GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
[GGJ.05_240,13] But eighty years ago this terrible spirit was a very usurious
pig trader and had an important trading business, became very rich and in
the end as a Jew even ran a slave trade, where he made use of great cruelty.
Finally he died a miserable death, and his fate was to reach the kingdom of
the devils as a devil himself.
[GGJ.05_240,14] And because it suited him there very badly, he began to go
into himself and though in his innards: Why did I have to become a devil
then? My bad, gluttonous body was guilty. Let me go back again into the
good, sober flesh of an innocent boy and I will become an angel in it! And if
the boy‘s flesh should feel even the slightest desire for gluttony, then it shall
immediately be chastised by me!
[GGJ.05_240,15] And behold, since this was a very serious decision of the
indeed very terrible soul, it was practically granted to him. The success of it
however is a good one for the boy, and the previously very terrible soul has
now a better direction and taken on even something more human. Anything
further will be done by the highly barren and inhospitable abysses of the
moon!‖
[GGJ.05_240,16] At this the man asked me further and said, ―Is the moon a
world as well? And how did my son become a lunatic then? For besides the
possession he must have been that, because the full moon had a great
influence on his suffering.‖
[GGJ.05_240,17] I said, ―You will not understand, or only with difficulty, that
the moon is also a type of Earth and world, although it is so; but My disciples
understand it, and the later descendents will understand and see it only too
well. But that your boy always had such a great fear of the full moon was not
dependent on his nature, but instead in that of the spirit plaguing him, which
originally came from that very scanty and highly inhospitable world. Anything
further you do not need to know.‖
[GGJ.05_240,18] When many standing around also heard this, they said,
―That is an extraordinary person! He performs miracles like a great prophet,
but immediately afterwards he begins to speak nonsense and speaks like a
madman!‖
[GGJ.05_240,19] But the man went up to them and said very seriously, ―He
is certainly not crazy – but we are, because we are not capable of
understanding his wisdom!‖
[GGJ.05_240,20] Then there was a short heated exchange among them,
which the healed boy brought to an end with a few very cogent words.
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