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From the 1961 preface to The Screwtape Letters:

I feign that devils can, in a spiritual sense, eat one another; and us. Even in human life we have seen the passion to dominate, almost to digest, one's fellow; to make his whole intellectual and emotional life merely an extension of one's own — to hate one's hatreds and resent one's grievances and indulge one's egoism through him as well as through oneself. His own little store of passion must of course be suppressed to make room for ours.

On earth this desire is often called "love." In Hell I feign that they recognize it as hunger. But there the hunger is ravenous, and a fuller satisfaction is possible. There, I suggest, the stronger spirit — there are perhaps no bodies to impede the operation — can really and irrevocably suck the weaker into itself and permanently gorge its own being on the weaker's outraged individuality. It is (I feign) for this that devils desire human souls and the souls of one another. It is for this that Satan desires all his own followers and all the sons of Eve and all the host of Heaven.

His dream is of the day when all shall be inside him and all that says "I" can say it only through him.

In In Nomine, of course, there is only one Demon Prince who embodies this approach.

In IN, human souls, upon their death, have four resolutions -- Heaven if they achieved Destiny, Hell if they achieved Fate, and either disbandment or reincarnation ifthey reached both or neither.  What if the Symphony itself will face one of those four ends?  In that case, we already have three Superiors representing three of the ends; Yves is Detiny, Kronos is Fate, and Saminga is extinction. 

What about reincarnation?  Well, that would suggest the Symphony as a whole go through a major transition and try again.  Iit would probably need to be unified again into a single being, a single symphony, which could then undergo the internal divisions and complications that the Symphony itself experienced this time.  For example, by Haagenti eating everything, consuming the Symphony entirely and making it part of his personal Symphony, starting the Symphony on a new cycle.

With Haagenti as God.

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[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

That's a bizarre and fascinating interpretation. I like that.