Chapter 12
Blinding white light greeted him, and his body was propelled forward in a speed that Eli had never achieved. Stars twinkled in proximity, and a vision appeared before his eyes: his mother, holding a basket of pomegranates walked toward him, smiling. The mountains of his childhood appeared majestically behind her in snowcapped glory. Before he could yell her name, the intense light propelled him forward again, and then his body stopped.
A tall human, his back toward Eli was drawing water from a river. A field of green pasture, surrounded Eli and the stranger, who was stooped over, and who wore a long blue cloak.
Eli called out to the man, “Hello!” The man then stood with a pitcher of water, and walked toward Eli. The man with the water was a mirror image of himself. The man wo
