QUOTE : If the Emperor is divine, how can He permit the suffering and disaster that is occurring?’ said Andromeda. Sindermann nodded, his eyes on the books he had placed on the table, his gaze distant. ‘And He is divine – I have seen the truth. Philosophers of a different age would use the same question to undermine the concept of a higher power – there is suffering and darkness and so gods must be false. But gods are real, and there is suffering, so that must be because they permit it… I have not lost my faith. I have found that I believe in a God-Emperor who is less than the divinity I wanted, but the only thing that is true.