Claim. Although Christian doctrine says God forgives all enemies, Satan alone cannot be forgiven — because forgiving the “adulterer of love” who corrupted humanity’s lineage would invalidate the heavenly law itself.
Elaboration. SMM presents the non-forgiveness of Satan as a structural constraint, not a moral preference: “If the enemy of love, Satan, the devil, were forgiven, heaven and earth would have turned upside down. Therefore if we are to find the original love we cannot forgive him. We cannot find it without judging Satan. Thus, God sees relationships of adulterous love as the greatest enemy” (3.2. Satan is the enemy of love, 53-140, 1972.2.13). Satan’s argument against God — used to maintain accusational leverage — is given verbatim: “I did become the devil, but Your principle of creation, the original principled standard remains intact. So isn’t it the rule that You and Your children cannot go to heaven unless you and they love me?” (ibid, 185-56, 1989.1.1). This is the divine-constraint basis for the love-the-enemy commandment: God cannot strike Satan because of the unfulfilled completion-stage love condition for the archangel.
See also. divine-constraint, fall