GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
[GGJ.05_228,08] This happens for a time until besides the basic idea several
following side ideas have formed harmonious with the first and thus already
represent the comprehension of some concrete issue or action to be
undertaken and its consequences.
[GGJ.05_228,09] Once the thinker has come to such a completely defined,
clear expression, he finds pleasure in it and seizes and penetrates it
immediately with his love‘s fire of life. The love wakes the thinker‘s will and
the ability to act, and then the inner comprehension is lifted to a material
realization.
[GGJ.05_228,10] Now the previous, purely spiritual expression no longer
stands alone as a spiritual image in its full clarity in the sensorial of the soul,
but instead also as a likewise created firm symmetry of the inner spiritual
image in the material nature and is set up for the use of him who had
previously thought it up.
[GGJ.05_228,11] The individual thoughts and ideas, from which a fully
concrete expression was built then, are still totally of a spiritual form and
make up with the spirit one and the same pole, and we will call it the main
pole of life.
[GGJ.05_228,12] The concrete total expression, consisting of many different
thoughts and ideas – if also as a pure, spiritual image in the soul – is,
because it has already a certain fixed existence, no longer obedient to the
main pole, but instead to the counter-pole, because in a certain way it exists
as an excluded whole in all its parts in comparison with the soul and can be
set out through further activity quite as a material thing and thus as a definite
and fixed thing can no longer belong to the sphere of life of the spirit and the
soul. Now listen to Me just a little longer!‖
Chapter 229
[GGJ.05_229,01] (The Lord) ―You, Epiphan, indeed thought to yourself that
also an idea put together out of several individual thoughts can already be a
comprehensible image and thus also can belong to the counter-pole, yes,
even an individual thought existing for and in itself quite defined! There you
are quite right; if so, then the fixed thought is however and likewise such an
idea no longer any idea, but instead already an individual expression existing
for itself, because it stands in comparison with the soul as a well-formed
image or as an already ordered action and thus makes up the counter-pole of
the pole of life.
[GGJ.05_229,02] In the first (positive) pole there is life, activity and freedom,
in the second (negative) pole there is death, lethargy and judgment; and
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