GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
[GGJ.05_201,02] Say I: ―Oh, there is nothing easier! But with your physical
eyes alone it would indeed be impossible. I will thus unite the eye of your
spirit, your soul and your body for a short time, and up there in the sky you
will see quite a large and moderately bright star – it is the so-called planet
Saturn. If you now turn your eyes to it, you will see it quickly becoming larger
and larger, and that will continue until you find yourselves like being on it
completely! Then you may tell one another what you have seen! Now do
this!‖
[GGJ.05_201,03] At this both of them began to focus at the star and quickly it
becomes larger and larger. Soon they see even its cleft ring and several of its
moons. Soon the moons become as large as the moon of the Earth and
quickly even larger; but the planet itself already stands in an awe-inspiring
size and majesty before their eyes. Their loud amazement is already
beginning to exceed all limits; for while they look at all this ever more
perfectly, they express loudly with their mouths everything that they see.
[GGJ.05_201,04] They are now actually very close to the first, but actually
most distant moon of this planet, and Hiram calls out loudly, ―Ah, that is a
huge, but unfortunately very barren earth! There are indeed people and
animals and plants there; but everything is as if very atrophied, and it looks
as if these people have only little intelligence – and they are not at all goodlooking.
The animals are also very poorly represented and look very strange.
The plant world looks very monotone as well and severely atrophied. No, we
don‘t like it there at all!
[GGJ.05_201,05] Ah, another world is coming towards us! Oh, that one is
even worse! There‘s a third, it‘s also nothing – that would be the right world
for wise Diogenes! We have seen it! Hey, there is a fourth and it looks no
better! Just move on! Here comes a fifth already, there everything is very
small; but the inhabited part nevertheless looks better than with the previous
ones. The children are jumping around very cheerfully just like apes! There is
no house to be seen anywhere. The animal kingdom seems to be
represented very simply and very sparsely there as well, and likewise the
beloved plant world! But here comes a sixth and even smaller world, and
even a seventh! Oh. These are terribly ugly!
[GGJ.05_201,06] But now, oh, all lightning, hail and thunder! Now an
enormous world is coming towards us! Oh, it has no end at all! (N.B.: It is the
outer ring.) Ah, it seems to go on in the straightest line eternally with no end!
Oh, it looks quite magnificent there! Extremely long mountain ranges seem to
go on forever, and a number of lakes and rivers are visible, and people and
plants have more similarity to ours. But there seems to be no trace of a
noticeable culture there. The people, who look very strange, seem to know
no cheerfulness and are tremendously huge. But there are no houses, nor
even less any towns.
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