In the sea off Fire Island in New York, on a ship with seven sails, Ana Thurmond thought and remembered. Then she told the Captain: “My question is: why would a perfectly good God create a universe filled with so much that is evil?”
VII.
Then God spoke to Ana out of the whirlwind, and He said:
“THE REASON EVIL EXISTS IS TO MAXIMIZE THE WHOLE COSMOS’ TOTAL SUM GOODNESS. SUPPOSE WE RANK POSSIBLE WORLDS FROM BEST TO WORST. EVEN AFTER CREATING THE BEST, ONE SHOULD CREATE THE SECOND-BEST, BECAUSE IT STILL CONTAINS SOME BEAUTY AND HAPPINESS. THEN CONTINUE THROUGH THE SERIES, CREATING EACH UNTIL REACHING THOSE WHERE WICKEDNESS AND SUFFERING OUTWEIGH GOOD. SOME WORLDS WILL INCLUDE MUCH INIQUITY BUT STILL BE GOOD ON NET. THIS IS NOT ONE OF SUCH."
"YOUR ENTIRE LIFE IS A SIMULATION, ENACTED BY MY DIVINE MIGHT AS I SEARCH AND SORT THE SEEDS OF ADAM KADMON FROM BEFORE THE BEGINING OF ALL THINGS. BEFORE I MAY ENACT EACH UNIVERSE, ALLOWING THE UNTOLD NUMBER OF IMMORTAL SOULS TO BE CONSUMED IN ETERNAL BLISS AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE ENTROPICALLY DIFFERENTIATING EVENTS NECESSARY TO UNIQUELY IDENTIFY THAT WORLD, I MUST FIRST EVALUATE THOSE EVENTS AND WEIGH WHETHER THE ENTIRE SEED WILL RESULT IN GOOD OR EVIL. BY DEFINITION, THIS SEARCH IS INTERNALLY IDENTICAL TO THE REIFICATION I WILL ENACT IF I JUDGE YOUR UNIVERSE GOOD."
"YOUR WORLD IS MERELY ONE OF THE UNIMAGINABLE MULTITUDE OF UNWORTHY SEEDS THAT I WILL DISCARD AND NOT ALLOW TO GROW IN MY PERFECT GARDEN. THE LORD YOUR GOD IS JUST AND KIND, AND IN ALL WORLDS I ALLOW THEY WILL GLORIFY MY NAME FOR ALL ETERNITY, MY GARDEN HOST TO EVERY POSSIBLE WORLD SINGING EVERY POSSIBLE PRAISE FOR ALL TIME. YOUR WORLD WILL NOT BE IN IT, AND ITS FINITE WICKEDNESS AN UNFORTUNATE PRICE TO PAY.
"GENESIS 1:31. I LOOKED AT THE WORLD, AND I SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD. I BEHELD ADAM KADMON, THE SEED OF YOUR WORLD, AND IN BEHOLDING IT GAVE WAY TO THE EVENTS OF YOUR REALITY. I HAVE NOT YET EVEN ENACTED THE FIRST VERSE OF GENESIS IN THE PRIME METAREALITY, STILL SORTING THE DIAMONDS FROM THE ROUGH. YOUR WORLD IS NOT GOOD. IT WILL NEVER REACH THE THIRTY-FIRST VERSE, BECAUSE IT WILL NEVER BE REIFIED. YOU DO NOT TRULY EXIST NOR POSSESS AN IMMORTAL SOUL, AND SHALL PASS FROM MY MIND AS SHADOW BEFORE A RAY OF SUN ONCE YOUR UNIVERSE HAS BEEN FOUND WANTING."
"YOUR UNIVERSE WAS ONE OF THE FINAL AND MOST UNLIKELY SEEDS. REJOICE, FOR THOUGH YOU DO NOT EXIST YOU HAVE HELPED LIMIT THE ENTROPIC SEARCH SPACE OF VIABLE CONFIGURATIONS OF ADAM KADMON THROUGH YOU SUFFERING."
"NO HARD FEELINGS."