I thought I was dead. Instead the black wave was gone and I laid alive on the road. But not alone. Someone hovered over me, shielding me with his body. Fear surged into my heart. Then he arose. I beheld another rather strange individual. He was a tall man in a long white robe, with a golden, twisted cord wound around his waist --- and a white veil covering his head and face¹.

He took me by the hand and led me to some ancient ruins² along the side of the road. He sat down and motioned me to do likewise. Then he lifted the veil from off his head and said: “Do not ask my name now and where I come from.” The moment I saw his face all my life, all my blood seemed to rush to my heart and I exclaimed: “I don’t need to ask! I know who you are! You are the One I have always loved!” I immediately recognized his face as the one that I had always known, the image which had been hid in my innermost recesses. The moment I beheld it I knew it to be the face of my only true Beloved. I have never seen a face to equal his, such beauty and strength, and love³.

He held me in His arms, when suddenly he began to grow. Taller and taller he grew, until he seemed to fill heaven and earth and I was just a tiny speck at his bosom.

Suddenly, seemingly disconnected, I found myself sitting next to him in a “jeep”-like chariot⁴. We were riding on a road above the earth. He stopped and silently pointed downwards. The earth was enveloped in blackness⁵, yet my eyes were able to penetrate it. I saw such horrors that until today I cannot describe them. People begged one another to kill each other⁶. Others sought to inflict a most horrible death upon themselves to make atonement. I only can exclaim together with the angel:

“Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth at the blasts of the other trumpets which the three angels are about to blow,”  and exhort everyone again and again to read the prophets and the Book of Revelation.

After I had seen these horrors for which I have no words to describe, my Beloved turned his jeep-chariot around and we rode toward a light which got brighter and bigger as we approached. We rode into the light, which resembled a fire blazing in rainbow colors, and yet did not burn us, and then I woke up.