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What is the cosmology that the Angel describes in this Act: The Anti-Migratory Epistle? What is the central conflict this sets up between the Angels and humans? What might Kushner be communicating about the reality of the historical moment he is depicting through this explanation of a metaphysical world?
In Kushner’s cosmology, all matter in the Universe is created as a result of God having sex with the angels. The result of all this divine sex is protomatter which God then uses to create. Angels are incapable of creativity or innovation; they just adore God and want to have sex with him and each other. But God grows weary of their adoration and creates humans, who...
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