CHAPTER 49 – “The Genesis of Atonement”
What shall God do?
The devils have betrayed His love; and do betray those He loves. Yet, as the eternal ground of all reality (including theirs), still being intrinsically Love in His own unique and independent self-existence, God still loves the rebel angels.
The humans have betrayed Him, too; and are betrayed in turn by higher tormentors; and also betray whosoever they themselves can find to have power over.
Yet, still, God loves them, too.
God will do what He can, to mitigate the suffering that His beloved children cause, in their quests to affirm their own self-importance. Such a quest will always involve perverted suffering: for to make suffer, in pain or in pleasure, is to exhibit power over; and so to exhibit power over, in any perverted way, will be to make suffer.
Yet God has given them such power that they pervert.
And although He will limit it, He will not abrogate it–for He loves them.
He will let at least some of the consequences of their choices play out–for He loves them.
But neither will God, the omnipresent Love Most High, leave them alone. He will always be trying to call them back, because Love Most High knows they can only be happier, in the long run, if they are working with, rather than against, the source of their life and power. He will never let them destroy themselves utterly, in their mad lust for a freedom to be what they can never be.
For He loves them.
‘Them’, I say? ‘They’, I say?
‘I’ and ‘ME’, I say!