GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
advantages, however they may be, is necessary. The people should never
want to raise themselves above the plough, spade, axe and saw for the
preparation of the most necessary needs of life and should lay no value on
anything but alone on the purely spiritual, inner formation of life; then it could
work. But where is that now possible with the present worldly culture of the
people?! Who would abandon the countless material worldly interests?
[GGJ.05_203,05] Yet if your ever so divinely true and pure teaching is sown
into this old, worldly quagmire, I wonder what masses of weeds will crop up
among its noble young shoots. Truly, if we could have a country of our own, far
from all other people and inaccessible to them, with us the teaching would be
safely preserved in its purity for the longest time, but I doubt if it will fare so well
in the rest of the world.
[GGJ.05_203,06] This, as mentioned before, is my opinion about the Messiah,
whom the Jews are expecting in vain, in their own way. I may have made a big
mistake there; but since, according to your word, every man can reach the
perfection of his life only through his own activity, that is, through the cultivation
and proper conduct of his heart and inner life, he needs no other Messiah but
one just like you, namely, a true teacher who is knowledgeable and thereby
most wise in all spheres of life. Everything else is a poetic chimera and
stands alone without any trace of truth just like a rose bush full of buds and
thorns, whose fruit is as good as none at all, because it gives the people no
nutrition and is little or not at all suitable for anything else. What is your
opinion then of this view of mine?‖
Chapter 204
[GGJ.05_204,01] I say, ―I am quite in agreement with your opinion as regards
the main issue, but cannot wholly accept it when you attack the way in which
such a teaching is founded, spread and preserved, although in a certain
respect your view also has something going for it.
[GGJ.05_204,02] As regards the sifting of men and all their worldly works of
culture, such a sifting at Noah's time visited most parts of the then inhabited
earth with small exceptions the way Moses described it, though in metaphors.
But a truly wise man familiar with the science of correspondences can easily
discover from them the historical facts.
[GGJ.05_204,03] But how was humanity, although descending only from the
extremely pious and wise Noah, after only a few hundred years?
[GGJ.05_204,04] Already at the time of Abraham, Sodom and Gomorrah, with
the other ten cities, were on account of their great depravity destroyed by
fire and brimstone from above, including all the people and livestock, so much
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