PhDr. Juraj Lajda

"But each [printing] sheet had a number, a marking, and it had to be shown what it was used for. And I remember that at that time Betka said to me and to my colleague Anton: 'Well, you have to get the sheets and we have to reproduce it. You have three days. You understand, communism... No business. So what? Well, we went on hunger strike because it's always a tool, you pay something to get something, some knowledge. That was the first thing, then we went, we prayed, I don't know, we meditated, that how to do it. But the important thing is that we had that faith, you know? That's the vision. And now I was supposed to get the sheets. So what? So I found some stationery, office supplies. And I know I went there that morning, I don't know, 7:00 in the morning. They were open, so I went in there and very cautiously I went in, but I was already like, I'm going to run away because it was suspicious to even ask. And I said, 'Please, do you have any printing sheets?' And they said, 'You know what, we do,' and that, 'Who do you need it for?' That was normal. And I was actually at the door about to run away so they wouldn't identify me. And I thought, 'Well, it's for the Metallurgical Project.' And the lady says, 'Well, go to the warehouse, they'll give it to you.' And now there was this old gentleman, and he says, 'Well, what? You want fifty printing sheets here?' I think he gave me fifty, or a hundred, it was in fifties, two boxes. And he suddenly says, 'Give me your ID card,' and now I say, 'Oh, sir, please, I'll dictate it to you.' So I sort of opened my [ID card] and I made it up. Like, my name is Jan Sokolovsky, and I put some numbers on it. And he wrote it down, like an older gentleman. And now the paradox was that I went to the office (as in, the accountant) with the printing sheets and the dispensing slip and I presented it there. And they billed the Metallurgical Project for fifty printing sheets!"

"He always had me read a chapter. And he never gave me more. That was like A4, I'll say more about that later, that was Principles of Creation. That's what it was called. And it explained: the basic principle, the origin of evil, about Jesus, about history, and the conclusion. In the present day what can be done and so on. And he would always give me one chapter and then when I understood it, he would give me another chapter. And nothing else. I knew absolutely nothing about a society, an organization. I was only interested in the ideas. And then I remember, this was already in August, 1971, August 27th. We were walking in the city of Bratislava, in Zahradnicka Street, near the Palace of Justice. And at that time there were these ID cards, these little books. Maybe somebody remembers. And suddenly he opened it and there was a photograph. Black and white, tiny, the size of the ID card. He opened it up and showed me a picture of the founder. And he just said this is the new messiah - for our time. That this is the man."