Episode 536: The Lord of the World - Book 3 - The Victory: Chapter 6, Part 1

In this vivid passage, a Syrian priest awakens from a nightmarish dream in which countless faces stare at him, prompting a frantic sense of death and spiritual dread; he struggles to regain his bearings on a bleak, moon‑less rooftop, glimpsing faint lights, a mysterious white bundle, and a lone figure writing amid a circle of illumination that summons a monstrous shadow. After the unsettling visions subside, a blinding candle‑flame appears, heralding a messenger who guides him toward an ethereal dawn and a vaulted sky, leading him down a stairwell into a solemn, candle‑lit audience with the Pope and several cardinals. In this clandestine council, the clergy discuss cryptic, urgent communications about persecution, secret meetings, and a looming crisis, culminating in the Pope’s directive to the Syrian priest to expose the Blessed Sacrament, warn villagers of imminent danger, and grant a plenary indulgence—while the priest, haunted by his vision, declares he now walks by sight rather than faith.

From the book The Lord of the World by Reverend Robert Hugh Benson

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