GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
then he has given something truly good to the people and can count upon it
that they will not be ungrateful to him.
[GGJ.05_214,08] How many benevolent deeds do very false teachers enjoy
among the gullible people, since they pretend that they understand
something, and in this way they soon find a number of listeners who admire
them and positively compete to make themselves noticed by the teacher with
all sorts of presents! How much more will they do that to a teacher who can
show and explain to them the greatest secrets and conditions of life
thoroughly and with good insight theoretically and of course, wherever
necessary, also practically! I am already here and can be found at any time
for this; but of course I must know myself beforehand most thoroughly what
this whole story is about. Well, I am not hard of hearing, nor am I hard of
understanding; whatever Aziona and Hiram understand, I and all my
neighbors will also understand. But naturally – we are never sold a pig in a
poke, and we never deal in the dark of the night! Well, friend and master,
what is the actual essence then of your business and, let‘s say, new
religion?‖
Chapter 215
[GGJ.05_215,01] Say I: ―In order to show you the issue with a few words, I
say to you: "My task and teaching consist simply in showing man where he
really came from and what he is, and in pointing out his destiny which will be
fulfilled in accordance with the fullest and most evident truth.
[GGJ.05_215,02] Already the Greeks, that is, the sages, said: 'The most
difficult, important and highest knowledge is the greatest possible degree
of self-knowledge.' And behold, exactly this is My concern, for without this
cognition it is impossible to recognize a Supreme Deity as the cause of all
coming into existence, being and permanency.
[GGJ.05_215,03] But whoever does not recognize this and does not direct
his life, his senses and striving towards this one true purpose in life, in order
to recognize himself and a Supreme Deity as the Eternal First Cause of all
being and growing, is as good as lost.
[GGJ.05_215,04] For, just as a thing devoid of an inner, incessantly growing
and more and more consolidating and permanent consistency soon
disintegrates and as that which it formerly was ceases to exist, so also a man
who is not fully at one with and within himself as well as God.
[GGJ.05_215,05] Man can achieve this only by fully recognizing himself
and, consequently, God as his first cause and then, in accordance with such
knowledge, becoming active in his whole life- sphere.
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