About a certain return

Part 4

The Court Room was an architectural monument. The most important monument. It's believed it has been built by Titans. Right on the middle was sitting the famous Atlas, the strongest supporting pillar. The day of the trail I found myself alone in front of the Great Entrance. I didn't know whether I should get in or I would be called inside. I couldn't hear anything, not one sound, not even the draft or anything else. Only my staggering shoes... Oh, what a strange feeling! I stopped. A rhythm was jumping in my ears and it took me some time to realize there were my heartbeats. I looked at the Great Doors; everything is big, for Titans... and then the Great... (What said I?) the Great Doorman took shape.

– Great Doorman! I mumbled astonished as if I came across beautiful Devis, also known as Pelvis that made wild all the males, of all species, the yobs or the fussy ones.

The Great Doorman... dressed like the spirit from Spirit of the Lamp fairy tale, with large clothing and with a bed sheet rolled around his head (A Spirit dressed up!) said:

– Ha, ha, ha! How are you, dwarf? Have you got an invitation?

I become speechless! "It's some sort of ritual, dear." Well, I learnt my answers.

– I think... Mm! I came here to be called.

– What class are you from? What sort of person are you?

– I've purified myself of all my sin; I'm stranger to the imperfection of those who follow the impulses of the moment. I'm not one of those.

That's a good one! I looked at him upwards. He was really colourful, a smiling bearded face, and I said to myself: It's only in my imagination. I can say any nonsense.

– Are you... the phantom in a bottle?

– You've guessed. I will announce you... only if you tell me the name of the High Court, I heard the low voice, like from inside of a jar, of the Great Guard.

– The Superior Hierarchies, I answered, as unknown by everybody.

These are the shows played by Transvision each evening. Even replayed.

– You can pass over the doorway! But repeat after me: "Great Lady, make all my Crimes and my Evilness vanish! Sweep off my heart the Evil that separates me from You! Destroy the feeling of shame that I caused in your heart for Eternity!" And again: "Great Lady, make...! Take care, warned me the Spirit, or... whatever it was, I cannot tell you a lot regarding this world that you got in, but I can unveil one thing: Even you have a guardian angel. And change your clothes..."

I'm good when it comes to nonsense. The door opened... What a change! If in front of the Great Doors I was a poor admirer of the arcades, granite rafters and columns of the famous Vestibule, the wooden sculptures of the Doors, representing the Birth in a most realistic style -the only fantasy seemed to be the presence of the Whole Making. I cannot deny I had doubts about the divine origin of the Great Lady, that wouldn't come out of me to say: Half of Demiurge-, when I first stepped into the Great Courtroom and the doors creaked... Oh! I stood there... speechless. A graveyard silence...

The Great Courtroom, named also The Great Room of the Lost... or Astray Souls...

"Who's the saint that rules over this monument? What's her name?", "The Lady of the Universal Order...", "I step on the marble floor of the Great Courtroom like a child sailing in a boat towards the Life's Tree. I 'm in the Great Lady's Temple, where my sins will be weighed..."

The walls are covered in mirrors and the room lit by torches. The water was slowly flowing through the Great Hall and the red light was gently flickering sending large beams upon the fiction just about to begin. Four masked men, with monkey heads, came in front of me, staggering.