"When her superiors punish her, Pilar then knows for certain that what she did has been deemed wrong, and ought not to be repeated, and that we have the power to inflict that pain on her confirms to her soul that we are her superiors.  She does not need to be certain of our infallibility, to trust us so; it is wrong because we say so and we are Asmodeus's appointed overlords over her.  The reason why Pilar even needs us to be a good Asmodean, when her faith is already stronger than our own, is not that Pilar would flinch too much to punish herself if she decided all her own punishments.  What would break Pilar if she stayed in Elysium is that she could never feel certain of her guesses about what is a wrong thought, wrong act, if she had nobody like us above her with the power to punish her and thereby make something be permitted or forbidden with certainty.  Once we have spoken, she need but obey, and if there is fault from there it will not be hers.  For this reason did she return to us from Elysium."

"When her superiors punish her, Pilar then knows for certain that what she did has been deemed wrong, and ought not to be repeated, and that we have the power to inflict that pain on her confirms to her soul that we are her superiors.  She does not need to be certain of our infallibility, to trust us so; it is wrong because we say so and we are Asmodeus's appointed overlords over her.  The reason why Pilar even needs us to be a good Asmodean, when her faith is already stronger than our own, is not that Pilar would flinch too much to punish herself if she decided all her own punishments.  What would break Pilar if she stayed in Elysium is that she could never feel certain of her guesses about what is a wrong thought, wrong act, if she had nobody like us above her with the power to punish her and thereby make something be permitted or forbidden with certainty.  Once we have spoken, she need but obey, and if there is fault from there it will not be hers.  For this reason, among others, did she return to us from Elysium, I think."

"When her superiors punish her, Pilar then knows for certain that what she did has been deemed wrong, and ought not to be repeated, and that we have the power to inflict that pain on her confirms to her soul that we are her superiors.  She does not need to be certain of our infallibility, to trust us so; it is wrong because we say so and we are Asmodeus's appointed tyrants over her.  The reason why Pilar even needs us to be a good Asmodean, when her faith is already stronger than our own, is not that Pilar would flinch too much to punish herself if she decided all her own punishments.  What would break Pilar if she stayed in Elysium is that she could never feel certain of her guesses about what is a wrong thought, wrong act, if she had nobody like us above her with the power to punish her and thereby make something be permitted or forbidden with certainty.  Once we have spoken, she need but obey, and if there is fault from there it will not be hers.  For this reason, among others, did she return to us from Elysium, I think."

"When her superiors punish her, Pilar then knows for certain that what she did has been deemed wrong, and ought not to be repeated, and that we have the power to inflict that pain on her confirms to her soul that we are her superiors.  She does not need to be certain of our infallibility, to trust us so; it is wrong because we say so and we are Asmodeus's appointed tyrants over her.  The reason why Pilar even needs us to be a good Asmodean, when her faith is already stronger than our own, is not that Pilar would flinch too much to punish herself if she decided all her own punishments.  What would break Pilar if she stayed in Elysium is that she could never feel certain of her guesses about what is a wrong thought, wrong act, if she had nobody like us above her with the power to punish her will-she-nil-she and thereby make something be permitted or forbidden with certainty.  Once we have spoken, she need but obey, and if there is fault from there it will not be hers.  For this reason, among others, did she return to us from Elysium, I think."