Claim. The Fall is reread as an archangelic failure of loyalty and filial piety to God; restoration is therefore the project of re-establishing those virtues, not merely repairing forensic guilt.
Elaboration. SMM relocates the origin of the Fall to a loyalty-failure: “the archangel should first have fulfilled his duty of loyalty and filial piety toward God. The Fall came about because he failed to do so. Consequently, the providence of restoration is to establish loyalty, filial piety, and virtue” (CSG 14.4 §1, 14-209, 1964.11.4). The implication is structural — God “installed loyalty, filial piety, and virtue in the center of our minds, all religions and paths of faith are destined to uphold them.” Even Jesus’s mission is glossed in this register: “Jesus should first have established the way of loyalty, filial piety, and virtue. The high priest should then have established loyalty, filial piety, and virtue, and then Satan would have been subjugated.” Restoration is therefore the recovery of the unbroken filial relationship that the archangel severed, with indemnity as the cost of getting back what was lost.
See also. csg-the-ages-of-servant-and-adopted-son-precede-true-sonship