Claim. God’s joy in his creation hinges on the object’s loyalty and filial piety toward him — without that responsive virtue from the object partner, God lacks even the basic conditions of love.
Elaboration. SMM frames loyalty as a divine-constraint on God’s own joy: “when God who made Heaven and earth created an object partner, however small, it occupied the position of a being from which He derived joy and comfort in His solitude. As such, it brought God the greatest joy and thereby constituted an essential factor inherent in the object partner to have loyalty and filial piety” (CSG 14.4 §2, 39-226, 1971.1.15). The conclusion at section end is severe: “God wants absolute families who have absolute loyalty and filial piety. Until now, absolute loyalty and filial piety have never existed. Without a global foundation of absolutely divine children, namely God’s children, God cannot descend upon the earth. Alone, God cannot do anything providential on the earth” (297-202, 1998.11.20). Loyalty is reframed as the structural input on which God’s providential action depends, not as an optional human contribution.
See also. csg-six-thousand-years-without-a-true-loyal-subject