Claim. In the restoration era, the spirit world — God, angels, and ancestors — actively cooperates with earthly descendants to drive them toward the Unification Church’s mission of restoring the homeland.
Elaboration. SMM describes a coordinated heaven-earth pressure: “The time has come when people of the past, people of the present, people of the future, and even people who have died and gone to the spirit world can cooperate in restoring the homeland. That is why many people’s ancestors are coming down to them. If these elected descendants do not respond to the Unification Church, their ancestors are causing them sickness and problems, while at the same time offering them medicine and solutions” (CSG 13.1 §4, 290-172, 1998.2.18). The mechanism is not personal power: “This is not happening through my power. God and the ancestors are becoming one; the angelic world and the ancestors are becoming one. They are driving the earthly world into a corner where no one can deal with the problems – the problems particularly of the family.” The spirit-world cooperation closes off escape routes from the providential call. SMM names God himself “the King of the secret emissaries … the supreme commander who is appearing in this satanic world to restore the homeland” (ibid, 29-48, 1970.2.16) — making restoration a divine-spirit-world joint operation in which earthly members are mobilized agents.
See also. spirit-world