“It’s a wonder to behold”, Azrael told his wife. “We are looking straight into the eyes of evil and madness, and the way it is presenting itself is as narcissistic as it is ridiculous”, he gestured in dismay. “I mean, ‘liberty, fraternity, and equality’; sounds lovely until you see what they actually mean by it, and what they mean by it is ‘kill everybody who used to be in power, and this will automatically produce heaven on earth and everything will be wonderful’”.

“They should put the guillotine on their flag, that would be more honest”, Hypatia grinned. “But what do they even mean by all that nonsense? Everybody should be equal and free to do whatever?”

“It’s Satan’s moto, essentially. He wants to destroy the most powerful beings because he’s being oppressed by the fact that he constantly has to be aware of his inferiority, and he thinks everything would be great once he kills everyone who thinks they are better than him. As for liberty, he’s the only one who ever cared for being able to do anything he wanted with impunity; him and possibly a handful of other demons. And those demons usually found something fulfilling to do soon enough. He just wants to torture and humiliate people and that gives him a power trip”, he explained.

“Those people are certainly following in his footsteps”, she nodded. “They are incredibly murderous, hysterical and hypocritical”.

“And they took over two countries at once – France and the British colonies in America, which seems to indicate something about Satan’s plans. He is creating a new world and wants to burn the old one down. They are overthrowing moderate, reasonable rulers, but if you read their newspapers, you’d think they were overthrowing the tyranny of Caligula. It reminds me of Satan’s early days – if you listened to him talk, it was all about the right to self-determination and freedom. It was only after his victims started arriving that it became obvious what the actual agenda was”, he looked grim.

“I find both the propaganda and the reality quite educational. The propaganda shows you what one wants to believe of himself, and what he wants others to believe. The reality of their actions show what it’s all about. Here in Heaven, we don’t have any propaganda or mission statements. There are no big inspirational speeches. Just people hanging out in the gardens, talking over coffee, doing things they want to do, and loving each other deeply. Since there is no difference between what we want others to think we’re doing, and the things we are actually doing, there is no need for propaganda. You only need propaganda if you are a liar, and you want to mask your evil under a palatable guise”, she nodded.

“I think we are seeing a template for the future. Revolutionary movements, wanting to tear everything down in the name of progress, liberation, emancipation, freedom, or whatever nonsense the propagandists cook up. They will find some legitimate issue that can drive up the masses, and they will start murderous, destructive campaigns. This will be done iteratively until it establishes Satan’s ideal society, where everybody is miserable, of crushed spirit, hateful, resentful and pathetic. And it will always be someone else’s fault”.

“It’s funny how Sanat Kumar used to harp about the tyranny of heaven, and he himself continues to establish tyrannies and oppressive systems”, he continued. “You won’t see mobs rising up with pitchforks to guillotine Lord Vishnu and Lady Lakshmi”, he smiled at his wife’s horrified expression. “We are obviously so thoroughly oppressed that we’ve internalised our oppression and we don’t even perceive it”, he laughed.

“I don’t know how he even managed to sell that nonsense to anyone”, she wondered.

“He was selling it in the astral nursery back then, where hardly anyone ever saw a God in person”, he reminded her. “In fact, all the good stuff we have now came as a result of his evil works, which is an irony. He worked to eliminate the Gods, and as a result, we have how many Gods now?”

“Thirty one, if I’m right. Shankaracharya and Zeb-un-Nissa, and Theresa and Juan being the most recent additions”, she nodded.

“And we started with four or six, depending on the way of counting. If he expected to start some revolution that will tear down heaven, his efforts have been vastly counterproductive”, Lord Azrael smiled. “The only mob the Elders have to fear are the worshippers surprising them with a shower of flower petals”.

“Apparently, we have no use for liberty, freedom or rights”, she laughed. “The only thing we need is our discipline, our duties, and the relationships we have forged. If everybody seeks only to serve and love, heaven is the emergent property of such attitude. And likewise, if everybody wants rights, liberties and freedoms, hell is the natural emergent property of such attitude”, she melted into his side.

“I’m afraid they are going to have a deluge of rights, liberties of freedom on Earth in the following years”, he waved in dismay.

“I translate it into mass murder and treating people like garbage”, she smiled.

“Yes, that’s what I meant”, he laughed.