Today, you who live in the human world can observe spiritual phenomena centering on the human world. Regardless of time and place, religious people as well as all the other people live in an environment where they have become intertwined with the spirit world according to some inheritance of the spirit world; such is the undisputed historical fact. The fact that through the course of history or through our daily life such things do take place can be witnessed through dreams or other mysterious experiences, and this holds true even if we do not believe in a religion. So when you look at the spirit world, it is divided between good and evil spirits, and receiving its influence our world is also divided into good and evil people. This is the logical conclusion. For this reason, what is the proper concept of an evil person? There are those who receive the help of good spirits and there are those who receive the help of evil spirits, and we draw the conclusion concerning good or evil persons based on these two types of internal content. (131-167) What has the spirit world been doing up to now? What have our ancestors been doing so far? Those who are trying to add burden on the earth are the evil spirits, and those who are trying to take the burden away from the earth are what kind of spirits? [Good spirits] They are the good spirits. Why are they good spirits? Good spirits stand on the side of God, and the reason that they are good is because they have aligned themselves with God. Then, what is the best of all the good? You have to understand this clearly. You cannot have a haphazard attitude toward good and evil. When we consider which one among all the good stands out as the best, the answer is that rather than one who wants to take the burden of an individual, the one who is trying to bear the burden of the whole family is the better person. One who takes responsibility for the family is better than the one who takes responsibility for an individual. Isn't this so? [Yes] Why is this so? It is because this is the way God is. This is the way that God works. What is the purpose that God has been pursuing through the providence up to now? It is not for the sake of the happiness of one individual man, or to achieve some individual goal. He has been toiling in order to reach the goal that the whole world desires. The purpose of seeking after the individual is that, having found the individual, one can seek after the family, and the reason for pursuing after a family is for the sake of finding the tribe. In this way, the scope has to continually expand in order to reach the levels of people, nation, and world. (62-191) The reason that Christianity has become a world religion is that in each era whenever they encountered difficulties, they sacrificed, and for the fulfillment of the much desired Heaven, the ideal kingdom of Heaven, ultimately they sacrificed everything including their lives to fill up the internal content. When the individual content was about to overflow, they moved on to the era of family level. Although we are not aware of it, God brings the resolution. If there were other such people, then I do not know about them, but who is one that helped them go beyond the individual era and reach to the family era? It is God who did that. By mobilizing the spirit world focused on the directions that He would give through the spirit world, "You should heed this direction," God links to the environment. Every such time, the saints or prophets who receive the revelations were not in line with the position and pace of their era and environment. The opposite phenomena took place. This is the reason that they could not be understood. (168-82) What you have to reflect on is the fact that the spirit world is active twenty-four hours a day without any rest. You have to understand that it transcends time and space. Does the spirit person in spirit world need a time for rest? [No] You should think about it. How amazing is that. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? [It's a good thing] What is so good about it? Why? (107-13) The history before the third seven-year course began and the history from now on when the third seven-year course has begun are very different. Centering on this third seven-year course, the evil forces will diminish and the good forces will be on the rise. Therefore, you have to understand that this period of the third seven-year course is the time when the spirit world and the earth are supposed to communicate. In the spirit world, evil spirits, good spirits and spirits who are in between exist simultaneously. Just as people are supposed to pass through the stages (formation, growth and completion) through our reaching the third seven-year course and instituting the course, what will happen is that the way will open up for the good spirits to Communicate with people on earth. This has to come about. Because the formation and growth stage remain in the realm of Satan's dominion, and because they are within the domain of the evil forces, the evil spirits have played the primary role and evil people were able to control all of this world. However, from the institution of the third seven-year course, this situation will begin to turn upside down. When the intersection of good and evil takes place, the spirit world will descend, and evil spirits are the first to come down. Isn't the time of intersection the time when the middle-level spirit world is surpassed and we have crossed over to the good spirit world? When we do go over, good spirits and good people will be on the rise while evil spirits and evil people will decline. Until now, good and evil have gone up at times and have gone down at times, intersecting in a disorderly manner, but from now on, I believe that we will enter a new era when good and evil will be separated completely. Therefore, what will become the problem from now on? When the good individual, and the good family, tribe and people, and the form of a good nation centered on that individual can rise above the level of the nation the level that Satan has formed, we will enter the era when goodness will completely prevail in the whole world. (75-193) Suppose that there was a group that had the power that amounted to one hundred. In order to overcome it, one must combine forces to reach one hundred ten, one hundred twenty or two hundred. Thus, through the process called war, humanity unconsciously moved into the domain of development in clusters or in synthetic manner. When there is a fight, there will always be a division into the good side and the evil side. God controls the good side while Satan controls the evil side, but the good side always wins the ultimate victory. The good side has always won. In the end, this history of conflict is man's history of war after the fall, but humanity has not been aware of the fact that what took place in the background is the history of war between the good spirit and the evil spirits. In this fight over people, even spirits who have passed away combine their forces to fight. Good people are helped by good spirits and evil people are helped by evil spirits. In this way evil people go to the side of Satan, while the good people go to the side of God... Humanity does not know that the physical and the spiritual come together in this manner, furthering the history of conflict. (161-13)
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