GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
[GGJ.05_272,04] Truly, if all that will happen literally, then things look very
bleak for humanity, and under such circumstances it would be a thousand
times better if one had never been born and never become a person! How
many thousand times a thousand people know nothing about our teaching,
are deep Gentiles, and their innocent fate will then be eternal punishment in
the most terrible fire of hell!
[GGJ.05_272,05] Truly, if I observe God‘s wisdom, love and goodness
correctly, such a final sentence for the people seems to me almost
impossible! Oh Lord, You will certainly be able to give us a better explanation
of this! But if things are so, then we people are the unhappiest creatures on
the whole Earth!‖
[GGJ.05_272,06] Said I: ―Yes, My dears, this issue is difficult to explain to
you with few words for the moment; but I have explained all this to My
disciples in the smallest detail, and they will explain it also to you.
[GGJ.05_272,07] What the prophets wrote about it in their inner inspiration,
they wrote down in parables which are pure correspondences of the naked
truths hidden in them. Whoever understands the ancient science of
correspondences will soon clearly see what the metaphors of the prophets
mean.
[GGJ.05_272,08] Since you have never heard of correspondences, you know
only the crude, natural meaning of the Scriptures. There is, however, always
in the metaphors of prophetic scripture a threefold meaning: First, the
material-spiritual, second, the pure spiritual and, third, the pure heavenly
meaning coming from the heart of God.
[GGJ.05_272,09] The first influences the moral life of man in the sense that
he, as a natural man, thinks and acts in accordance with a right upbringing,
meaning, that he does not remain grounded in matter but turns away from it
and uses it only as a means through which he can penetrate more and more
deeply and clearly into the pure spiritual. A man who has been instructed in
these things and acts accordingly will soon find the correspondence between
matter and Spirit. Having Bone this, he will enter from the spiritual into the
heavenly or, rather, into the pure spiritual. From there it is easy to enter into
the pure divine, heavenly. Only then will he see in their full clarity and
fundamental meaning the revelations contained in the prophetic books.
[GGJ.05_272,10] But whoever considers the purely material images in the
Scriptures to be everything, proves that he himself is still purely matter, which
is judged and must be, and that he keeps your judgment in his
consciousness and in his feelings for all his earthly life and floats in the
constant fear and terror of falling into that purely material state after the
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