Old Man Murray is back!
“……before me was a throne…and the One who sat there had the appearance of jasper…From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder…Around the throne were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back…Day and night they never stopped saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.”
Terrifying excerpt from the Cthulhu Mythos describing a sunken or outer-space city whose name is a chilling, vowelless string of consonants and apostrophes? Close. It’s the apostle John’s account of Heaven from Revelation 4:2-8. As far as I can tell – after a month spent in quiet Bible study and silent admiration of my own reflection – it’s the only actual description of Heaven in the entire book. Now there’s no cynical prick on the planet or in near orbit who’s more pro-Christian than me. Or at least more anti-anti-Christian. But I just gotta state for the collapsing electronic permanent record here that the final reward sounds like some spooky American McGee shit I’d rather avoid…”