“Christ would face Lucifer and would tell him: ‘Now, there are so and so many spirits who do not wish to remain faithful to you. They desire to go back to God. Therefore, you should let them free.’ Lucifer would not agree to that. He maintained that he does not recognize divine law and would use his power as he saw fit. So Christ said, ‘In this case, there must be a war between us, between your forces and the forces of the divine world.’ However, Lucifer said, ‘Even if such a war should take place and even if the divine forces should win and take my power away, I will thereby not recognize the law of God as being just’.. This constituted an essential part in the plan of salvation since no one should be eternally damned, not even Lucifer himself. And so that no eternal damnation would ever be possible, Lucifer himself would have to admit at all times the absolute justice of the divine laws.

“Therefore, Christ asked him, ‘In what way would you consider the divine powers to be just?’ And Lucifer answered, ‘If such a war took place after there has been one being of the world of God, if you wish, living like a man without any protection at certain crucial times, and without guidance by the world of God, and, as a man where a great part of the knowledge is dimmed out, where matter stands in the way, he would remain faithful to God in spite of my own temptations and in spite of greatest hardship and misery to go through if remaining faithful to God. There must be the most difficult conditions possible. I will offer this person every possible worldly power and release of all hardships befalling him if he forsakes God. If anyone would remain faithful to God under such conditions, which I doubt very much — in fact, I say it is impossible — then I will have my battle with you, and I will recognize God’s laws as being utterly just.'”

“To be left alone on this earth sphere without the support of God’s spirit world and on top of that having to resist all attacks, challenges, hardships, and temptations that the powers of darkness could think of, seemed indeed an impossible task to fulfill. And no human being has ever had to go through anything like it even in the remotest degree. Therefore, Christ cannot be compared with any other person who ever lived, no matter how pure or how wonderful the teachings may have been. For Christ has shown in deed and in fact what others have taught, and this under infinitely more difficult circumstances than anyone else ever had to bear!

“So these were the conditions Lucifer put up in order to recognize God’s laws as being just. If this seemingly impossible task should really be fulfilled, then this battle could take place; and if he should lose this battle, then Christ could make His terms and he, Lucifer, would not doubt God’s justice in every respect.

“So this was then the plan. And Christ took it upon Himself although Lucifer did not specify that it had to be Him, for the before-mentioned reasons.” (PL #22)