GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
Chapter 238
[GGJ.05_238,01] "By the resurrection of the flesh do understand the
charitable works of true neighborly love. These will be the flesh of the soul
and will rise, simultaneously with the soul, on the soul's youngest day in the
spirit world upon the true trumpet call of this My teaching as a superior ether
body destined for eternal life. Even if you had a hundred times carried a
body on the earth, you will have only one body in the beyond, namely, the one
we have discussed. — Do you now understand this?"
[GGJ.05_238,02] Peter said, ―Yes, Lord and Master, it is now clearer to me
than ever! But I can still remember a text by a prophet which said something
like this: You will meet your God one day in your flesh, therefore keep it pure
and do not make it unclean by all sorts of sins! You will never see the face of
God in a sinful body! That is approximately how the text goes, and it is hard
for human reason to interpret it differently. How, then, is this to be
understood in its true sense?"
[GGJ.05_238,03] I said, ―Just like the previous one! ‗You will never see God
in your body‘ means as much as : In your good works according to the wellknown
will of God you will see your God, because it is only the works which
the soul performs with its body, which has simply been given to it as a tool,
which give a soul either honor before God or also the opposite. Pure works
give purity, unclean works impurity. Pure thinking in compliance with pure
knowledge and otherwise chaste and clean behavior alone without works of
neighborly love are by far not sufficient to provide the soul with a spirit body
and, therefore, with a contemplation of God.
[GGJ.05_238,04] For he whose soul is still so blind that he fails to understand
that it is not just knowledge but chiefly the works done in compliance with
pure knowledge and faith that give true permanency to the soul, is still in a
pitiful condition and like a man who is quite capable of building a house but
cannot decide to set to work, although he has great quantities of the best
building materials on hand. Say, will he ever own a house in which he can
find shelter from the uncontrollable forces of the raging elements when the
winter storms come?
[GGJ.05_238,05] What use to you in a storm are all the best-founded
knowledge and understanding about what well-built walls of a house can
offer as resistance to a storm, as a result of which those living in the house
are fully secure from its power, if you do not own a house and on your travels
across the harsh desert of your life you cannot reach any other one
anymore?
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