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With eyes opened wide and arms stretched out like wings on a plane, the child soared through the air with extreme delight. Without warning, his body maneuvered a sharp turn and headed directly towards the side of a magnificent cloud. Within seconds of his approach, a mouth shaped opening appeared as if to swallow the boy whole, pulling him deep inside the luminous matter. Once within the cloud, his speed of motion slowed down to a moderate rate. Remaining in a horizontal position, the child's body now began to drift through the tunnel of hazy glowing mist as though it instinctively knew where it was going. In the distance, the melodic sound of angelic voices could be softly heard, hypnotically luring the traveler to their origin.
At first the unusual conduit seemed undetermined in length and nondescript in its interior detail, but as the clarity of the music slowly sharpened in volume, so did the child's awareness to the shapes and textures all around him. Soon, patches of warm, soft light began to penetrate through the hazy glowing mist, gradually building in intensity and contour as the little traveler floated onward. Trying to make sense of this unexplained journey, the boy struggled to focus on the details of the tunnel's structural lining, visually searching through the bright mist in search of the one definitive answer to his one illusive question, "Where am I going and why am I going there?"
As the singing continued in a language of its own, the soft shadows and subtle highlights began to define the revealing shapes and transform them into translucent-like human forms. The boy was now in awe and could not believe his eyes, for both sides of this celestial hallway were lined with angels. These exalted beings, tall in stature, bright in coloring, and positioned shoulder to shoulder in elevated rows of three, looked straight ahead as they continued to sing in their pleasingly melodic, hypnotic tone.
The angels in the first two rows stood proudly erect and shrouded in bright diaphanous-like clothing. The angels in the third row stood just as proud, and though they appeared to be dressed in similar fashion, they were noticeably taller and brighter than the angels standing in front of them. Each assembly member was positioned with their arms in a V shape, downwardly directed and comfortably relaxed in front of them with left hands lightly grasping the wrist of their right arms. The young observer also noticed that these translucent-like angels appeared to be softly sparkling from within their forms and floating above the tunnel's mist with no visible signs of a foundation to stand upon.
