Sunday 7 May 2017

The suffering of the ape, the unfortunate task of the tempter (Ape of God, 3)


But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest? (Mark Twain’s Autobiography)

 Man thinks the devil deliberately perseveres in his work and his attitude toward God. And yet that's only partly true. If the seducer and tempter meets a person who is a match for him, than this will evoke his rage, but somewhere deep inside him, an unconscious and deeply-felt hope will come up. For this resilient steadfast person brings the devil closer to salvation *.

For even in the devil, there is some harmlessness and innocence, there where God has put Its seed. Yes inside the devil as well, in what spiritual life God hasn’t done this? Are devils not also former angels, spiritual beings, and are they not also created by God? Aren’t they just derailed and got lost in their own desires and ideas about life? Hasn’t the devil become unwillingly the seducer of man, and will he have any work when man has been developed so far that he has grown above the devil's work? What will the devil have to do than to wonder what he is doing, what he is and what he is up to in an emptied hell?

What else does he have to do than wondering for what he lives when all his goals are solved on the planet that has become life and light?
The devil is blessed when this episode has come. For he can then choose for the long way back to the Father-Mother's House and take his rightful place between the angels or hold stubbornly to his inheritance and he will be destroyed than. And never in the cosmos will be heard from him again.

My blessings to you all
 
* The sorrows of Satan, Marie Corelli

Nr. 384