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Why is it so good?

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One question people regularly think of when I tell them that Satan made this world is “why isn’t it worse?”, meaning, why are there good things in it at all then?

I went through that in the last book, but there are some things that may be added.

First, he didn’t actually get what he wanted. He didn’t actually design the world; he made a wish list of parameters he gave to the Jewel, who did all the heavy lifting. Sanat Kumar was like an idiot boss who has a genius employee. He makes his idiotic requests, and the employee figures out how to get the closest to that with what’s actually possible. There were things about the world Satan didn’t like. Like, at all. He tried to change them, but then the world didn’t work. Like, the matter didn’t fuse on nuclear or chemical level. Life didn’t happen, or it remained single-celled forever. Or life happened and was quickly extinguished. Or the species that he wanted got extinct. Or the souls didn’t bind to the bodies. Basically, this is as bad as he could get it before the whole thing became unliveable.

Also, the Gods had a say, as I wrote in the book. They intervened to a point; its very foundations are cracked, allowing transcendence to manifest despite Sanat Kumar’s intent and commands, because the most fundamental layer of everything exists because of God, and the Jewel exists because of God’s plan and intent. This forced Sanat Kumar to just live with some things he absolutely hated, and wouldn’t have allowed them to exist if it were up to him. So, he intervened on the more superficial layer of civilization, when the layer of world architecture couldn’t be pushed beyond a certain point.

The thing is, Satan was never quite happy with what he got, or how it evolved. Some things he hated always seemed to emerge, no matter how hard he tried to suppress them. He would design the system so that oppressing and abusing others was more profitable and effective, and people would still find a way to love someone and care for them, making him irate. The selfish properties he promoted and tried to make more effective ended up creating profound unhappiness despite his propaganda. He designed everything so people would win by playing according to his rules, and most chose “mediocrity” or even “loss”, completely eschewing his rules and the game itself. Almost nobody wanted to win according to his definition of a victory. Instead, they instinctively approximated behaviours they remembered from Heaven, on some layer that wasn’t memory, so he couldn’t completely suppress it. When people embrace his rules and ideals, the entire structure collapses and they notice.

That doesn’t mean that this place is good, and that God is happy with it. Quite the contrary. It’s terrible, but not as terrible as Satan wanted it. He didn’t get his way completely, because his ideas are so fundamentally bad, that reality collapses when they are implemented fully. This leaves a broken compromise with what Satan wanted, and what he could realistically get, softened additionally by the fact that he was allowed to do this in the first place because God had his plans and ideas that had precedence.

So, that’s why beautiful things exist here; that’s why this place is a mixture. That’s why brahman permeates the world the way butter permeates milk. That’s why baby wolves are cute, and societies function when people instinctively emulate aspects of heaven on every level, and they fall apart when Satan gets his way. He designed it, but everything is made upon God, and within God’s mind.

Evil ideology

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I understand there’s a problem with communication that I tend to have when I write something.

It’s very concentrated. When I make a statement, I usually invested quite a bit of thought in it. Found out the facts, thought about them a lot, thought what they actually mean, explored the corollaries, mapped out the entire network of ideas around it all, and when I give you the conclusion, it looks like complete nonsense… and then you spend ten years slowly thinking about it, observing how things work, and you eventually get there.

One of those ideas, that I expressed in my latest book, is that the entire system of belief behind the French Revolution and American independence is essentially Satan’s ideology that is being sold to people in order to destroy them. The point of the whole exercise is to sell you ideas that will make you more like Satan, and less like the Gods.

Just listen to the words: independence, liberty, freedom, empowerment, emancipation, rights, democracy. You are conditioned to automatically feel good about them. You automatically assume they are good. And yet, if you take a look at any Satanic church, you will see that they profess the same ideals. They worship the same concepts. They think God is the problem you need to be emancipated from. They think heaven is an oppressive system and Satan is offering freedom. They think service degrades you, that transcendence is an illusion and you are an animal that needs to embrace its animal nature. The difference in belief between modern America and outright Satanism is essentially zero. This is not because Satanism is using American ideals to advertise itself. It’s because America is a Satanist project from its inception.

So, a statement that is so concentrated that it sounds absurd is in fact something that can be easily unpacked and verified. But let’s also dismantle those modernist mantras. Oppression, emancipation, empowerment, rights, democracy and so on.

Democracy is what exactly? Everybody gets a vote? Even Socrates understood how that works and why it’s a terrible idea. If you give everybody a vote, it means you’re empowering demagogues, not the people. Basically, most people are ignorant and disinterested. They don’t know how things actually work or what should be done, and they don’t even care. So, people who are experts in manipulating the masses will sell them propaganda and use them as means of empowering themselves. Since the demagogues are among the worst people in the world, this is whom democracy empowers and this is who actually harvests votes – the propagandists with money and an agenda. This was sold to you as the superior form of government – by the propagandists with an agenda.

Rights also sound good – I have rights, you can’t fuck with me. Until you understand that the people giving you your supposed rights are the ones most likely to fuck with you. In America, police will treat you like a slave; they will command you to lie on the floor like a slave and put you in chains, they will steal any cash you happen to have with some false excuse, they will pepper spray you or taser you if you show any reaction other than absolute submission to their authority, and they will read you your “rights” that essentially say that you are a slave and they are so hostile to you that whatever you do will be used as evidence against you, and your only recourse is an attorney who will represent you in a court system that’s basically been put there by the same system that put the police there to keep you enslaved and submissive. I explained the concept of rights to my son by saying that those are basically things invented by the state in order to sell you the idea that they are the ones you depend on in order to have them. Since they invented the concept of rights, they can also revoke it or modify it by making it into a mockery, for instance giving obvious enemies of everything good more rights and protections than they give normal people. They can also import hostile foreigners and pretend those are some victim category that requires special protections. There’s no end to the abuse of the concept, since it was originally designed with malicious intent in mind. I also told him that this concept was invented because they wanted to remove religion from legislature, because the concept of law was originally seen as provided by God, and implemented by the state. God said “don’t kill”, and the state then made it into laws against murder, with the entire infrastructure that enforces it. God said “don’t steal” and the state translated it into laws that protect property. God said “do not covet” and the state translated it into laws that define and protect the public morale and decency. Essentially, the state used to be an extension of religion, and certain Satanist groups hated that and invented an alternative legal system, based not on obedience to God and on the concept of duties, but on inverted assumptions; essentially, that killing you or stealing from you is bad not because God forbade it, but because you have inherent rights to life and property. Everybody has been brainwashed to no end into accepting this idiotic concept, and now you can’t even question it without zombies looking at you as if you questioned the existence of gravity. However, how is a right to life even a thing? Life by default ends in death. Not even life itself believes in the right to life. The state that claims to protect your rights will be the first to get you killed if it needs soldiers to defend it. The terrible slaughterhouses of first and second world war were a great example – oh, we’re secular states that believe in rights, so we’ll forcefully or deceptively recruit you to die for some foolish reason we made up. We’ll also kill people who disobey our authority. But yeah, we’re guaranteeing your rights.

I told my son that the worst thing that can happen to him is to be reduced to a situation where the state gives him what they think he has a right to. Basically, you’re doing fine not because you have rights, but because I have duties. It has absolutely nothing to do with the state, and everything to do with my relationship with God. Without God, you would have hell, of the kind my parents created for me, or the kind the state creates for people who are reduced to asking for social care. God is not some heavenly tyrant you need emancipation from. God is the silent source of good things that have happened to you. God is the reason why good people are good, and absence of God is why evil people are evil. God is the light and love behind duty, and absence of that light is why Satan invented the concept of rights and had his servants promote it. You don’t need rights when you’re surrounded by people who love you, as God commanded. You think you need rights to protect you from the godless people who want to hurt you and take advantage of you, and when you are in danger of them you get to understand that those exact ones invented the concept of rights so that they could cut you away from God’s love.

Satan used to spread propaganda about how he left heaven because he didn’t want to obey God, didn’t want to serve, didn’t want to live in tyranny. Sure. In fact, he couldn’t bear people being happy, free and loving each other. He wanted them to cry in oppression so that he could feel powerful, because when he saw powerful, free people in heaven, he felt hatred, and some kind of a miserable combination of envy, fear and deprivation that weak, depraved beings feel when they see strong, fulfilled ones. That’s how all his propaganda always worked – re-package depravity as emancipation. Re-package being small, hateful, envious and evil and hating the people whose magnificent, fulfilled and radiant state made him feel the full impact of his depraved nature by providing a point of reference, into being oppressed by them and unwilling to take it any more. It’s what you get in every single instance when you scratch the surface of all those modernist people supposedly fighting for emancipation, progress and liberation. You get a depraved Lesbian hating the fact that all normal women want to get married and have families, so she invents feminism – trying to convince them that they are oppressed and in need of emancipation, and finds support in rich people who want women as cheap workforce, and the state that wants women paying taxes. You think that’s exaggerated caricature? It’s the actual history of feminism. Look it up. All the women who came up with feminism in the first place were the rock bottom of the pool of human depravity. You would be hard pressed to find worse people anywhere. All their intentions were selfish and evil. Feminism exists because Satan hated women, and hated men and women being happy together even more, so he invented a “cure” for that. He thought if everybody was miserable, he’ll at least feel some malicious glee that is the equivalent of happiness in his depraved existence, as if that would help him.

Yes, that’s the root cause behind all those “mantras” – democracy, emancipation, freedom, rights. Hatred of God, pain of seeing fulfilled and happy people just hanging out, loving each other, respecting each other and praising God’s light. That’s what you’ve been sold, and why.

Scripts

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I mentioned “scripts” multiple times, and although I did define them, I think it went over most people’s heads, so I’ll try to do a better job now.

A “script” is a detached, autonomous astral agent of the world system, with its separate power supply, duties and order structure. It has permissions from the world owner to do a particular, very narrow thing, that can be inspected for sinfulness and injustices and is designed to pass the test. This is so that the owner and issuer of commands can not be blamed for the consequences. His fingerprints are never on the murder weapon. All evil is a result of complicated interactions of multiple systems, and each of the systems has an apparently innocuous, or even good apparent purpose.

For instance, there is a script that rewards you for respecting spiritual authorities and laws, and punishes you for disobedience.

There’s another script that tests you through temptation, so that the falsely spiritual people are weeded out, and the genuine ones are rewarded.

There’s a script that gives access to worldly wealth to those who have sufficient permissions.

Another script awards permissions based on the level of useful service to the world system.

The third script tries to persuade spiritual people that giving up permissions on the worldly systems is a sign of transcendence and liberation.

The fourth script attacks parasites who have low level of permissions, in order to punish freeloaders who earn money by fraudulent means and don’t give back to other people.

It all checks out. Every particular script can be tested for action and intent, and Satan can prove that their purpose is something good. However, the way they interact in practice will instantly deprive of resources anyone who is a threat to him, and then the anti-freeloader scripts will kill him. He will have clean hands, and won’t even have to issue orders. In fact, he only intervened personally in a negligible number of cases throughout history. The scripts do all the work. They are like AI that is so narrow in function that it perceives only certain things, and does only certain things, and is not allowed or able to do anything else.

Let me use Asimov’s three law Robots as an example how to commit crimes using means that are arguably designed to prevent the possibility of crimes. The Robots have three laws: don’t harm a human through action or inaction; obey orders by a human unless it breaks the first law; protect your existence unless it breaks the first or second law.

A Robot is smart, and distinguishes between the levels of authority. One would expect that its owner has the greatest authority, but that is not the case. The greatest authority is that of the legal authorities. For instance, if the owner tells the Robot to make him coffee, but a police officer calls the Robot on the radio and tells him that his owner is in immediate danger of attack within the next five minutes, the Robot will immediately obey the officer and act to protect its owner according to the first law. The contravening order to make coffee is completely ignored, based on the legitimate first and second law priorities.

So, how to kill someone using robots, who are designed to protect him? You call a person’s Robot concierge when you know that person is not at home. You apologise for the disturbance, and ask whether the Robot has any existing orders, or is free to do something for him. The Robot says that he needs to monitor incoming calls and things around the house when the master is absent, but a subordinate, lesser Robot is available. You thank him and ask to “borrow” the subordinate robot, or even several, because you want to perform a scientific experiment, that will nor be harmful to humans, will not expend resources and will only use some robot idle labour. The concierge agrees on those terms, leaves and sends you a subordinate robot. You then ask that Robot whether they received a package in the mail labelled “for scientific experiment”. The Robot confirms. You then ask the Robot to bring the package and open it, and bring a bottle of milk from the fridge. The robot complies, because all commands issued are safe. You then tell the robot to open the bottle that was in the package, and pour its content into the milk bottle. You tell it that it is by no means to return that bottle of milk to the fridge, because it is to be used for the scientific experiment only, and is not to be used by humans. The Robot complies. You then issue it orders to expose the tainted milk to light, sound, water and so on, in order to pretend that you are testing it. Then you order it to leave the bottles here, so that they are not used by humans, forget about the experiment and send cleaning robot here. The Robot complies and leaves. The cleaning Robot arrives, and you tell it to dispose of the empty bottle and package, and return the milk bottle to the fridge because the other Robot left it here by accident. The cleaning Robot complies. The human comes home, pours himself some milk, drinks it and dies.

That’s how the scripts work.

They are designed so that a terrible, lethal action can be broken down into an infinity of small, fragmentary actions that are each safe, legal and apparently beneficial, and they are implemented by “servants” that are partially blind, deaf and dumb, unable to see the bigger picture and unable to do anything that exceeds the spectrum of their design. And their master and author doesn’t ever have to move a finger to do anything; it’s all done automatically, by a horde of astral “robots” that are designed to do just one thing and not think about anything other than their job, and when something manages to survive the trap, Satan makes another specific script that handles this kind of an exception.

Wishful thinking

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I’ve been thinking about something that keeps popping up, in both literature and reality.

Basically, people portray the enemy as a diminished caricature, thinking this is already half the way to victory. Portray the enemy as a caricature and that will make him weak, and you strong. Then, as you lose, your entire world falls apart.

The counter-argument is always: “but if we say good things about the enemy, that will be just spewing their own propaganda”, as if stating facts about the enemy is somehow a hostile propagandistic act. Don’t let facts and evidence stand in the way of good propaganda, right?

People weren’t always this stupid, naive and indoctrinated. I watched WW2 films made by the US military, describing German air defence. It was excellent, and I don’t think anything of the sort could be made today without the author being accused of working for Hitler. The film starts by describing the mathematical and technical methods used by the Germans; basically, they will observe your aircraft, notify the air defence battery, make the calculations of your speed and direction, speed and direction of their FLAK ammunition, and calculate for the intersection with some statistical spread. Essentially, if you allow them to do this, you die. You will absolutely die because yes, those FLAK cannons can absolutely hit your aircraft all the way up there, they don’t make mistakes and they don’t miss. The only way for you to survive is to listen to these instructions and apply them diligently. You will pass their observation posts here. Then, change your direction according to the instruction sheet you received. Absolutely follow this to the letter, because our mathematicians did the calculations to thwart their mathematicians, and both know their stuff. Then fly for as long in that direction as that sheet says, and then at the exact moment it says change the direction again. What is that for? Well, you need to allow the German observers to notify the FLAK guys about your direction, speed and altitude. Then, you need to make sure that those numbers are incorrect by the time the guns fire, and when those shells explode up there, you will be elsewhere. If you’re not elsewhere, you will be dead because the Germans are excellent mathematicians and marksmen and they don’t miss. Have a nice day now.

Imagine this today – NATO stating something factually correct about Russia and China. That will never happen. You always have stupid stereotypes, people get promoted for making fraudulent, diminished reports about the enemies’ capabilities, and so on. Then, when their strategy fails, they make a surprised Pikachu face – how is it possible that the Russia didn’t go bankrupt, that they are economically thriving, that they are making all those superweapons? They must be getting the drones from Iran because they can’t possibly make it themselves? After all, they are a gas station masquerading as a country. The fact that they are routinely flying people to space longer than America, let’s ignore that. Also, how is it possible that Iran just closed the strait of Hormuz? Yeah, it was the obvious and expected move, but the people in the CIA who reported obvious and expected moves by the enemy got fired long ago, and the still employed people know how it’s done properly. Tell the politicians what they want to hear.

I always remember that key sentence from “Salvos”, Sicar’s response to Manos’ question as to how this whole mess is possible: “We must have underestimated the power of the Enemy and the Traitor. That is why Venas is dead, Hartia is defeated, and over half the legions have been freed.”

Yes, that happens when you underestimate the enemy. The enemy doesn’t become weak and stupid because you made statements to that effect. The Germans don’t start missing your airplanes because your propagandists state that their marksmen are all slaves from concentration camps who can’t aim. The Russians don’t run out of ammunition because you dreamt about it.

But let’s use the “Salvos” examples rather than the real world, lest people be too upset by the offence committed against their beloved propaganda. For instance, Salvos very early on notified the Adventurers’ Guild about Belzu – what level he is, that he uses curses and illusions, that he uses Mindreapers to amplify his magic and control hordes of monsters and the undead, and so on. It would be obvious to any rational actor that they are dealing with a very dangerous, rational strategist. Instead, everybody kept talking about a “rampaging Demon”, as if he’s another Lucerna who goes around and kills everything because he’s insane. They didn’t investigate his capabilities properly. Instead, they kept sending people to fight him, and everybody ended up dead. They kept calling him “the Primeval Demon”, as if his name and capabilities don’t matter, just his level. The problem was, his level was the least of their problems. It was his capabilities that got people killed. You approached him, and you found yourself in an illusion so convincing, you thought it was reality. It was like fighting Lord Mara from Zelazni’s “Lord of Light”. You are inside a dream, you fight fictions, don’t see actual attacks, don’t see the enemy where he is, see him where he isn’t, he fakes being injured or killed to deceive you, and then you are dead. Or, he curses you with something so strong it completely incapacitates you and you don’t know where it came from or how to fight it. People who had no business fighting Belzu got killed because they didn’t wear amulets of Greater Curse Resistance, or Aura of Greater Protection, or they fought him when he wielded the Sword of Alexander and they didn’t have a Divine weapon or shield. Or they didn’t have spatial senses or premonition to counter his illusions. Basically, they went with strength against deception and were easily defeated.

It’s not that the people who knew how it is to fight Belzu didn’t talk. It’s that the others didn’t want to listen. They didn’t ask. Edithe fought him, and nobody asked her for tactical advice; instead, they underestimated her for her levels, because a lvl. 170 must know better than a lvl. 100 even though that lvl. 100 is the only person with a Skill that’s a total antidote do Belzu’s illusions. Like, what could she possibly know that would be useful to us. Also, what would Salvos possibly know that’s useful – she just faced him multiple times in battle and lived, when higher-levelled people died. “We know everything there is to know about Demons”. Yeah, right. Also, it was constantly repeated that Belzu killed Mori Gladius – that was completely untrue. Mori Gladius and Salvos defeated Belzu in battle. He was forced to use up his best curses to fight Salvos clones, and he used up his Grand Skill to fight Mori Gladius. Mori defeated it with his own Grand Skill and was about to kill Belzu, when Levithus intervened and stabbed him behind his back. Mori and Salvos actually won, and the battle was lost when it became a completely different battle, against the general of Regnorex’s forces in the Mortal Realm. They keep misinterpreting the evidence and fighting against imaginary foes with imaginary properties, instead of just facing the facts and dealing with them properly.

Let’s return to this world. The Christians have all those ideas about fighting Satan, not being deceived by him, and so on. They read the Bible, see how he offered Christ things as temptation, and Christ refused. They see this as encouragement – they would do the same, or at least Christ would do it for them, as they live by his name. Oh, really? They would never kneel before Satan, accepting him as their God? All the while, they pray to the One God Creator of this world, who has all the power here, thinking that they are praising the Lord and giving proper credit where it is due. Somehow they manage not to see the part of the scripture where Jesus doesn’t contradict Satan when he offers him all the kingdoms of the Earth. Did Christ say “they are not yours to give, because that is the dominion of the Lord”? No, he didn’t. Instead, he called Satan the Prince of this world. So, when the Christians are praying to the Lord of this world, who are they actually praying to? In their desire not to give Satan power, they are completely misreading the battlefield.

Wishful thinking and diminishing the enemy doesn’t result in victory in a war, and it does nothing to diminish the enemy. If you want to diminish the enemy, you need to recognize where his assets are, and attack them. You need to be able to read the facts and reality correctly, and act accordingly. If the Enemy is too powerful or too well protected for Jesus and the angels of the Lord to attack him directly, then shut the fuck up about fighting him and try not to be here in the first place. If Satan is protected by the Word of God, who gave him power until his given time runs out, this means that during that given time no external force can touch him. Only his own sin can harm him. What you can do is not be a target, not be on the battlefield, not delude yourself with silly ideas about winning with power and virtue. Oh, you’ll say, but if we admit that Satan is that powerful, would that not make us afraid, and thus in his power? Of course it would make you afraid. You need to be. You could use a good dose of fear. People who are afraid of Satan and sin are less likely to foolishly do things that will make them his slaves. They will tremble in realization of their circumstances and pray to God for salvation, which happens to be the best course of action available to them. Who even told you that fear is bad? It’s the lack of fear in this place that makes you but a hapless victim. You have no basis for courage or self-confidence. Fear is your shield and prayer is your weapon. Stop acting as if you’re on a vacation in some amusement park. You’re in hell, in the dominion of Satan, and the only way out of his total control is through humble and sincere prayer to the Lord.

Power

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I hate it when the movies and literature portray Evil as powerful and dignified, while the Good is weak, emotional but manages to win with the “power of friendship” or some similar nonsense.

Evil is weak and small, and uses illusions and deception to pretend otherwise. The true powers of Good are so incredibly overpowering, the only reason Evil persists at all is the consistency of God – Word was given and this is the law now. In a battle of power against power, a battle of Satan against God wouldn’t look like a battle between Darth Vader and some weak “good guy”. It would look like a rat hunt. The power differential is like a galactic black hole against a hydrogen cloud. It’s not even funny. I tried to explain this in my last book, where Lord Shiva kills the worst super-demon with a single command, and then the actual problem is purifying the remains, because the demon’s existence turned his constituent kalapas into a deadly soul-poison. It’s not a fight; it’s garbage disposal. And, incidentally, that super-demon is orders of magnitude more powerful than Satan. Satan just happens to have permissions to use a God-made VR superweapon for a certain amount of time, and while it is so, the only thing that can harm him is his own sin. So, essentially, the only protection the evil ones have is the Word of God. Evil isn’t stronger in a fight. If it comes to a fight, it’s instant game over. You can’t fight against Shiva or Vishnu. They are so overpowered, they instantly win by just being there, if that is the Will of God. But if it isn’t, then they have to dance around the problem. That’s what creates the illusion that we’re in a contest of power between Good and Evil.

This is something I find annoying in Star Wars, where the Dark Side users are portrayed as inherently stronger. Everybody takes Evil too seriously in that sense. I mean, sure, it needs to be taken seriously in a sense that it’s a problem. It’s corruptive. However, if it corrupts you, it deprives you of true power; it doesn’t give it to you. In actuality, as you develop true virtue and goodness, you grow more “of God”, and power follows. As you reject God by embracing sin and evil, you lose not only virtue, but power as well. Tolkien gets this all wrong, making it a contention of power between good and evil; however, what he does get right is that Morgoth grows weaker by manifesting evils. He starts as being the mightiest of the Valar, and ends up being the weakest, easily disposed of into the Void. The only reason why it is easy for people to believe in the physical power of Evil is that this world specifically creates this illusion. If you could actually see how weak and decaying the evil souls are, how they are barely holding themselves together thanks to their physical form that allows them to persist for a while, you wouldn’t think them powerful.

The “Salvos” series is no better than the rest in this regard, for the most part. The greatest powers are usually either evil or morally indifferent. The world itself rewards you for all sorts of evil by allowing you to grow stronger. There is a hint that the growth in an evil direction is ultimately self-defeating, but in reality, some of the most powerful entities we’ve seen are evil. The good ones fight them and lose.

What I like is that the good ones don’t fight with hysteria, helplessly screaming at the enemy, or with “power of friendship”. They either learn to use true power or they lose. Salvos herself fights with focus, power and ferocity. She’s initially weak, but grows stronger. When she initially encounters Belzu, she can only run. The second time, he defeats her with his residual magic, without even being there. The third time, she talks to him, holds her own and escapes. The fourth time, her clones hold their own for a while but they eventually lose. The fifth time, she hunts him down and overpowers him, but the battle itself is complicated and he manages to save himself by creating a duplicate of himself that dies. She finds him, and he trembles before her, as she radiates Divinity of her Grand Skill, and she gets him to agree to terms. When he eventually betrays her, they fight again – both tired and with main Skills depleted, his illusions against her Angelic Premonition. He creates illusions, she sees just enough into the future to be able to fight blindly, and that must be the scariest thing for him, because he knows his illusions work, but she acts as if they are not there, and eventually kills him. She’s not portrayed as someone who wins through sheer luck. No; she’s just more powerful, and her Skill overpowers his. She doesn’t win through power of love or friendship; she wins because she grew in power to the point where he can’t hold his own against her. Imagine Luke Skywalker on the second Death Star transforming or deflecting Palpatine’s Force Lightning and then calmly approaching him and stabbing him through the chest with his Force-enhanced hand. That’s what this fight looks like. To Belzu, it looks like he’s desperately doing everything to distract and defeat her, and she acts as if none of it’s there; ignores things that aren’t real, avoids real threats, talks to him calmly like they’re having a beer in a pub, avoids his final attack and stabs him through the chest with her arm. Game over.

Salvos doesn’t win because she’s good. She isn’t weaker because she’s good. Power and moral virtue don’t mix in that world. She wins because she’s smart, powerful and a good fighter, and she gets along with good people because she’s a nice person. At least, compared to Star Wars, this goes in the right direction, but it’s nowhere near the reality as it exists in the actual Heaven, the real world. I tried to describe it, hinting that the Gods are wonderful people, but also so incredibly powerful that one occasionally feels a hint of it in an otherwise normal conversation and then shivers go up your back. That’s because both true goodness and true power are attained by being of God, and ultimately by being claimed by God as His own person. Power, in that sense, isn’t neutral, and apart from God. The entirety of it is of God.