Claim. The spirit world is divided into good and evil realms whose conflict spills onto earth; good spirits work to lead evil spirits upward while evil spirits work to block goodness’s advance.
Elaboration. SMM describes the two realms as actively contesting: “The spirit world really exists, despite humankind’s general lack of awareness of it. Good and evil spirits are fighting each other even in the spirit world. There’s a battle going on in that world too. Good spirits battle continually to lead evil spirits to good places, and evil spirits are doing everything they can to prevent good spirits from going to good places. Evil spirits are connected to Satan, and people living on earth today are under their influence” (1.1. The good spirit world and the evil spirit world, 134-9, 1985.1.1). The classification is conditional rather than absolute: “Good spirits stand on the good side, not because they are completely good from God’s point of view, but because they have set the condition of having distanced themselves from satanic influence on earth.” The split is therefore historical-conditional and remediable, not metaphysical.