When I was a little girl, I remember reading how heaven was above and hell below. It never made much sense to me because if hell was underground, then where was it?
The truth is much simpler, isn’t it? When you fell, when you got cast down, you got cast down to Earth. Bound to Earth, trapped on Earth,
denied heaven, denied the heavens, denied the sky, denied the stars. Earthbound.
Yours wasn’t a divine mission, it was an ecclesiastical jailbreak.(…)
The day will come when the last of us leave Earth behind for other worlds, because we know that another day will come, a far off distant day, when the sun will burn out in a final blaze.
The sky will go black, the seas will boil, the ground will turn to ash, consumed by a brilliant light. Any of this sounding familiar to you?And on that day, trapped on Earth with no escape, you and your kind will at last come to an end.
But the heavens will remain, and so will we. A new start, a new universe, a new dream. And you, you don’t belong in that dream.
Elizabeth Lochley, Voices in the Dark
