GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
will be indeed easily comprehensible for every even somewhat more humane
thinker why we truth-seeking and truth-loving Romans always must be
become more and more averse and hostile regarding your institute. What
should happen to the humanity which stands under you all in a short time at
such a method of instruction? Yes, yes, friend, it is high time to set some
quite appropriate boundaries for your terrible business – otherwise very soon
all the Jewish lands will sink into the mud of death!
[GGJ.05_164,03] At this very cogent remark by old, honest Mark you said
nothing for a while – but in yourself you thought: Damn! Now I have burnt my
fingers! That‘s it with the measly truth! As long as one lies through ones‘
teeth, one gets through the world quite well; but only one true word mixed in
among an otherwise very well-placed lie – and the hyenas already sit in wait!
What can I do now to get rid of the Romans‘ severity? I will now take on
another shade just like a chameleon, and there will be a devilish affair if I
cannot bring the old Roman fox to a better conviction of us, otherwise this
foolish talk could bring us into the greatest embarrassment! He will now be
lied to by me left and right with the most honest face in the world, and I bet
that he will greet us as his newly-won friends in the friendliest way! But there
is just one question – how to start a conversation with him again?! It should
not be too hard; for he also seems to be thinking how he could somehow win
us and transform us for his affair with even more cogent proof!
[GGJ.05_164,04] You see, those were your thoughts in the harbor, and
indeed on one of the five great and new ships! Soon you gathered courage
and said to Mark: You seem to be angry about my previous comment! You
see, I wanted to be dishonest and as sly as a fox; then I obviously would not
have spoken quite so openly with you and nor would I have shown you what I
actually think and how I actually am in my innards! For we Pharisees know
very well how to turn coats in the wind; but since you meant it honestly with
us nonetheless as we noticed and despite your somewhat limited realization
from your childhood, then it would truly be too despicable if I had shown
myself before you in a God knows what sort of a pious and believing mask!
Would it then have been a hard thing for us to supposedly believe everything
exactly that you told us about the Nazarene? You see, you would have been
satisfied with that and would have led us then before Cyrenius as fully
converted people! On its own, one honesty demands another; I spoke
therefore quite directly and there was not a jot which I held back from my
inner thoughts and judgments.
[GGJ.05_164,05] To believe things as they are supposed to have happened
here, without personally being a witness of them, is indeed something
extremely difficult for a person of an awakened common sense, especially
since this would stand alone as something that has never existed before, that
one would have to throw all the better experiences that one has made purely
into the sea. For until now there has never been anything similar on the
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