BLINDMAN TWO

The whole world ends with the slightest rift. For a million years ago a man saw a cleft on some small piece of the foundation of the earth, and he put his weight into separating the cleft further; and thus did he ensure the inevitability of the ultimate disaster, the end of All and Everything. World wars are begun with a single harsh word between friends; holocausts happen when a friend looks into a friend's eyes, and sees some small measure of malice there. Two friends were once in love one to another in that manly love that only platonic friends can have; but there was the slightest rift that developed between them, having no germ or seed that brought it about, but coming from nothing, coming to be by spontaneous generation. And thus this rift, which began as insignificantly as a hard look that passed between them, led to the War in the Heavens. It led to that dispute between God and Satan--that rift that pitted God against what he'd never had, an enemy. It led to all evil on the face of the earth, and ensured the ultimate disaster, the peril of the cosmos, the Last Day that ends not in God's kingdom but in the triumph of evil. All evil on the face of the earth comes from nothing; for in a pure state the cosmos was like a sterile room, free from all infection. But a germ arose from neither egg nor seed, having nothing as its father or mother, having nothing to which its existence was due; and it lead to contamination in the cosmos. It was the origin of evil and suffering; and indeed it is a mystery how God's world ended up a place of suffering and pain. It is a mystery how God's world became infected such that it will end, and end in evil, and necessitate the Lake of Fire, wherein good and true and just men will be cast along with evildoers, to go on in the agonies forever. And evil shall triumph in the end; for its most difficult task was to come to be in the first place, and once it has achieved this impossibility, the rest shall be easy.