Returns

Follow-up to: The Redemption of Shemesh

There are a number of things that I could point to in The Redemption of Shemesh. Shemesh is a Christ figure as easily as she is an Adam, but it is more in this latter vein that I wish to move today. The principal point of The Redemption is there in the title. It is a story of repentance.


Shemesh's world is an outer manifestation of inner things. She may retreat within herself in order to escape suffering, but turning away from the knife does not send it away and all that she has done is commit a greater grievance- where there was no sin, flight creates it, and where there is sin, blindness to it makes it greater. Even little things that are of no spiritual harm in themselves, like the pain of rejection, may transform and turn cancerous if they are allowed to turn in and feed on themselves.

Though your body be full of light, if you look toward the darkness and see only darkness, then slowly and surely the light within you will be replaced by darkness. What is happening within Shemesh is seen in the whole world because of her absence from it.

But there is no path from which we cannot turn away. We are never too righteous to fall and, conversely, we are never too fallen to step back up again. Hastur's claim is that Shemesh has gone too far to fix the damage that she has caused, but this is the lie that must be believed for him to retain power. If he has influence in the world of men then it is because that world is a reflection of Shemesh's spirit. Nevertheless, her spirit is subject to her will, and it is by her decision to right her wrongs and surmount her pain and Hastur's lies that she rejects him and gives no place in her spirit for him.

Hastur is the Enemy, and Satan is the Adversary. If there is was war in Heaven, if there is war in this world today, then there is a war in each human being as well. But the secret is that this is not a war whose end is really in doubt by anyone who can make a realistic projection of its twists and turns. Any offensive campaign against the more corrupt nature of a man by himself, made with the aid of Heaven, is bound to succeed no matter what temporary setbacks assail it. The only path to victory for the Enemy, then, is to convince his foe not to attack at all.