GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
[GGJ.05_226,01] (The Lord) ―Now there are, however, people on this Earth
who as children of extremely rich parents have enjoyed every possible
upbringing and education. But when they became older and achieved great
posts and high positions of honor, the devil of arrogance rode into their
hearts. They began to rule, to hate their fellow man, to deceive and to
oppress and give in only to the desires of their senses. Their heaven, for
which they strove with all greed, was called external well-being in all
softness, splendor and luxury. Whatever would not serve them was often
persecuted in the most terrible way and destroyed without any mercy.
[GGJ.05_226,02] But now the time and the hour is coming in which such
human souls will have to leave their so beloved body according to the
ordinance of the all-mighty God. What now?
[GGJ.05_226,03] You see, this type of souls have then made themselves
punishable, which every only somewhat correctly thinking person must admit!
And nonetheless they will not be condemned by Me, but instead placed
exactly in such a condition and in such a life that is just the same as the one
they had on Earth, only with the difference that far and wide their neighbors
have, are and want quite the same as those who have just arrived. And then
it is not long at all before the very bitterest war; for each considers himself to
be the highest and most powerful, wants to rule over everyone and considers
everyone who does not want to follow his orders and laws to be a punishable
insurgent.
[GGJ.05_226,04] If only one, two or even three think and feel thus, but the
others were humbler and more obedient spirits, then there would be a sort of
monarchy in the kingdom of the spirits, where one orders and millions obey
him. But it is not so there; for there everyone wants to be a monarch and rule
over his just as domineering neighbors quite tyrannically. And such terrible
passion then bears an almost inextinguishable mutual hate, a constant
argument, conflict, persecution and a positive war, at which indeed no-one
can be killed – but the mutual unlimited hate and anger transforms itself like a
furious destructive fire, which burns out of the fighters, with which fire they
then torment and fight each other.
[GGJ.05_226,05] Now it all depends, if such an evil club should ever achieve
a sort of rest again, that a powerful spirit from the heavens will be sent out to
them and creates rest through an even more powerful fire which spreads well
tangible, indescribable pain, partly only for a moment, but partly also lasting
for a longer time. If such souls have achieved a complete rest through this,
then more and more their foolish passions are muted, the fire that torments
them is extinguished and the angel spirit then teaches them about their great
blindness, stubbornness and foolishness.
[GGJ.05_226,06] If one or the other unhappy and certainly miserable soul
turns towards this, it will immediately cross over into a better condition; but if
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