GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
[GGJ.05_212,02] According to your opinion, man hides infinity in himself of
course, and thus also eternity; but whether he also can understand infinity
and eternity himself, the substantial power, the light and the life, even with
the best instruction, is another really very significant question. I do not want
to talk about the impossibility of that, however, as if such a thing should be
quite unattainable for a very enlightened human spirit – for the talents of man
are various, and one person understands something very easily which
remains locked away forever for another despite years of effort, thinking and
striving – but anyone who has been around even just a little ever over the old
limits of usual human animalistic life on the Earth will agree with me that it is
no easy thing to get to grips with these expressions.
[GGJ.05_212,03] Man can understand and temporally learn much; but to
shed a clear light on such expressions, for whose full explanation an eternity
must be necessary, that I would indeed like to call into a certainly not
unfounded question nonetheless. Man only learns one thing after the other
and needs time for this. If he learns much, he will also need a lot of time for
this, and should he learn endlessly much, he will also need endlessly much
time for this. The human life, however, is only a short one, and thus it will
obviously need to have a very clear path in order to learn endlessly much.
[GGJ.05_212,04] You have indeed said something about an original divine
spirit, which is stuck in the soul as the soul is in the body, and that this spirit
as the creator of man in infinity and eternity is quite at home as identical with
such expressions and penetrating everything with its light and with its eternal
life. Well, that sounds indeed very wise and also very mystical – something
which however was always known to all the theosophists, wise men, priests
and magicians, but which has nothing to do with the issue, by the way – but
where and how can a person put himself with such a spirit of his into a
connection that is well and clearly known to him and generally effective, so
that he stands there as a perfected spirit man of God, sees and understands
everything most clearly and is a true lord and master of all nature with the
power of his original will? That, dear master, is quite a different question!
[GGJ.05_212,05] Whoever can answer me this question purely, truly and
equally effective for life, for him I will have great respect. But he may not
come to me with the certain mystical flowery words and phrases; for from this
nobody has ever learnt something very good and very true, and the whole of
humanity has for that reason never come any further or higher, but instead
only ever deeper in its spiritual intelligence. Thus everyone who wants to
teach his fellow man something higher should speak clearly and
understandably, otherwise he would do better to be silent. Whoever is a
magician and can perform miraculous things should do that for the pleasure
of the lay humanity with just as great a mystical secrecy; for there it is in the
best place and does not harm anyone. But if the magician wants to form
pupils in his art who should achieve over time the same that he performs,
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