This article focuses on the objectives and means of attaining these of a Japanese new religion, Sekai Kyusei Kyo (Church of World Messianity) in Brazil, often referred to simply as Messianica. Messianica is a millenarian movement intent on constructing a new world, a world without sickness, principally through the practice of johrei or healing by the transmission of divine light. It has built a number of models of the earthly paradise it seeks to create including three in Japan, one at Saraburi in Central Thailand and one at Guarapiranga in the state of Sao Paulo, about forty kilometers west of the city of Sao Paulo. On average 50,000 followers and interested parties visit Guarapiranga every month. The model of paradise at Guarapiranga is also what is called the Solo Sagrada or Holy Site for the whole of Latin America, and on special occasions Messianica members from Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil and elsewhere on the continent will assemble there. Messainica also intends to built a City of the New Age in Brazil, probably in the South , by the year 2010. This city will be governed according to the Laws of Nature- this notion has a similar significance to the idea of God in the Christian tradition- as expounded by Messianica's founder Mokichi Okada (1881-1956). The leadership of Messianica believes that Brazil can become through its adherence to johrei and the construction of such New Age cities the principal means of saving the planet from self-destruction. By demonstrating the benefits -spiritual, material and moral- that derive from living according to the Laws of Nature these cities will act as catalytic converters, so to speak, encouraging people everywhere to demand from their rulers the same salutary conditions and the institutions - legal, moral, political, cultural- that will ensure their survival. The motivation behind this pursuit of a world-without-sickness is derived from the belief that it is only on earth that the individual can develop spiritually and in every other way to the full. For this reason the earth must be made perfect through the practice of johrei and obedience to the Laws of Nature.