts: Translations. An abridged international edition of with 792 numbered paragraphs has been translated into Esperanto, and subsequently from the Esperanto edition into Brazilian Portuguese and English. The abridged international edition has 4 parts. The dates given below are lunar calendar dates. Theology. In , there are three elements of God (in Japanese: ; also referred to in the text as Ame-no-Minakanushi 天の御中主) that pervade the universe: spirit (魂), power (力), and body (身). Deguchi's three divine elements are derived from 's , which are , , and .