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In Trier, Audrey tore her gaze away from Hermes's outstretched hand and sincere eyes with great difficulty.
She was not sure whether she had been subjected to psychological suggestion, but for one brief instant just now, she seemed to have truly felt a god's gaze. Her spirit had seemed to merge with a higher existence and receive his "revelation." That wondrous sensation had left her comfortable in body and mind, just like when Mr. Fool's "angel" had spread his wings to protect her long ago... there had been an indescribable holiness and joy to it.
"Divine revelation" was an extremely elusive thing.
The churches' holy scriptures abounded with parables about ordinary or outstanding individuals who suddenly felt a calling one day, received a revelation, and were thereafter bathed in a god's radiance. But Audrey knew that even some saints had never received a divine revelation.
An ordinary Beyonder should already have knelt and devoutly praised the god upon experiencing that sensation. Yet it was precisely this profound, mysterious revelation that jolted Audrey out of her joy and made her worry that some god was trying to take her as a believer.
It was an honor, a grace, but it had come far too inexplicably.
"Please let me... please let me think about it some more."
Someone who could bestow a revelation in front of an angel who worshipped the Creator, and who had descended just as that angel finished preaching-their identity was already all but obvious-
-it was the "God that Created Everything, Lord Almighty" whom Hermes had spoken of!
This... Without letting anything show, Audrey gave herself a little "Soothing," restoring reason to a mind so excited by receiving the Creator's revelation that it had grown somewhat muddled.
In the current world of mysticism, this honorific name had