Section 12: Chapter 17 and Chapter 18 Summary

Memnoch's immediate worry is that God will die and what will happen to his soul and if he has one, and God smiles at him over this worry. God tells Memnoch his plan to die by crucifixion and that he plans to be the sacrifice for the love of his creation. He knows he will cause offense to mankind and be killed, and Memnoch again argues that this is wrong, that God should not be made to suffer so by the hand of mankind. Memnoch says that as God knows he is God that he knows he will return to Heaven to rule, but that the man lying in death does not know where he is going and is unsure that there is a Heaven; therefore, it is God who does not really know the suffering of...