God confronts me with terror and love — for I am His only hope — and says: "This Ecstatic, who gives birth to all things, who rejoices in them all an… - Nikos Kazantzakis

Every man has his own circle composed of trees, animals, men, ideas, and he is in duty bound to save this circle. He, and no one else. If he does not save it, he cannot be saved. These are the labors each man is given and is in duty bound to complete before he dies. He may not otherwise be saved. For his own soul is scattered and enslaved in these things about him, in trees, in animals, in men, in ideas, and it is his own soul he saves by completing these labors.

لكن التمرد، اذن؟ قفزة الانسان الدونكيشوتية لقهر الظرورة، لاخضاع القانون الخارجي لقانون روحه الداخلي، لنفي كل ماهو كائن، ولخلق عالم جديد، افضل واكثر نقاء واخلاقية، لخلقه حسب قوانين قلبه التي هي نقيض قوانين الطبيعة غير الأنسانية؟ ص٢٧٥

"In order to mount to heaven, you used the Inferno to give you momentum. "The further down you gain your momentum," you often used to tell me, "the higher you shall be able to reach. The militant Christian's greatest worth is not his virtue, but his struggle to transform into virtue the impudence, dishonor, unfaithfulness, and malice within him. One day Lucifer will be the most glorious archangel standing next to God; not Michael, Gabriel, or Raphael — but Lucifer, after he has finally transubstantiated his terrible darkness into light.