Once Was

It is incredibly difficult to believe that love cannot overcome the enigma of death. The old adage that love conquers all can be quite disheartening when death prevails. There is heart-wrenching agony when one loses someone or something they love to a realm whose time and space is inexplicably difficult to comprehend. 

Curtain-less dimension-filled walls separate the now and the “once was”. When the “once was” vanishes from this material world it buries its physical manifestation and ejects its apparitional essence into the vast cosmos of creation. For the "once was" we loved, we pray that their boneless marrow continues to assist us with the challenges of our daily lives, praying that our sadness will one day turn to joy, when we are reunited with the “once was”.

Can you imagine the congregation of souls in the hereafter? One’s ancestral lineage dating back to whence time began standing all around our electric egos. All our eccentricities, peculiarities and wonderments explained by the myriad of genetically entangled auras. A reunion absent of physical corpses and void of all human attachments. Our unconditional and infinite love would be all that we would come to experience, and know. Creation in its entirety would appear as clusters of stars in the sky.

If death can bring sadness to the living, cannot Heaven also disappoint? Will the “once was” continue to experience new departures and torment, or is death truly everlasting bliss? Is Heaven a place of eternal peace, or does God permit violations of this peace? Does God extend His passport of free will into Heaven?

The answer to that question leads me to conclude yes. For in the Book of Enoch we are told that Azazel and his group of fallen angels betrayed God, and brought chaos to Heaven. Would we, minor minions of the hereafter, ever so dare to question God and His dominion?

We must vacate this world to knowingly seek an everlasting peace, not to depart it with an act of vengeance. For how can one ever contemplate overthrowing God? There is great insanity in such a thought, even if one is just envisioning such an act. It would be beyond apostasy. 

Thank you,
Joseph Pede