GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
[GGJ.05_158,11] Oh, then everyone will strive to be as active as possible! If
however someone nonetheless becomes lethargic and lazy, he will begin to
show wearing the rod immediately as an example for many others.
[GGJ.05_158,12] And I tell you: Every nation that becomes lazy and nambypamby,
just like every person individually, will get to carry the constant rod on
his back and for ever lose his name from the Book of Life and also his
greatness, power and reputation! That will make the people more and more
perplexed and drive them on to all sorts of orderly deeds, which will be good.
Have you understood this well now?‖
Chapter 159
[GGJ.05_159,01] Cyrenius says, ―Yes indeed, Lord and Master of eternity;
but there is another question, and that consists of this: If people become so
very active and hard-working in the most varied branches of life, which has a
thousand needs, then it is also clear that they will go across to pure worldly
materialism too much from the spiritual path of life, and then there will no
longer be any talk of rebirth of the spirit.
[GGJ.05_159,02] But at the same time I have the teaching from Your mouth,
according to which one should not worry about the progress of earthly life in
the way of the Gentiles, but instead one should seek above all the kingdom
of God and his righteousness – everything else will then already come of
itself.
[GGJ.05_159,03] How does this teaching correspond to this new lesson of
Yours, according to which one should constantly keep oneself busy? Behold,
Lord, this I cannot quite manage! It would therefore be good if You, oh Lord,
would make this a little more understandable for me.‖
[GGJ.05_159,04] Say I: ―We still have an hour and a half left and I can
indeed answer this question for you. But pay good attention to what I will tell
you in a parable!
[GGJ.05_159,05] Behold, two people went to a master of an extremely useful
and beautiful art! A did this in order to learn the art, in order to earn his living
through it in time. He learned studiously and paid attention to everything that
was necessary to make the art one‘s own, and finally was extremely glad
when he received a certificate from the master which said that he had now
fully learnt the art and was now a master himself. There were indeed still
some secrets of the art, of which he knew nothing. In itself that did not bother
him any longer; for he now had the proof, with which he could and must earn
his living without any great effort.
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