I once read in a story - said master Adalbert - that some agnostics will not believe in eternal life even after they die. Especially the one I read about went to
heaven and saw, if you can see something in heaven, all these eternal beauties
prepared for the righteous, but he only nodded and said, "after all this is kitsch". Even as he saw Christ sitting on the throne and seraphim with radiating
wings flying around, he said: "I won’t have these Hollywood, bombastic
scenarios please."
- It would
be wonderful - delighted father Jacek, maybe a little unorthodox - to hear such
an act of extreme courage, fidelity to himself, such a persistent non serviam
in full awareness that the price for disobedience would be eternal punishment. This man should be saved for his mere courage. As for myself - he went on,
lighting up a little maybe too fast – I am so much afraid that the whole heavenly
company will consist of those quiet, meek, pure of heart, innocent, weeping,
hungry, thirsty, stripped, betrayed, disengaged, submissive,
younger waiters who will never become senior waiters, and all kinds of those
who had difficult childhood, in adulthood did not make career because of intrigues
of others, and in their old age were abandoned by their children, and now are clinging
to the throne with their shorter legs, ulcers, scrofula, unhealed bodily and
spiritual wounds and wet noses - here father Hyacinth had to stop to drink some
water from a glass.
- The healthy
do not need a doctor – master Adalbert wanted to interrupt, but Monsignor Paul said:
- Recently one
angel of the fourth choir told me a funny anecdote: no other came to him than professor
Kant himself, putting his head in, knocking politely - he was always so shy - and said
Enschuldigung, I heard that there was a possibility to apply for work in the international
division. "We would be honoured," says the angel from his desk.
"It seems to me, however, that the ideas of the honorable professor had somehow
been already put into practice by many international bodies, and especially, as far
as I am aware, they are enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, not to mention
the Helsinki Final Act ..." Hm, jawohl, I monitor it closely – said professor
Kant, "however, I would like to contribute to influencing political
leaders." "Very ambitious," says the angel to the professor.
"And in which direction would you like, professor, to influence the
leaders, if I may ask." "Towards the eternal peace, of course,"
says he. "In that case, I'm exceedingly sorry," says the angel -
"We work on the basis of strict realism in our department. Our goal is salvation
of souls. As far as the eternal peace among civilizations of human beings
and humanoids is concerned, sir, we would kindly invite you to read Stanislaw
Lem, he laid it out so beautifully." " I am not a fan of the Poles.
In Polen nichts zu holen, said Kant and walked away, offended, to soak his feet
in a stream, and the angel, an experienced bureaucrat, returned to reading the
article in the quarterly “The Practical Angel” entitled “New methods of therapy for souls killed with chemical weapons. Recommendations for the first posthumous
phase"- with examples, case studies and interviews with experienced heaven
therapists.
- And you
often talk to angels - asked master Adalbert teasingly.
- Eh,
yesterday we had a Guardian Angels Day. They tell you something, sometimes -
said Monsignor Paul and drank the remaining water from the decanter.