Interlude II
"As I say, there is no future for the world, or a future for Man:
'There is nothing that the age does not crush.
Fate reaps everything.'
"But it was my discovery of the Scrolls that set me on this path to Instrumentality, to this path to find a way out of our inevitable end. I have no truck with Providence as such, but that occasion, that purest of chances, made me who I am this day. It was that finding, and my realization of the importance of the Scrolls that led me to proclaim those great words:
'I'll learn what holds the world together
There at its inmost core:
See the seeds of things, the power,
And bargain in words no more.'
"Yes, with the Scrolls I learned much that had been hidden from the eyes of Man for untold eons. And Instrumentality is the end result of my labors. For decades I have worked towards its end, I have persuaded, cajoled, intimidated, and fought until I am at last a hand's breadth away from attaining my end. Seele has played its part as an extension of my will, its infighting and politicking stopping even those who think themselves the masters of the world from realizing what will happen.
"Yes, yes, there are some who think they know, who think that they will rule the collective soul of Mankind as gods, benevolent or cruel as their various wills are, but they understand nothing. It is pitiful that those men, who cast themselves as Uebermenschen misdirecting the masses, never seem to think that I might do the same to them.
"Katsuhito thinks me a mere mystic, that my studies in the kabbalist tradition are nothing more than the inane and transitory pleasures of an old man, but he is a fool. He doesn't understand that Instrumentality is the only way for Man to reach his true end - godhood. Through Instrumentality, we shall attain the Ein Sof, and in an instant obliterate that infinite qualitative difference between the divine and Man!
"No, Ikari and his ilk think too small, too lowly to truly understand what will happen. They think in terms of material processes alone, trying to postpone that fate which all flesh is heir to. No, I go much further with Instrumentality.
"Man shall become God, and all will be right with the world.
'Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?'"
