Claim. In the current age, evil spirits have descended to earth ahead of the good spirits; neurosis and ideological chaos are the surface symptoms, and good spirits will follow only when adequate conditions are made on earth.
Elaboration. SMM gives a periodization for spirit-world descent: “the people in the spirit world are descending to the earth, yet evil spirits have been descending before the good ones do. This is why the phenomenon of neurosis is occurring among people on earth. You did not know this, but now evil spirits have all descended upon the earth and invaded the human world. With the coming of the age of ideological confusion based on the democratic and communist worlds, evil spirits descend from the spirit world and cause spiritual and physical chaos. When good spirits descend to earth, however, they spread out around the evil spirits. Having descended upon the earth, they disperse the evil spirits and occupy the land these evil spirits had been occupying” (5.1. Position of our predecessors in the spirit world, 54-226, 1972.3.24). The age of spiritual confrontation runs ahead of social phenomena — modern mental-illness rates and ideological polarization are part of the operative spirit-world picture, not separate from it.
See also. csg-good-and-evil-spirits-fight-on-earth