If Adam and Eve had reached maturity, God would have blessed them in marriage.
Had they been united by the love of God, they would have produced children free of inherited sin. But because Adam and Eve joined with Satan through the act of unprincipled love, their descendants were the children of the Fall, and the world came under Satanic rule.
Now the identity of Satan, the serpent in the Garden, has been revealed. How he became the father of mankind is now clear. How mankind has inherited the original sin from Adam and Eve is disclosed.
Because Satan tempted Adam and Eve to turn away from God and thus to die spiritually, he was a murderer from the beginning. Since the Fall, Satan has continuously accused mankind. Even now, he is constantly trying to alienate man and woman from God.
Ever since Satan dominated Adam and Eve, he has ruled the world in a pseudo-form of the Principle. With the accumulation of the sins and evils of mankind, Satan's power increases, and the number of his subjects increases.
Satan's servants, known traditionally as evil spirits, are either fallen angels or evil people in the spirit world.
Most people are unaware of the continual presence of both good and evil spirits.
Psychiatrists quickly dismiss spirit possession and obsession as explanations for cases of schizophrenia and multiple personality.
The psychologically disturbing aspects of childhood are treated as the cause of emotional maladjustment and psychosomatic illnesses. Treating such disorders would be much simpler if the effects of spirit influence were also recognized.
Spiritual entities are visible to those whose spiritual senses are acute. Evil spirits can exercise power over people on earth only as long as people become their objects for a reciprocal relationship of give and take. It is people who attract Satan by making a base for him.
Evil is produced as one maintains a relationship with Satan. If we rid ourselves of the Satanic elements inherited from Adam and Eve, Satan becomes powerless, for there is then no rapport between him and us.
Lucifer deceived Eve when he said: "You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Gen. 3:4-5)
Satan continually deceives people, inducing them to do his will. Satan has been very clever in hiding his identity. No matter how many searches were made for him, he remained safely hidden until his crime was discovered and his true identity revealed.
Even the most despicable criminal may live safely as long as his crime is unknown to the world. Satan was able to rule the world because no one had detected his crime and accused him before God by exposing it.
Today, however, Satan's secret crime has been revealed, and the battle between human beings and Satan, or good and evil, is coming to a decisive, final encounter.
For the final victory, each of us must arm ourselves with an understanding of Satan's crime as revealed in the Principle, then confront and defeat Satan with this powerful weapon.
God did not disclose Satan's secret in the scriptures, but only intimated it through symbols and parables. It is the responsibility of humans to detect the secret of Satan, prosecute him before God, and subjugate him completely.
Young Oon Kim