Revolution of the Gods: The Battle for Sol Book Two by W.R. Hobbs

Author:W.R. Hobbs
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: C7 Publishing
Published: 2014-05-21T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

St. Peter's Square -Vatican City

The square was filling rapidly with an increasing number of people pouring in from the Via della Conciliazione. From an Earth perspective, the wormhole appeared much differently on the far western horizon in Italy. The dazzling blue glow from the spiraling gas clouds was larger than a full moon. The center of the radiance possessed a discernible inner ring that pulsed back and forth through bluish variations, resembling a bright new sun descending behind Michelangelo’s iconic dome perched on St. Peter's Basilica.

Raylen stood near the obelisk in the middle of St. Peter’s Square. His glinting blue eyes were set charmingly within their sockets and consumed the amazing view of the forming wormhole. His wavy, sand colored hair was shoulder length and worn in a utilitarian style atop his tall and athletic frame. His light blond stubble complimented his tanned cheeks and strong chin as he stared into the westward sky.

He had been studying the obelisk since his arrival in the square from the Ciampino Airport two hours earlier on his way to attend the meeting of the Assembly of World Religions.

The Assembly of World Religions was instituted shortly after the formation of the New Earth Union. In 2029, after the Vatican became the seat of governance for the Assembly of World Religions by order of the New Earth Union, five sects were recognized as “survived religions” and each was appointed a governor to represent them in the AWR. During the process, each of the world’s major religious leaders was replaced in one form or fashion, including the last pope. The hierarchical structure for each religion was kept largely intact but supreme control of all bureaucracies now resided with the assembly governors. The Vatican was now like the UN security council of religion.

The five ‘survived religions’ were determined based on the number of pandemic survivors that still practiced a particular faith. The projections were that 180 million Christians, forty million Muslims, seventeen million Hindus, and eight million Buddhists had survived the superflu. All other groups that had survived but numbered below one million were placed in the fifth sect - the Universals.

Even though the five governors for the other religions were ultimately installed by the C7, the installment of the Universal governor was the most blatant. The 300 million Universals were represented in the AWR by Governor Darisam; a charismatic fifty year old native from New York. His biography was well known to the world. In 2025, Vale Darisam was a relatively unknown ‘new age’ religious guru when he started the Church of the Universal Creator using his sizable inheritance. The tenets of Darisam’s universal theory were little more than a reincarnation of the radical dualism of Gnosticism, focusing on the material world now being the realm for dark forces and the anticipated arrival of an equally powerful divine force.

Even among members of the other religions, this old message found a new audience in the midst of the economic downturn and eventual collapse of the world economy.

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