The Horsingdon Transmissions 2025, No.8: The Whispering Void

 

St. Joseph’s Church on Horsingdon Lane is instructive of the disappearance of the religious traditionalism which once dominated the region, and its replacement by stranger faiths. Once a stalwart bulwark of Anglicanism, the now derelict Church became, about a decade ago, home to the Ministry of the Whispering Void, whose congregants espoused a New Age and Ufologically-inflected spirituality. 

The tenets of this unusual faith held that unseen extraterrestrial forces would communicate a body of secret knowledge - concerning the hidden history of our world and the true nature of reality - to the chosen amongst believers. However, the mystagogic dissemination of such arcana would only occur under very specific conditions: the entities in question would only manifest in wilderness places, and only after certain words had been spoken and the appropriate rites had been howled through by members of the Ministry and, although their apparent materialization would be accompanied by strange, multicolored glowing lights in the sky, the entities never made themselves visible, but would only speak from the shadowy undergrowth in hoarse, buzzing whispers - and of their origin, they would say only that they came from ‘Beyond the Wells of Night and the Gulfs of Space’. 

The nature of the peculiar gnosis transmitted by these secretive beings was, I am told, along the following lines: that those who adhered strictly to the key tenets of their teaching - involving ritual and meditative practices devised to facilitate the utter annihilation of the ego - would achieve an apotheosis in the flesh, and be taken bodily by the invisible entities to very same nameless void ‘Beyond the Wells of Night and the Gulfs of Space’ from whence they came, where the ascended would dwell in wonder and glory for all eternity.

In any case, the Ministry of the Whispering Void are long gone - no one knows where - and St. Joseph’s Church remains abandoned…unless one gives credence to the tales of hoarse, buzzing whispers said to sometimes emanate from within its locked and shuttered walls.