GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
power of the heavenly Father. Yet if a seeker is too fanatical in the course of
his concentrated search, he can easily be led astray, so much so that he
completely forsakes God and, finally, comes to the conclusion that all being
and all coming into existence are merely the work of the blind and mute
forces of nature.
[GGJ.05_251,07] And behold, it is exactly such phenomena that above all
can lead genuine naturalists completely away from God, for they perceive in
nature an immense capacity for reproduction, without design and purpose,
that could well dispense with some wise God. To be sure, they will never by
way of material research be able to perceive an inner cause for such
phenomena because their souls are so deeply immersed in matter as to
render them incapable of ever touching and seizing God's Spirit of light and
love.
[GGJ.05_251,08] But whoever has touched and fully seized the spirit of God
in his soul will then be taught by his own spirit how and why such events
come into existence - and then only such a spiritually awakened person
should research the things of nature and, unveiled, show them to his
ignorant and dependent brothers so that they will become all the keener to
awaken their own spirit within their soul.
[GGJ.05_251,09] But in order to get back to our grasshoppers, they indeed
appear all over the warmer parts of the Earth, but mostly at certain times in
Egypt and in south Asia. That is the strongest production of spirits of natural
life because of the substance of the climate, or they develop there most often
and frequently because the material ground of the Earth, the heat of the sun,
its strong light, the constantly powerful dew and another number of other
conditions influence so strongly that constantly a large number of previously
even more bound Earth spirits become free, soon join with the spirits of the
air, then cocoon themselves in a certain way in a light matter and further in
the pupae then clothe themselves with a body and transform into animalistic
Earth life.
[GGJ.05_251,10] In this way in the very warm lands of the Earth the
grasshoppers often exist, and indeed very often, although they can also be
hatched from their own eggs.
[GGJ.05_251,11] I say to you all: Everything, trees and plants and animals of
the Earth are determined to release the directed spirits from hard matter, and
that goes from level to level up to man. What then happens with man, you
already know, and so I have nothing more to explain about the natural
phenomenon lying before us – but now call Peter in to Me; for I will announce
something to him and to you all!‖
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