Unlike the traditional tragic hero whose hubris causes their downfall, Efner’s tragedy lies in her inability to detach herself from the suffering of the world. The "darkness" she falls into is not sin in the traditional sense, but the chaotic reality of human emotion. Whether it was an illicit attachment to a parishioner, a cover-up of a superior's crimes to protect the innocent, or a crisis of faith triggered by witnessing suffering, the cause of her fall is the incompatibility of the human heart with institutional perfection.
But the true darkness came when she discovered the abbey’s secret—a relic hidden beneath the high altar: a shard of bone purported to be from a thief crucified alongside Christ. It was said to carry a residue of the odium dei —the hatred of God. Sister Efner- falling into Darkness because of ...
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Efner began to read forbidden texts smuggled in by a sympathetic postulant: the Gnostic gospels, the writings of Jacob Boehme, and eventually, the grim pages of Eliphas Levi. She no longer prayed for understanding. She prayed for power .