Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise. - Philip José Farmer

Out of nothing I come, through a world populated by asses I pass, and into nothing I go.

Now we have lit a candle to the power
Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light
Itself...

By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion, in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith. Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic.