GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
[GGJ.05_183,02] In Alexandria even the urchins imitated your tricks – and
among them also even better and more successful ones! Thus you did very
little there and moved on to Kahiro. When you arrived there, you wanted to
perform; all they said to you was: Let‘s see everything that you can do! And
you gave some samples of your art. They pitied you and said: Dear people,
there you have some farthings for the journey! Do not let yourself be seen in
cities; but perhaps in some small towns you might perhaps earn your supper.
[GGJ.05_183,03] Then you moved on to Carnac, where you also did nothing,
likewise in Elephantine, and you even dared to go as far as Memphis. But
there you were fully buried! If a Roman governor there had not saved you
from your affliction, things would have gone very badly for you. However, the
kind-hearted Roman governor gave you accommodation for three months for
the sake of the beautiful Klia and made you acquainted there with a very
wealthy Persian society of magicians, so that you could or should learn
something from them.
[GGJ.05_183,04] Well, this society of magicians, however, did not want to
make a deal with you unless you would remain as their immediate slave for a
full ten years alongside the significant fee of education! Then you calculated
the deal thus: Ten years their slave plus the great fee of a hundred pounds?!
If I am their slave for nine years, in the tenth they can beat me to death as a
slave, so that their secret is not betrayed in Greece, and then my hundred
pounds would disappear along with me! The magicians would have eaten the
hundred pounds – and me, the crocodiles of the Nile! No, I won‘t do that to
myself!
[GGJ.05_183,05] That was thus your good and firm decision very secretly in
yourself. But to the magicians you said: ‗My highly wise artists, when I have
seen occasionally almost all your greatest and most secret pieces as a guest,
then I will perhaps enter into an even more advantageous contract with you!‘
Here the magicians were taken in by you and brought you their greatest and
boldest performances to view at their shows, which happened twice a week.
[GGJ.05_183,06] I will not mention the many other pieces that do not belong
to our issue, for the sake of valuable time, but instead just those which
actually brought you out of all composure. And these consisted of this: An
active, somewhat thirty year old Arab came forward and announced with very
serious and respect demanding words that he would empower a virgin simply
with the power of his will and through the laying on of his bare hands so that
she would guess even the thoughts and a number of secret things from
anyone on demand. Also she would tell everyone‘s age, and if anyone
wanted, also his future happy or unhappy fate exactly and without any
mistake.
[GGJ.05_183,07] That was true thunder and lightning for you. The virgin was
now brought forward and set on a reclining couch. The magician laid his
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