Great Construction
The Conflict Between Good and Evil
Doubtless there has not been a time or place in the long history of humanity when and where there has not been conflict between good and evil. From international relations on a large scale to the individual and family on a small scale there is no exception. The same is true even in the world of religions. World Messianity as well devotes itself to salvation from conflict, one of the three scourges of humanity—disease, poverty, conflict—although it recognizes that conflict will be unavoidable until a certain time. Look! The fact that the Pharisees and their like obstinately use one means or another to seed discord to impede the growth of World Messianity is entirely a conflict between good and evil, a battle between God and devils, a war between the true God and that which is false.
Of all the new religions, there is probably none that has been the target of attack as much as World Messianity. And there is a good reason for this. All will most likely want to know about this reason, so I will address the issue. The divine spirit in charge of the great transformation of this world wields the power of the Messiah, so for those in the world of evil, the threat is unprecedented. These are their last hours, their death throes. Therefore, as World Messianity progresses, evil forces are curtailed, and they are forced to the decisive fate of either repentance or elimination. They are aware of this threat and are using any measure to avoid it. As a result, they make frantic efforts to obstruct our activities.
This is the situation, and the followers of evil number in the tens of thousands, so many they cannot be counted. There is a leader, of course, and subordinates of higher, intermediate, and lower ranks each with power suitable to their rank. In order to obstruct World Messianity, members of the evil forces select promising individuals and spiritually possess them one by one. These individuals are of course atheists, materialists, and rarely there is the person who believes in God, but these are cases where, propelled by some evil thought, the believer becomes captive of evil forces. When evil forces possess, they make free use of the individual, have them at their beck and call. The way evil forces possess is to occupy the brain and usurp thoughts. For example, the thought that World Messianity is exasperating, that it irritates, is disagreeable, that one should “get” World Messianity, that someone has to “give it” to World Messianity floats stubbornly in the mind. In the case of intellectuals, though, a thought appropriate to their level is caused to appear. In these cases, the notion might be that it is good for society when superstitious and malign religions such as World Messianity are crushed.
In this regard arises an interesting phenomenon and that concerns World Messianity’s periodicals. They contain only good articles with not one bit of negativity, and when read, the plans of the evil forces are set back, so the evil forces work to keep the periodicals from being read as there is nothing they fear more. They fear them because they suffer when they read World Messianity’s materials. This is a point often conceded when an individual who was possessed repents. A good test of whether an individual is possessed by evil forces or not is to place in the household the periodicals somewhere all can see. Household members who take them in their hands and read them are good people; it would no mistake to conclude that those who do not even look at them are possessed by evil forces.
As such, when World Messianity’s periodicals are read, evil spirits shrink, and the desire to interfere with World Messianity disappears. During intervals when the periodicals cannot be perused, one becomes a servant of the devil and resists God. The threat that World Messianity poses to the evil forces can be imagined.
Here I would like to give a word of caution about the fates of those possessed by evil forces. As the spiritual world becomes daylight, purification will increase, and cleansing activity become absolute, so it is inevitable that the evil forces will perish. This will be what is called the last judgment. God, however, wants to have saved as many individuals as possible, thus God is having us publish these warnings so that individuals may be released from control by the evil forces and have their physical bodies restored.
Kyūsei, Issue 54, March 19, 1950
translated by cynndd
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“Zen’aku no Tatakai,” which was originally published at the top of the first page of Kyūsei, Issue 54, March 19, 1950, and later, while Meishu-sama still alive, reprinted in the teachings anthology Goshinsho: Shūkyō-hen (Divine Writings: Volume on Religion), March 25, 1954, page 158, as far as is known has never appeared in English.