Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 153
but also most of the highlights in the history of the Shroud. . In 1973, when Kurt Berna, the German Sindonologist who blew the secrecy of the 1969 Shroud Commission, heard that I was researching the Shroud with a view to writing this book, he insisted on flying from Stuttgart to London. First of all his real name was Hans Naber. For a variety of reasons he occasionally used Kurt Berna and John Reban. In 1940 he was drafted into the German army and because he showed a talent for writing, he became a reporter writer for his company, a job which consisted mainly of writing up internal matters for the unit. . Naber was sent to France and he took part in the battles of Normandy. When the German army was thrown into disarray by the advancing Allied armies, he deserted. escaped capture by changing clothes and made his way back to Stuttgart. After the surrender most Germans had to scrounge for the necessities. Naber was no exception. He turned to black marketeering, which furnished him a modest living, until 1947 when Jesus appeared to him. . Around 4 a. m. on February 16th 1947, lying awake in his parents' home, Hans Naber saw on the wall of his bedroom a technicolour film of The Passion. Included in it were the scenes of the trial, crucifixion, entombment, resurrection and ascension. "They were so real," he later told a magazine "that. I was under the impression they were actually happening. It went on for seven days. I could not eat or sleep. The only thing I could do was drink water. I could not get out of the bed. " On the seventh day with Naber "physically exhausted and on the verge of madness,” something even more unusual happened. "On one wall of my room, at a stroke, a very intense light appeared and it diffused through the whole room. Within it Jesus appeared. He was tall, he had long hair, a beard, a moustache. It was very clear light, eerie, but at the same time not blinding, permitting a clear vision of him. He was dressed in a white tunic and there were no wounds on his body. " What Jesus said made such an impact on Naber that he picked up a pen and wrote it down as though someone were guiding his hand. In essence the message was as follows:“I did not die on the cross. The wounds on my hands and feet took away my strength. The pains burned my body. 158