The Great Encounter

- 24 - that it was them that controlled me. The only thing that annoyed me was the word “GOD”, because I couldn’t grasp at this point why the CREATOR should find it necessary to deal with me in such a conspicuous manner. I was to go to church right after the severe storm. It was getting close to 4o’clock in the afternoon. In the pouring rain I ran to the Catholic Church. And once again a pre-Easter Mass was in progress, but it was poorly attended. I was placed right across from the altar. Lightning flickered through the church windows of the St. Mary Church. I prayed the Lord's Prayer. - I suddenly realised that the Lord's Prayer had a blemish: It might have crept in during a translation: “and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us”. - I had the feeling that all of us were lost, if GOD didn’t forgive us more , well, a thousand times more than we forgive. I quickly moved to rectify this mistake and prayed: “and forgive us our trespasses more than we forgive those that trespass against us.“ The palms of my hands burned like fire. Was this supposed to be a sign from the crucified one? - I might have dealt with GOD at most in my thoughts, but I hardly ever thought of CHRIST. IKARUS might have used the phrase: “Praised be JESUS CHRIST”! - But CHRIST didn’t play a great part in my thoughts. The power of the spirit IKARUS came to me one evening as I lay in bed and blew a peculiar shiver down my spine and cricked my body to such an extent that my calves cramped immediately. The power this spirit had over my body gave me the fright of my life. The bible also reports that the prophets were thrown to the ground. I can well understand this. IKARUS was here with another message: “IT’S IMPERATIVE THAT YOU GO TO THE LIME TREE CHURCH TOMORROW, BECAUSE THE CONFIRMERS ARE ASSEMBLED THERE FOR THEIR EUCHARIST. WHAT IS EX- TRAORDINARY IS THE FACT THAT CHRIST WILL BE IN THIS CHURCH IN PERSON.“ This was the first time that CHRIST was mentioned in person. Not included in a greeting, but quite clearly expressed: CHRIST will be there in person, that is to say, in this church in spirit naturally. The following day was actually Maundy Thursday. I visited the minister of the church on this very day and told him in a few words what I had experienced. The fact that he even listen to me was a miracle. In spite of that I sensed his impatience and I was very close to being ejected from the church. He didn’t conceal his thoughts at all and took his leave with the words: “I’m sorry, but I cannot believe in your spirits with the best of my intensions”. - This sounded very “encouraging” to me! The keeper of the faith who preaches about immortality, doesn’t believe in the hereafter, or an infringement with our sphere of existence! When I thought about it on that Maundy Thursday, I came to a strange conclusion: I didn’t control my thoughts as per usual. Maybe I was dealing with schizophrenia after all, one that had settled in the depths of my consciousness? Strange as it may seem, but I heard the same words over again in my