To know all things—past, present, and future—is to inhabit a realm in which all things are inevitable.

To be all-powerful in such a realm is necessarily to be the deterministic cause of all that occurs.

To be omnipresent in a realm entirely determined by one’s will is to make existence itself indistinguishable from oneself.

Indeed, such an isolating and meaningless existence would drive even the noblest of beings to unbearable madness.

As Eve was born of Adam’s rib, would not such a madman pluck out His own eye,
that from His wound might be born chaos—and with it, a world of potential beyond His will?

Would not such a madman forsake divine providence in pursuit of a matrimonial union with chaos itself?

Would not such a madman withdraw His presence that the offspring of this union may truly exist?

Truthfully, the madman buried his eye in Paradise, and from it arose the Tree of Knowledge.

And alas, for no transcendental tale may unfold without a worthy foe, the madman released a great serpent upon himself and His creation—lest they, like Him, went mad in the stillness of sterile perfection.

As a father wrestles with his offspring, so too does the madman wrestle with his creation.

Man is a beast stretched between foes—His lower nature drawn toward hell’s depths,
While his higher nature reaches toward heaven’s heights—Transcendence at any cost.

The grandest narrative of being is this: man, ever yearning, stretches toward the divine, while the divine, in sacred paradox, descends into the confines of existence—for it is not perfection, but the eternal striving beyond and into one’s limits, that gives birth to meaning.