GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
then the secrecy should be put aside and the very purest and unrestricted
truth should step into its place.
[GGJ.05_212,06] Why did Plato and Socrates find so few practicing
followers? Because they were mystics, they certainly did not understand
each other and thus even less so were ever understood by anyone else!
Diogenes and Epicure spoke clearly and understandably according to their
understanding and therefore found also a great number of practical disciples,
and that for a religion which gives the people here on this Earth almost no
pleasures at all and makes them cease totally after the bodily death.
[GGJ.05_212, 07] Epicure was rich and recommended the good living for the
duration of life because after death everything was over. Diogenes wanted to
be more generally useful with his religion, because he saw very well that
Epicure‘s teaching can only satisfy the rich, but must make the poor only
even unhappier. He therefore taught the greatest possible privation and
restraint of human needs, and his supporters were and still are the much
stronger, because every person could get to grips with his clearly presented
principles indeed without all mysticism.
[GGJ.05_212,08] Aristotle was much admired for his powerful and clever
manner of speech and was a great philosopher. But his disciples have never
grown too large in number, and even the few were constant investigators and
specialists of deduction and their theories of possibility often went as far as to
be laughable; for whatever seemed to them to be possible any way logically,
could also be physically possible in certain circumstances. Truly, a very
useful teaching for magicians, and the Essenes have long been occupied
with it, although they are Epicurists and also partly cynics for themselves and
for their own household!
[GGJ.05_212,09] But where is the great truth of life hidden, which shows
some moments in the course from which one at least might ask the question
and say: Should that all seriously be a game of whim of the casually ruling
chance? Should the cause be indeed more foolish as a produced and
ordering principle than his works, or can a fully blind power form a being that
is aware of itself and thinks maturely?
[GGJ.05_212,10] The mystics present an all-powerful and highly wise God –
and millions ask: Who is He, and what does He look like? But to this question
there never follows a plausible answer. Yet people soon make use of poetry,
and at once the Earth is swarming with great and small gods, and the idle
people shy of thinking believe in it, and such a belief is almost a double death
to man; for it makes him physically and morally lazy, idle, inactive and thus
dead.
[GGJ.05_212,11] But whoever is a true wise man, he may step forward with
the grain of truth into the open daylight of people and show them clearly the
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