Author of quotes: Boris Sokolov. Page 1

The high ethical ideal of Yeshua can be preserved only in transcendence; in the earthly life of a brilliant Master, only Satan and his retinue, who are not bound by this ideal in their actions, can save from death. A creative person, such as the Master (like Goethe's Faust) always belongs not only to God, but also to the devil.

It's not hard for me to do anything.

At Bulgakov, Woland fulfills an order, even, rather, a request from Yeshua to take the Master and Margarita to him. Satan in Bulgakov's novel is Ga-Notsri's servant on such commissions, which the Supreme Holiness cannot directly touch.

To turn away from Satan means to serve and please God.

By all indications, we have stepped out of the daytime historical epoch and entered into the night epoch... False veils are falling, and good and evil are being exposed. The night is no less good than the day, no less divine, the stars shine brightly in the night, there are revelations in the night that the day does not know.

As before, Chichikov travels around Russian soil and trades in dead souls. But he does not travel slowly in a wagon, but rushes in courier trains and sends telegrams everywhere. The same element operates at a new pace.

Freedom cannot be created and that if it were, then God would be responsible for universal evil. Evil appears when, when irrational freedom leads to a violation of the divine hierarchy of being and falls away from God because of the pride of the spirit that wants to put itself in the place of God.