GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
[GGJ.05_185,04] I would allow myself to remain ten thousand years of life
under very favorable circumstances in life for my own sake, but physically on
this Earth; for no-one will learn everything and be able to say: Now there is
nothing on the whole Earth anymore which is not fully familiar to me! But now
I place a highly perfect spirit on this Earth, only equipped with your highly
wonderful omniscience! With one sharp glance he will get to know all your
secrets of all the future and the past! What happens afterwards, if he has to
remain strictly on this Earth? He could gloat over the foolishness of man and
spend his time using his power to chase peoples to and fro – otherwise he
would have to become bored beyond imagination!
[GGJ.05_185,05] With my common sense I do not see the actual and above
all blissful reason for an eternal after-life. In the end even the question of
space begins to worry us very much. If for example on this Earth people are
created for a hundred thousand times a hundred thousand years like now
and everything that is sea does not become land, where – where then should
all the people have space and find their food? And what space will all the
eternally existing spirits need? For within any space the spirits must also live,
because no existence is conceivable outside the space that is supposed to
be infinite according to Plato.
[GGJ.05_185,06] Therefore it is in my opinion much more logical and
appropriate for pure common sense to accept only a temporary after-life than
an eternal one, which cannot be brought to any sort of beneficial relationship
either with the feelings of life or with space. And at least if we observe things
in the right light, the final annihilation of a temporally animated being still has
the greatest advantage over any existence however profitable, and an inner
feeling always tells me: Despite all even the highest human wisdom the
physical death is and remains nonetheless the last line of all things! – What
do you say to that now, noble and most wonderful friend?‖
Chapter 186
[GGJ.05_186,01] John says, ―Yes, my dear friends, that certainly only
depends from which stand-point one sees life at all, quite particularly
however the spiritual life. That one also has a correct realization of one‘s‘
self, through which a correct and true perception of God and His countless
many miracles and creations, which have already to show you things in the
area of matter, with whose incredibly amazing observance you will never be
finished within eons of years, not to mention then the purely spiritual
creations, of which one can say: Until now it has never entered human sense
to feel even in the slightest part what God has prepared as blessings for
those who truly recognize Him and then love Him above all else and also
their neighbor out of love for Him wherever acceptable, with advice and deed.
How can there ever be talk of boredom, where the most perfect possible
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