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　　In the first place, it goes now without saying that all things in the universe are moving according to the law of the spiritual primacy over the corporeal existence. Every action of the physical phenomenon originates in the spiritual world, and this origination is projected into the corporeal world; so naturally, there is some time lag between the origination and the projection and how long the time lag will be depends on the dimensions of that phenomenon. More specifically, in a quick case it takes only a few days, while in a very slow case it takes several years to complete the process of projection. However, according as the world turns into the Age of Day the time lag gets shorter, so it seems to have been much shortened recently. Actually, the spiritual world is now in a very chaotic condition that has never occurred, and at the same time, changes are very radical; this indicates the end of the world well enough.

VAST AND CONSPICUOUS ACTIVITIES OF THE EVIL DEITIES

　　The most conspicuous at present is the desperately energetic activities of evil deities. After all, though they have been very powerful over the world for several thousands of years, as their destiny of downfall comes near, they attempt even more desperate struggles of a drowning man, and are abusing their violent power win or lose. Evil spirits have their own masters, of whom the Red dragon and the Black dragon are now most active and the number of their clans amounts to as many as nearly one billion; that's awful. These clans have also the first, the second and the third classes and they play the roles depending on their classes. Even they, the evil spirits, they dedicate themselves faithfully to carrying out the tasks given as orders from the top. This is because they have chances to be promoted according to the merits and granted rewards after examination of services. Of course, every single order is issued by the master, who sinks into a chair at general headquarters, and is conveyed through spiritual cords to the secondary guardian spirits that are possessing human beings. On this occasion, some clan members work upon the humans whose status or classes correspond to those of the clan members concerned. Their mission is to try every possible means to induce humans to do evils, and that reflects eminently on the present social situation; this is very troublesome. Besides, the methods they use are extremely crafty and cruel; for example, a lower-level human would be made to commit atrocious crimes such as murder-robbery, or acts of violence, while people being a little higher, to practice fraud, commit forgery of money or securities, or counterfeits of paintings and calligraphic works, or to lead women into temptation with sweet words; the evil spirits find it very amusing to make humans commit adultery and the like. In the case of higher-level people, using sophisticated technique, the evil spirits make them commit intellectual crimes under the mask of goodwill: to trick someone out of his or her property, make money by deception, bribery, corrupt practices, tax evasion, concealment of goods, black-market, etc., and, further more, to have women drink alcohol to toy with and the like things are also their habitual crimes.

　　Once whichever practices the above mentioned are discovered, the people concerned will become criminals being against the law, and everyone will see them as bad people, but there are some other cases in which evil spirits make people wear masks of good creatures and commit bad deeds. Many of these people are rather members of middle-class or upper-middle-class, especially among the educated class, so they require extra attention. For example, they speak or write about theories which seem right to everyone or so-and-so-ism and make the public believe as truths, so that people come to trust them, behind which, however, they do the opposite things. Since such kind of people are highbrows, of good repute and extremely dexterous, it is very difficult to know whether they are right or wrong. Many of these are found also among politicians, celebrated controversialist, and those who are of high social standings and considered important by general people, so we must not be off our guard against such fellows.

WHAT GOD SEES AS GOOD

　　The most difficult to deal with is that people are eager to do what they believe is good, resulting in what is bad. The May 15 incident and the February 26 incident are the good examples. In the extreme case, some higher-ups go so far as to risk their lives for what they believe are good and right, only to bring about the total opposite: bad and wrong consequences. The war criminals who have been executed recently are, of course, such kind of people. There is a sin which people are wholly unaware of. I mean the persons who are very pitiable because they devote themselves to putting into practice what they think are great theories, but actually they are, despite their intention, doing harm to humankind. Those I have explained above are all manipulated by the evil deities, but they are too blindly absorbed in science to be aware of the real situation by any means.

　　We find, however, some highest-class people who by far outstrip the others. As such individuals listed the founders of religions, great scholars who have established new theories or made new discoveries, distinguished thinkers, etc.; anyway, they are superhuman-type. So, they often have been objects of reverence and looked up to as idols for several centuries after death. Persons of this type have no slightest evil intentions and never act for their own interests at all; some of them are so honorable as to have devoted their whole lives to what they believe are for the real benefit of humankind. But from my standpoint, the achievements of those great persons have the harmful effects to humankind as well as the beneficial, so there are many cases where it is impossible to judge the merits and demerits.

　　It is needless to say that these great people have nothing to do with the evil deities, but some instances show that though their work had been beneficial until some point in time, as the years go by, it became more injurious than beneficial. It is true of not only scholars but also religious figures. We often see and hear that a certain religion which was great at the time of foundation, after a lapse of years, weakened discipline, became listless, conflicts occurred and depraved individuals emerged, so that the religion has changed into a negative or rather malefic aggregation of people. The same process can also go on in the domain of science. It often happens that at the time of discovery the theory was so highly esteemed as to take the world by storm, but in the course of years it turns a harmful doctrine.

　　To sum it up, all and everything present themselves as God's providence. In the process of evolving civilization, good and evil war against each other, light and darkness as well as beauty and ugliness mingle together, so that they, as a whole, are advancing step by step from one level to the next toward the ideal world. This is also the revelation of the depth of Providence, so you should know it is far beyond human understanding.

“The Activities of Evil Spirits,” Teachings of Meishu-sama, Volume Two, 1968, page 34.

“The Activities of Evil Spirits,” Foundation of Paradise, 1984, page 87.

“The Nature and Behavior of Evil Spirits,” A Hundred Teachings of Meishusama, no date, page 111.