I'm Traveling Alone by Samuel Bjork

Author:Samuel Bjork
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

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Lukas was in heaven. Or at least it felt like it. He had been looking forward to this visit for days, his third to the house in the forest. Lux Domus, the House of Light, or as Pastor Simon liked to call it, Porta Caeli, Heaven’s Gate. How was it possible for anything to be so beautiful? Porta Caeli. Heaven’s Gate. His body had been tingling with excitement all day, and finally they had arrived; he was so near to heaven he could barely contain himself, but he forced himself to sit completely still on the spindle-back chair by the window while the pastor read to the children.

God had spoken to the pastor. Told him to build this place. A new ark. Not for animals this time but for his chosen people. The initiated. The House of Light. Heaven’s Gate. They would travel together on the Day of Judgment. No one else. Only them. Forty people, no more. There were several arks across the world, God had said to the pastor, but the congregation had not been told where the others were. Only that they existed, that was enough; these people would meet the other chosen ones in heaven, so there was no rush. In heaven. God’s Kingdom. Where turquoise water flowed in fresh streams and everything was made of gold, on a carpet of bright white clouds. Eternity. The chosen ones. Forever.

Lukas closed his eyes and let the pastor’s voice fill him. God’s voice, that was what it was. The children mattered most, God had said, they were pure. It was important that children be pure and clean, as innocent as they had been in their mother’s womb, not tarnished after years on earth. No, pure, they must be purified. Even if it took fire. The flames of hell. The pastor spoke with a mild and calm voice, firm like God’s own hand, hard on the outside and soft on the inside. Water was flowing inside Lukas’s head now. Clean, fresh rivers winding their way through green forests and across white fields in front of a house of gold.

“My children, I will manifest myself in front of you to guide my people from the darkness to the light,” the pastor said. “I will reveal the reality of hell, so that you can be saved and renounce your evil ways before it is too late. Your souls will be taken from your bodies, by me, the Lord Jesus Christ, and sent into hell. I will also offer you visions of heaven, and many other revelations.”

The pastor fell silent and gazed across the assembly. He liked doing this. Looking into everyone’s eyes. It was important. So that the people could see God’s eyes behind his. Lukas opened his own eyes and smiled. His house would lie right next to the pastor’s—God himself had promised that. There were not all that many children here, only eight. The pastor had chosen them himself. Five girls and three boys, almost entirely pure. A few sessions with the pastor’s kind voice and they would be ready.

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