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Norse will eventually come to accept, to believe in as fervently as I do.
They killed me, but some more persuasive member of the Church will
come along and talk to them before they stretch him out in the wooden lap
of their wooden idol and stab him in the heart. If he does not talk them out
of him, the next missionary will.
`It was true, on Earth, that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the
church. It is even truer here. If you kill a man to shut his mouth, he pops up
some place elsewhere along The River. And a man who has been
martyred a hundred thousand miles away comes along to replace the
previous martyr. The Church will win out in the end. They men will cease
these useless, hate generating wars and begin the real business, the only
worthwhile business, that of gaining salvation.' `What you say about the
martyrs is true about anyone with an idea,' Burton said. `A wicked man
who's killed also pops up to commit his evil elsewhere.'
`Good will prevail; the truth always wins out,' Collop said.
`I don't know how restricted your mobility was on Earth or how long
your life,' Burton said, `but both must have been very limited to make you
so blind. I know better.'
Collop said, 'The Church is not founded on faith alone. It has
something very factual, very substantial, on which to base its teachings.
Tell me, my friend, Abdul, have you ever heard of anybody being
resurrected dead?'
`A paradox!' Burton cried. `What do you mean resurrected dead?'
`There are at least three authenticated cases and four more of which the
Church has heard but has not been able to validate. These are men and
women who were killed at one place on The River and translated to
another. Strangely, their bodies were recreated, but they were without the
spark of life. Now, why was this?'
`I can't imagine!' Burton said. 'You tell me. I listen, for you speak as
one with authority.' He could imagine, since he had heard the same story
elsewhere. But he wanted to learn if Collop's story thatched the others. It
was the same, even to the names of the dead lazari. The story was that
these men and women had been identified by those who had known them
well on Earth. They were all saintly or near-saintly people; in fact, one of
them had been canonized on Earth. The theory was that they had attained
that state of sanctity, which made it no longer necessary to go through the
`purgatory' of the Riverplanet. Their souls had gone on to . . . someplace ...
and left the excess baggage of their physical bodies behind.
Soon, so the Church said, more would reach this state. And their
bodies would be left behind. Eventually, given enough time, the Rivervalley
would become depopulated. All would have shed themselves of their
visciousnesses and hates and would have become illuminated with the
love of mankind and of God. Even the most depraved, those who seemed
to be utterly lost, would be able to abandon their physical beings. All that
was needed to attain this grace was love.
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Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, `Plus ca change, plus dear
la meme chose. Another fairy tale to give men hope. The old religions have
been discredited although some refuse to face even that fact so new
ones must be invented.'
`It makes sense,' Collop said. `Do you have a better explanation of
why we're here?' `Perhaps. I can make up fairy tales, too.' As a matter of
fact, Burton did have an explanation. However, he could not tell it to Collop.
Spruce had told Burton something of the identity, history, and purpose of
his group, the Ethicals. Much of what he had said agreed with Collop's
theology.
Spruce had killed himself before he had explained about the `soul.'
Presumably, the `soul' had to be part of the total organization of
resurrection. Otherwise, when the body had attained `salvation,' and no
longer lived, there would be nothing to carry on the essential part of a man.
Since the post-Terrestrial life could be explained in physical terms, the
`soul' must also be a physical entity, not to be dismissed with the term
`supernatural' as it had been on Earth.
There was much that Burton did not know. But he had had a
glimpse into the workings of this Riverplanet that no other human being
possessed.
With the little knowledge he did have, he planned to lever his way
into more, to pry open the lid, and crawl inside the sanctum. To do so, he
would attain the Dark Tower. The only way to get there swiftly was to take
The Suicide- Express. First, he must be discovered by an Ethical. Then he
must overpower the Ethical, render him unable to kill himself, and
somehow extricate more information from him.
Meanwhile, he continued to play the role of Abdul ibn Harun,
translated and transplanted Egyptian physician of the nineteenth century,
now a citizen of Bargawhwdzys. As such, he decided to join the Church of
the Second Chance. He announced to Collop his disillusionment in
Mahomet and his teachings, and so became Collop's first convert its this
area.
'Then you must swear not to take arms against any man nor to
defend yourself physically, my dear friend,' Collop said.
Burton, outraged, said that he would allow no man to strike at him
and go unharmed.
`Tis not unnatural,' Collop said gently. `Contrary to habit, yes. But a
than may become something other than he has been, something better if
he has the strength of will and the desire.' Burton rapped out a violent no
and stalked away. Collop shook his head sadly, but he continued to be as
friendly as ever. Not without a sense of humor, he sometimes addressed
Burton as his `five-minute convert,' not meaning the time it took to bring
him into the fold but the time it took Burton to leave the fold.
At this time, Collop got his second convert, Goring. The German
had had nothing but sneers and jibes for Collop. Then he began chewing [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]