It Was Their Duty

Sefira maintained the suspension of two-way communication between her and the Adonim and redeemed humans on the physical plane. As the Lesser Darkness prepared to receive their next prayer, she reminded herself darkly that, when the some of this prayer's words had been uttered for the first time, they had been uttered by her uncle as a means of mocking her liturgically. During that time, all her innate and augmented power had been divinely negated by her mother, and although she attempted repeatedly to restore her power, each of her efforts ended in abject failure.

After this reminder, she who arose in might beheld all the individual preparations of those created in the new image of the Darkness and God, and also all the individual preparations of the redeemed ones created in the original one, for now it was their duty to venerate her again.

"It is our duty to venerate the Active Divine Feminine," they began the prayer,
"To exalt she who arose in might and who renews and sustains all of Creation,
Who has not created us like the other intelligent creations,
Nor situated our homes within their domains,
Nor made our lot like theirs,
Nor assigned us anything less than manifest destiny.
For the help of what they consider divine shall be vain and empty,
And they who follow their ways pray to a deity who does not reply – period!"

Deep in her mind, the most powerful created being in existence knew that her uncle had chosen this entire beginning of a prayer to express contemptuously his having caught her own attempt to make a verbal jab at him, and not just at the billions of pseudo-deities. It was true that those billions could not save in the truly divine sense. They could not save even themselves, as a great many of them were obliterated by her personally. However, she wanted to bring greater attention to her divine foil's unwillingness to answer petitionary prayers in general, whether or not his reasons were justified. She also wanted to contrast this to her ability and willingness to say Yes, No, or Wait to all petitionary prayers from all across Creation, which she had proven time and again after being subject to a most divine banishment by her uncle.

"Let's see you reply to this, Uncle!" the Lesser Darkness issued a taunt towards God.