for you to be honest. Why are you here, what do you want, what do you want from us?”
With Fletcher, you always told the truth. He had no truck with lies.
“I like you all as people,” I said, “and I’m interested in what you do here. It gives me something to do with my time.”
Whenever I spoke like that, completely honest, I felt kind of naked, or as if I’d crept out from behind a bush and a sniper had me in his targets. Fletcher rested his chin on his hand and thought about what I’d said.
“It gives you something to do with your time. Most people don’t think about how they spend their time. They’re just led by their desires, towards food, sex, material possessions. Thinking is what separates White Ones from the rest.”
I was flattered by what he said.
“I admire the fact you’re prepared to be different,” I said, “and I admire your principles. But what I can’t get my head round is your belief system. Tell me if I’m right. You believe in the forces of Light and Darkness. That Light is Good and Good is Light and you have to be one with the Light by living as purely as you can. And then when you die you sort of merge with the Light. And you fight the forces of Darkness. Like the Jedi,” I kidded.
But Fletcher didn’t look amused. “That’s only a very crude description,” he said.
“There’s much more to it than that,” Nick agreed.
Fletcher looked me in the eyes. “There are countless religions and superstitions all over the world, but in fundamentals they’re all very similar. There’s this belief in a divinity – God, Allah, Yahweh. And before the so-called discovery of God, people still saw the forces of nature at play, and still had the need to believe in something. What people call God is just their way of naming the incomprehensible.”
I went along with all of that. “Like Father Christmas,” I added, trying to be a good student. “He’s just a symbol.”
Fletcher nodded but didn’t really seem to hear me. “We would never deny anyone’s concept of God. But what we know is that there is a force for Good. That this Life is not all there is. And that there is a reason why we’re here.”
It intrigued me, the way he sounded so definite. He had a certain power, Fletcher. He had a compelling presence. When he talked, you listened. You were only aware of him in the room. His voice was slower than most people’s and his eyes held you.
“Before Creation, there was just bliss. It existed beyond time and space in a unity of thought and emotion. Then a vast explosion occurred. Matter was formed, and antimatter. Matter is what our world is made of; antimatter is pure evil. It causes bad thoughts and propagates illness. All living things in our world have a yearning to return to the time that was. We can return to that time, but only through self-purification – achieved through self-control – keeping our bodies pure, total honesty, confession and working towards an end to hypocrisy and corruption in the world around us.
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