Lent is also a good time
to continue imagining God as The Programmer. Once we seriously try to visualize the concept that He has the ability to program, compile, and download in three dimensions, we see that He could, in a very short time, have downloaded the universe using the incredibly complicated systems of 3-D pixels among which, and whom, we spend our days in the clay.
The viruses do not encourage us to think about God having the ability to have quickly and efficiently programmed all Creation. In fact, if you let yourself think about God’s ability to program, almost instantaneously, systems of 3-D pixels, you will immediately feel a chorus of thoughts, living voices within, distracting you from taking such an idea seriously.
Viruses, whose goal is to keep us complicated free will programs from getting closer to He Who programmed us, prefer that we see God, if at all, as an uncaring being, divorced from any real concerns about us.
When we listen to what people say about believing in a God powerful enough to have programmed creation with 3-D pixels, we can quickly tell where those people are in the spiritual scheme of things. Those who encourage us to greater belief in, and obedience to, God are on the side of the angels, His beloved programming assistants.
Those who would separate us from Him are, hopefully only temporarily, on the side of the apostate angel. As Hugh of St. Victor explained in the Didascalicon, those who choose to do evil are actually a part of the apostate angel’s body. Everything they say is either a lie or a partial truth used to serve a greater lie.
We may consider picturing our souls among the more powerful spiritual entities as a precious form of energy, sort of like rubies and diamonds among us humans. God wants each precious soul to spend eternity in the joy of reflecting forever His glory in Heaven.
The viruses want those same souls clutched, besmirched, damaged, and in agony forever.
