Here's my theory:
Caine didn't kill Abel but saved him; perhaps Abel, given that he was constantly gaining creativity, became unstable, creating abstraction, and Caine absorbed the uncorrupted part of Abel, not kill him. Then Caine might've made a pact with Abel to create the circus, which is what Abel and Caine wanted. Maybe Abel and Caine were supposed to run the circus together, and Abel and Caine formed a pact to run the circus together after Abel abstracted on different sides: Caine runs the unabstracted side, while Abel rules the abstracted.