In the dreamscape,
Chen Yi walked through this kingdom upon the Cloud Sea.
Since Maisy had returned to Heaven, the angels had been trying their best to console his spirit by composing many poems for the angel, of which Chen Yi had heard a few, and He knew that although Maisy liked them, not a single one could satisfy the angel.
God thought of sothing, lifted His foot, and instantly arrived at an oasis.
The last-created Great Angel Maisy, flapping his wings, was ticulously etching text onto a huge earthen stone wall, bit by bit.
God looked over, and it was a poem.
It was a poem about the life of the Poet Basel.
The first half was written by Basel while he was still mortal, and the latter half was being compiled by Maisy right there.
Maisy was engrossed in inscribing the text, completely oblivious to the Divine’s arrival.
After so ti, seemingly needing to catch his breath, Maisy wiped his forehead and slowly descended, flapping his wings.
It was then that he turned his head and finally saw the Divine.
"God!"
Maisy hurriedly landed on the Cloud Sea and approached Him,
"Why have You co?"
God did not answer, His gaze fixed on the poem inscribed on the wall.
Maisy imdiately felt a sense of disgrace; he lowered his head and slighted closed his eyelids.
"God...
This poem is to commorate Basel."
Maisy softly spoke after a mont.
"Isn’t that you?"
God’s words fell into his ears.
Angels are pure spiritual bodies, forged from the spirit of God, who, if He wishes, can see into the heart of an angel with just a glance.
Maisy raised his face, he knew that more than piercing the heart with a glance, God expected an oral response.
"I, I... I truly am Basel."
Maisy stamred a bit,
"But, but... I am also not Basel. I don’t know how to describe this feeling.
Basel was just a stuttering, kind-hearted poet... while I was Basel, I didn’t think I was an angel.
I always felt that Basel and Maisy, mortal and angel, these two identities were split apart."
Maisy poured out his thoughts all at once, feeling a sense of relief, and then a smile appeared on his face.
God looked upon Maisy, contemplative.
"What is it, God?"
Maisy asked, puzzled.
God turned around, gazing into a corner of the dreamscape.
"It’s nothing, Maisy."
As soon as Maisy heard the voice, God had vanished.
...
Solamus, the beautiful angel who served closest to God by His throne, often ministered at the throne’s side.
He saw God walking toward the throne and ca forward to greet Him.
"God, where are You going?"
Solamus’s voice was holy and lodious, as the Angel Leader, he understood God the best.
He too was the first to rember that God had once felt joy during His ti in the Mortal World.
"Solamus."
Chen Yi turned around to look at this radiant angel.
"I am going into the darkness."
After God spoke, Solamus gently took God’s hand, kissed the back of God’s hand, expressing his care and concern.
In Solamus’s mory, occasionally, God would go away from the Kingdom, stepping into the deep darkness of the dream.
No angel knew what God intended to do there.
So angels had wanted to inquire of God but had been stopped by Solamus.
"Our Solamus, do you know what’s in there?"
The angels asked Solamus.
Solamus shook his head and said,
"I do not know, but that doesn’t an we should ask.
If God wishes us to know, we will know."
Those angels were not content to leave it at that and wanted to argue further with Solamus.
Solamus simply said,
"We still cannot explore all of Heaven, let alone the God who created Heaven?
We still cannot question our own wisdom, let alone God’s wisdom?
We still cannot grasp God’s joy, so how can we fathom all of God’s thoughts?"
At that ti, Solamus warned the angels not to probe into everything about God unless God wished it so.
The angels had no argunts left and could only nod in agreent.
And as the Angel Leader, Solamus naturally adhered to his own admonition.
Solamus knelt beside the throne, watching God’s figure slowly vanish into the Kingdom above the Cloud Sea.
The Angel Leader decided to wait by God’s throne until God returned from afar.
God reached the darkness.
Before Chen Yi was darkness harboring His other self.
That other self in the darkness remained still, with only a faint sound of breathing.
"Maisy went down to the earth, transford into Basel, and now that he has returned to Heaven, he is no longer Basel."
God murmured softly.
It seed like a soliloquy, yet it was as if it was for the self in the darkness to hear.
All the feelings the angel had seed to clarify one thing:
The identities of mortal and angel are separate.
If that is so...
Does it an that,
Humanity and Divinity are two separate, opposing entities?
"Am I no longer you?"
Chen Yi extended His hand, then slowly lowered it.
The self within the darkness trembled slightly, as if struggling with sothing.
On the day the Great Angel led Maisy to see Him, God heard His own murmur.
He listened,
as that self in the darkness said:
"My answer is right here."
Although the voice was very soft, it landed clearly on God’s ear.
God stood in an expanse of darkness, in a corner of this dream, surrounded by darkness, with only eternal light upon His own body.
Chen Yi quieted down.
Darkness enveloped Him from all directions.
Apart from God, all things in the original dream were silent, were darkness.
He was the only light.
Everything was just as it had been at the ti of His advent.
Only this ti, God could not find the aning in dispelling the darkness.
To dispel the darkness,
What, ultimately, was the significance?
The world was originally nothing but darkness.
Darkness is innate, the most fundantal of existences.
My arrival was like creation ex nihilo, as if from zero, there erged one.
God had no need to dispel the darkness.
Chen Yi stretched out His hand, His fingers delving into the darkness, touching the self within the darkness.
Should He wish, with but a single thought, He could reclaim His humanity.
Just as when doomsday ca, and He offered salvation to the people of the world.
But Chen Yi’s hand paused mid-air.
Humanity and divinity, the two had been sundered.
He ought to distance Himself from that self in the darkness, to utterly forsake it.
To God, mortals were so insignificant, humanity to divinity as an ant.
Even the longest-lived among the Logos people could not have a lifespan beyond nine hundred years.
And the Logos Kingdom that the mortals had built, once so magnificent, even if it stood for two thousand years, would eventually turn to dust under the baptism of ti.
Yet,
God is eternal.
It’s a divide that cannot be crossed.
Chen Yi gazed long into the self within the darkness.
What divinity saw, humanity could not.
The great disasters in the eyes of mortals,
barely caused a ripple in God’s view.
The abyss that seed deep to mortals,
was but flat as a blank page in God’s sight.
Those people with feet upon the ground are but ants; what significance do mortals have to God?
And why should He save mortals?
Life and death are fates mortals cannot escape; everything is about to be born, everything will eventually pass away, the temporary lives of mortals will ultimately et eternal death.
That is the unalterable truth of all things.
God’s humanity compelled Him to save mortals,
but now, what is there worth saving?
God looked toward that self in the darkness.
Perhaps...
It should be forsaken.
"Should I forsake you?"
As always, the self in the darkness did not answer.
God rembered...
It was only when He questioned Himself that the self in the darkness would reveal its thoughts.
God slowly withdrew His hand, turning His head away.
So...
"Should I forsake myself?"
God asked softly.
All of a sudden, Chen Yi was stunned for a mont.
What was He just saying?
Forsake Himself?
He spun back abruptly, directing His gaze toward the self in the darkness.
That self in the darkness, following His every move, whatever He did, it would do.
"So that’s how it is..."
God realized sothing, murmured low,
"To forsake you, to forsake humanity, is to forsake Myself."
Humanity and divinity were never cleaved apart.
Chen Yi had thought that the person in the darkness was all His humanity, in opposition to His divinity.
However, there was never opposition between humanity and divinity; the person inside was rely His reflection!
Maisy had once gone to the earth, transford into Basel.
But upon returning to Heaven, was Maisy truly no longer Basel?
Maisy remained Basel, while Basel was rely Maisy without the mory of Heaven!
With this thought, Chen Yi’s fingertips trembled slightly.
But if humanity and divinity were not in opposition,
what is the relationship between humanity and divinity, after all?
In past understanding,
humanity seed to represent darkness.
While divinity signified light.
The opposition between humanity and divinity, just as light opposed darkness.
He looked around and saw darkness in every direction.
Only He Himself possessed light.
And upon God’s body, there was not the slightest darkness.
"So that’s how it is."
God whispered,
"Darkness is rely the absence of light."
Without light, the world would sink into darkness.
But with light, nothing would be dark again.
Light and darkness aren’t binary opposites.
Just as there is no cold in this world, cold is rely the absence of heat.
And darkness is simply the lack of light.
So...
There was never an opposition between humanity and divinity,
for,
humanity is rely the absence of divinity.
Chen Yi smiled with relief.
He felt joy from His heart.
Things that once seed aningless in God’s eyes regained new colors.
Because God finally understood,
He is divinity, and so is humanity.
He is the complete God, and also the complete human.
Chen Yi no longer doubted the aning of salvation.
When those on earth suffer great hardships, the purpose of salvation isn’t just to grant them temporary life.
For God,
the aning of salvation is,
to let those lacking divinity touch the divine, to let light shine into the darkness.
Where there was once lack, in that mont, becos replete.
And this,
is the salvation of Heaven.
And this,
is the eternal divine truth of Heaven.
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