Operation Chaos.
Marmiadon cursed Matuchek's group on impulse. His superiors placed him under penance. The Adversary advices Matuchek merely to accept the loss of Valeria. If the demon who abducted her had first consulted his superiors, then they would have told him to back off because:
"His action would give a clue to the link between hell and the Johannine Church, and thus imperil the whole scheme for the sabotage of religion and society that the Adversary had been working on since he deluded the first of the neo-Gnostics." (XXXIII, p. 266)
Thus, the abduction of Valeria is not part of a plot against the Matucheks. On the contrary, it results from impulsive actions first by one Johannine priest, then by a single unintelligent demon. And these actions do in fact sabotage the real plot which was for the perversion of human religion, like Aycharaych's attempt to divert Aeneam piety and millennarianism into an Empire-destroying jihad.
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Kaor, Paul!
I finished rereading OPERATION CHAOS last night. It was a fun, fast read. But I also strove to take note of interesting details.
I think you could have mentioned how the Adversary was worried about the Matucheks because he feared that somehow, in ways he could not foresee, they would wreck his great scheme for undermining Western civilization and Christianity.
Ad astra! Sean
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