Paul Klee Ancient Sound

Paul Klee Ancient SoundRene Magritte HomesicknessArthur Hughes The King's Orchard
Balthamos looked away.
Will said, "So you're not going to tell me this secret of yours? All right. Tell me this, instead: what happens when we die?"
Balthamos looked back, in surprise.
Baruch said, "Well, there is a world of the dead. Where it is, and what happens there, no one knows. My ghost, thanks to Balthamos, never went there; I am what was once the ghost of Baruch. The world of the dead is just dark to us."
"It is a prison camp. "Everything about it is secret. Even the churches don't know; they tell their believers that they'll live in Heaven, but that's a lie. If people really knew..."
"And my father's ghost has gone there."
"Without a doubt, and so have the countless millions who died before him."
Will found his imagination trembling.
"And why didn't you go directly to Lord Asriel with your great secret, ," said Balthamos. "The Authority established it in the early ages. Why do you want to know? You will see it in time.""My father has just died, that's why. He would have told me all he knew, if he hadn't been killed. You say it's a world, do you mean a world like this one, another universe?"Balthamos looked at Baruch, who shrugged."And what happens in the world of the dead?" Will went on."It's impossible to say," said Baruch