In the book entitled Ignis fatuus, or an instructive game for one player, which is the instruction manual for the Game, the description of the Fourth World includes the following story:
God created the Fourth World in a passion that brought Him relief in His divine suffering.
When He created man, He came to His senses – such an impression did he make on Him. So He stopped creating the world any further – for could there have been anything more perfect? – and now, in His divine time, He admired His own work. The deeper God’s vision reached into the human inside, the more ardently God’s love for man intensified.
But man proved ungrateful – he was busy cultivating the land and begetting children, and took no notice of God. Then in His divine mind arose sorrow, from which darkness seeped.
God’s love for man was unrequited.
Divine love, like any other, can be oppressive. Meanwhile man matured and decided to free himself from his importunate lover. “Let me leave,” he said. “Let me get to know the world in my own way and give me provisions for the journey.”
“You won’t manage without me,” God told man. “Don’t go.”
“Oh, come on,” said man, and regretfully God leaned the branch of an apple tree towards him.
God was left alone and He pined. He dreamed that it was He who had driven man out of paradise, so painful was the thought that He had been abandoned.
“Come back to me. The world is terrible and it can kill you. Look at the earthquakes, the volcanic eruptions, the fires and the floods,” He thundered from the rain clouds.
“Oh, come on, I’ll manage,” man replied, and was gone.