He posited a future where, far from any glorious or holy revelation or reckoning, a decadent and corrupt humanity was violently and utterly supplanted, and wiped out by a new category of being. Garland Hillier's final essay, published in 1867, and simply titled 'L'Avenir,' 'The Future,' was supposedly a rambling and meandering speculation on the end of the human race, influenced by Darwin's recent publication of The Origin of the Species, and his own shattered faith. He was supported by several literary friends, as he was reputedly a gifted editor, even if his own work was often all but incomprehensible. He spent the next twenty years publishing widely derided collections of poetry, as well as essays on belief and atheism that were roundly ignored by the philosophical salons of the time. Now, Gertrude, I'm sure you'll have noticed that date came and went without any sign of Jesus returning, and Miller's followers noticed the very same thing, calling it 'The Great Disappointment.' Most of his followers stuck with him, and gradually turned into the Seventh-day Adventists, but Garland Hillier apparently took it harder than most, abandoning the movement and returning to his native France the following year. They followed a preacher named William Miller, who believed he had calculated exactly when the end of days was coming, and pinned it down to October 22nd, 1844. I don't know how familiar you are with the Millerites, but they would eventually grow into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Now, Hillier was a member of the Millerite movement, in upstate New York during the early 1840s. She was reluctant to talk, though I eventually managed to get the story out of her.īernadette had, apparently, received a call from a colleague in Paris about a discovery regarding Garland Hillier. She had an encounter I believe is directly connected to the new emergence, and I managed to track her down.

She works at the Faculté de Théologie, in the University of Lyon, and is an expert in eschatology, specifically failed apocalypse predictions. I didn't want to believe it either, not at first, but I was alerted a few months ago to the case of a woman named Bernadette Delcour. I - still have a few things to clear up over here.īut I thought it would be best to let you know as soon as possible. Sorry I can't be there in person to go over all this with you. Taken from a letter to Gertrude Robinson, dated 22nd January, 2006. (inhale) Martin Blackwood, archi- Īssistant to Peter Lukas, Head of the Magnus Institute.

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