Claim. The Fall is a disease of self-centered love that propagates through lineage; the cure requires inverting its mechanism — replacing self-centered love with God-centered self-denial — because the original disorder was denying God’s order and centering on the self.
Elaboration. SMM diagnoses the Fall as a love-disease: “What is the disease that humankind developed after the Fall of Adam and Eve? Human beings caught the disease of Satan-centered love, and because of that disease of false love, they have been multiplying Satan’s lineage ever since” (5.2. How to get out of the realm of Satan (the realm of the Fall), God’s Will-437). The cure has to reverse the order: “The disease of the Fall started when Adam and Eve denied the proper order, denied the principles of heaven and earth and the environment established by God, and engaged in self-centered love. Thus, to cure yourselves of this disease, you must deny yourselves and make God the absolute center of your lives” (ibid, 92-255, 1977.4.18). The mechanism of escape is specifically other-directed: “if you deny yourself and put God in the center of your thinking and your life, Satan will no longer control you; instead God will come to you and take charge of you” (ibid, 92-264, 1977.4.18). Self-denial is therefore therapeutic, not asceticism for its own sake.
See also. fallen-nature, restoration