GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
[GGJ.05_216,03] And what I am capable of doing through My word, each
one of My true disciples must be capable of doing out of himself because his
innermost being is guided by the same spirit as My Innermost Being.
[GGJ.05_216,04] And look, that is something in My new teaching that has
never been seen in such fullness and completion since the beginning of the
world among man! Look here, I have no tools with Me and no secret
ointments and medicines, in My tunic and coat you will find no pocket, and
the same also with My disciples – yes, we do not have and we do not even
carry no staffs and go forth quite barefoot!
[GGJ.05_216,05] Word and will is therefore our entire possessions, and
nonetheless we have everything and suffer no affliction – except if we want to
bear it ourselves voluntarily for the sake of softening the hard human hearts.
Well, why can then I do everything with My word and will, and why can you
not then also?‖
[GGJ.05_216,06] Epiphan says, ―Yes, there it will be very difficult for me to
give you a correct answer about! I have indeed heard the same thing about
you from Hiram and Aziona and have also enjoyed the wine that you created
from the water, which truly left nothing to be desired. Well, if that is capable
of being performed simply with the word filled with will without any other
secret means, and if such ―how‖ is also taught by you, then one must
certainly indeed have the highest respect for you, for your teaching and for
your words! For as far as my somewhat extended knowledge goes, such a
thing has never happened before.
[GGJ.05_216,07] I could indeed say to you now: Friend and Master, give me
now a little test of such a power living in your words which are heavy with will!
But such a thing has at least for me no need at all, because I always prefer to
let myself be taught through clear, wise and powerful words than through
signs. But if you want to give me an extra little test once again, then it will not
harm me, nor my neighbors. Yet just see that as only a desire and by no
means as any sort of demand!‖
[GGJ.05_216,08] I say, ―Teaching is better than signs; for signs coerce, while
teaching leads and awakens the power demanded in itself, and that is then
the truest and fullest possession of man, which he himself has received
through his own activity. But of course, people such as you have already long
ago set yourselves above all issues of forced faith and its measured limits,
even the greatest signs no longer have any forcing power, because they do
not receive any force to compel observers like you for as long as they have
not been accepted by your theory of life in respect of the ―how‖ as clearly
enlightening and very visible. And so I can already perform a little test without
any harm for yours and your neighbor‘s mind.
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