Arguably, the manufacturing of this so-called "universe" is indeed a joke. The thing about jokes, you'll notice, is they almost always involve some kind of exaggeration which really amounts to some kind of deception. The joke is funny to the degree the deception is fairly readily recognized before it can do any damage. We don't like jokes that people take too far. But we also don't like it when people take jokes too seriously either. Notions about Christ, which are not true, would indeed be funny, if they weren't taken so seriously. It's this seriousness that turns a notion about Christ into something seriously insane.
Faith is one of those notions about Christ that when taken seriously, has consequences. One of those is how it is used to manifest the material worlds. The universal symbol for faith is "dirt", or "dust", from which the first man is said to have been fashioned, shaped, formed, or otherwise modeled (not too differently from how you would fashion or model an idol).
In a letter to the "Hebrews", an anonymous warlock even admits how faith is the substance of everything this world stand upon:
"1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
This echoes what i've been saying about faith, how it functions as a wish fulfillment factory for the prodigal son, which forms the basis of his very own world. The difference is the Hebrews, or this anonymous warlock, saw this as a good thing, whereas i see it as more like a joke. Think about it for a minute. The warlock admits faith is based on nothing, but forms the basis of everything that we can see. He admits that faith facilitates the manifestation of those things that we wish/hope for.
The problem with faith is it is a knowledge substitute. Thankfully, you could not manifest the worlds of the prodigal son with actual knowledge. As such, faith is geared to give ourselves gifts that Christ, or any Good god, would never give to us. Faith gives us what we wish...not what we will. If our will was in tune with Christ, we would not wish for anything that faith would promise us it can deliver.
As a knowledge substitute, faith goes directly against Christ, which embodies, contains, or otherwise owns the entirety of all knowledge. If Christ is all that exists, then all knowledge is about Christ. Faith too is about Christ. That is, it is for manifesting every notion about Christ, which, when taken seriously, will drive us insane.
"From dust we come and to dust we will return" means that we manifest out of the nothingness of faith, and in the end, will return to the nothingness from which faith came. Knowledge will prevail in the end against the gates of faith.
Meanwhile, it is said that faith can move mountains. No, not really, at least not anymore. Faith is the substance of the mountains to begin with yes, but since then, the locus of power has been lost. Magicians, witches and warlocks are always trying to re-locate the locus of power, and wield faith once again for more wish fulfilment. What will move mountains, and throw them into the sea, so-to-speak, is knowledge. Anything that faith has assembled, knowledge will take it apart, and return it to nothingness.
Primordial ignorance, as well faith, can be manufactured. From a book titled "Think and Grow Rich", faith is described this way:
"FAITH is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion."
The book was an attempt to re-locate the locus of power that would make it easy, or at least easier, to manifest the things we wish for. This is basically an attempt to rediscover the method by which our material worlds were manifest in the first place.
Back when the prodigal son had yet to spend his entire inheritance of power, he could merely pronounce something to come into existence so-to-speak, by fiat. For example,
"Let there be light"
This is really not too different from the spell:
"So mote it be".
However, the use of spells eventually confuses the practitioner, who will lose the locus of the power. This is how the prodigal son spent his inheritance.
