GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
[GGJ.05_183,25] Hiram says, ―But Memphis happened exactly as you have
now told very long-windedly! O my, that is an infamous deception! Oh, oh, -
no that is too foolish that I did not understand it immediately then! Well, the
story with the fortune-telling virgin will indeed also be based on quite the
same way!‖
[GGJ.05_183,26] John says, ―Yes, quite in the same way – up to what she
had told you in advance; but there was a very invisible magician hiding
behind her, who had long directed his all-seeing eye to you! Have you now
understood me somewhat better?‖
Chapter 184
[GGJ.05_184,01] Hiram says, ―My endlessly respected friend, to understand
you I need truly more than the eminent and very limited common sense of a
cynic! You all are putting beautiful flees in our ears with your strange, never
expected appearance and I am almost beginning to perceive that there must
obviously be a higher being in humans than just what we as humans imagine
with much limitation. And now it seems to me as if I must almost think that
this higher being in a human must have both a pre- as well as a post-body
existence; for behold, when I was in Egypt, you can hardly have been in the
world!
[GGJ.05_184,02] But your inner spirit must nonetheless have existed a long
time in advance, so that it as an invisible witness of all my reasons perhaps
unknown to me could attend closer continuing deals. In this way alone I can
sense a little your all-knowledge and all-insight in all my circumstances of life!
Certainly you also knew the circumstances of Aziona‘s life just as well as
about mine. However, that does not make a large difference; for you as a still
pure original spirit have certainly turned your all-seeing spiritual eyes onto
him, just as onto me! A pre-existence of your inner spirit therefore cannot
easily be denied, neither your physical co-existence; but how are things with
the post-existence? All gates and doors seemed to have been closed until
now!‖
[GGJ.05_184,03] John says, ―Much less than for the pre-existence! There is
something about this, but not as individual and free as for the post-existence.
For in order for the spiritual being to avoid remaining continuously bound to
and within the original spirit of the eternal and endless divinity, the divinity
itself has placed matter between itself and the spirit that should become
human. The aim is that the original divine human spirit, if it wants to achieve
a god-like independence, creates for itself from the more etheric and mental
elements a being similar to itself, animates it with a substantial, but
nonetheless also spiritually intelligent soul and then educates the same
without being noticed in the greatest possible freedom of will. And if this soul
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