MOTHER AND THE DEVIL

“ Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ implored His Father, God, to forgive humanity and sacrificed His life for the redemption of its sins. But is prayer alone sufficient to preserve humanity from sin in the ages to come?” — Arbak Khachatryan

Mother and the Devil. The Mother symbolizes the origin of life—love, kindness, protection, and care. The Devil represents the supreme embodiment of evil: a fallen angel, the sovereign of hell. These two figures have never stood side by side. In traditional literary interpretation, the Devil personifies evil, destruction, and temptation, and humanity is portrayed as standing in opposition to him. In this new interpretation, provisionally titled The New Faust, the Mother aids the Devil.

In my articles and interviews, I have repeatedly warned that humanity stands on the brink of destruction. To give artistic form to this vision, I turned to the characters of Goethe’s tragedy Faust. In The New Faust, the spiritual realm confronts contemporary reality.

The Devil, fearing annihilation—as if hell itself might be parceled out and sold by the square meter—shuts the gates of the underworld, swallows the key, and seeks to flee. Had the dramatist lived to witness our age, he would have recognized that the greatest danger in the modern world, the force driving it toward global catastrophe, is the ‘soul’ of the contemporary ‘human,’ whose cruelty surpasses all others on Earth. By comparison, the Devil himself is but a yellow-beaked fledgling. In his work, Goethe entered into dialogue with Mephistopheles. I, however, would summon God before an Intergalactic Court and ask: What has caused humanity to lose its faith and spiritual grounding? Could it be that many of the prophets who claimed to represent Him on Earth were false?

I am convinced that religion erodes true faith. To control this ‘human’ biomaterial, religion is no longer required; a new ‘prophet’ must emerge—one devoid of any divine origin. By my reckoning, its foundation will be artificial intelligence.

Today, the world is abuzz with discussion of the ‘Epstein files.’ It has become increasingly apparent that individuals implicated in grave crimes exert influence over the global financial system, and many occupy positions within the political elite. Some describe them as Satanists. Yet beyond such labels, a harsher truth emerges: money and power have become the ultimate priorities of modern life. One ‘more successful biomaterial’ destroys another ‘expendable biomaterial’—through wars, the machinery of entertainment, and the mechanisms of global consumption.

I believe in a God who created man and woman and endowed them with a soul. Their union, founded upon love, gave birth to the human race. Angels and satan, too, are spiritual creations of God.

The concept of a new interpretation of Faust has drawn the attention of journalists and directors, and a screenplay is currently in development. I am often asked how the story will end. If the world truly stands on the brink of catastrophe, does humanity still have a chance at salvation? Everyone remembers that Jesus Christ gave His life to redeem humanity from sin, as well as the story of Sodom and Gomorrah—the salvation of the righteous family of Lot. Yet I perceive another path. For me, the Mother is a divine creation.

She not only gives life but also provides spiritual guidance—instilling morality, love, conscience, responsibility, and respect through her own example. I was fortunate to know such a Mother—my own. Tragically, she could not endure the pressure imposed upon my family during an act of state terror against us, and she took her own life. Today, I maintain close contact with a woman who embodies maternal dignity and pride. She champions the restoration of the Mother’s role and the revival of spiritual guidance within the family, understanding that humanity’s present crises arise from a loss of spirituality.

For many, she has become a living symbol of the Mother.

In The New Faust, the Mother—as a symbol—acknowledges her guilt, even sin, before God on behalf of all mothers who failed to provide their children with complete spiritual guidance, instead entrusting that responsibility to religious institutions and state authorities. The generation that followed grew up soulless—mere ‘biomaterial’—and humanity now stands on the brink of catastrophe. Realizing that all living and spiritual life on Earth is being destroyed, and unable to protect her own child, the Mother, driven by repentance before the Creator, sacrifices herself to save the Devil, who is fleeing from the modern “hell.”

He may represent evil, but he is also a spiritual creation of God. The Creator, witnessing her sincere repentance and recognizing that, despite centuries of the Mother’s role being diminished, she had preserved her maternal instinct and human virtues, resurrects her and grants her another chance—to give birth once more and to raise a child anew.