Last night I had a sudden thought that Crowley kinda parallels GO God in his methods - followed immediately by "wtf what why" - but I thought about it and hear me out.
My first thought was the apple tree, what with putting it - a temptation - in front of the humans. Give them the opportunity to sin, leave the choice to them, don't get too personally involved, see what they do (test them?). Sounds a lot like Crowley's preferred style alright.
But then I thought of the Apocalypse.
I've made a short post before about how funny it is that that management training exercise in Tadfield sort of parallels the Apocalypse - what with coworkers from different departments just itching for a chance to kill each other, jumping at the first chance to do it only to be prevented from going through with it. I did not, at the time, consider Crowley's role in it. And holy shit I should have.
Thing is, I firmly believe that Armageddon happened exactly as God had planned it. Reason being that, well, I hardly think anyone could have stopped Her had She really wanted it to happen. She made the Great Plan known, sure, put things into motion. Created the entire situation, handed out the guns, so to speak.
But She also would have known about Agnes' prophecies' existence and their future impact. You can't tell me that some witch knew the future and all knowing God didn't. She could have interfered at any point to make sure Armageddon happened. But no, She did interfere - to stop it. By making Agnes a real prophet in the first place. I mean, I honestly don't think there's a way to get a book full of accurate prophecies without God being involved somehow.
She made sure everyone survived. They all got miraculous escapes, if you will. It wouldn't be any fun otherwise.