GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
Chapter 165
[GGJ.05_165,01] (Cyrenius:) ―At this Mark said, on the way here: ‗There is no
talk of being angry; but nor can it please me either about you if you all want
to prove to me quite dryly that I am only talking a pleasure out of pulling the
wool over your eyes with these miraculous things in order to cause your
downfall. I am no liar and no deceiver, but instead – more than you ever were
– a greatest friend of the most faithful truth. What could I possibly gain from
pulling the wool over your eyes?! I indeed knew in advance that you would
find it difficult to believe, despite the fact that things behave according to the
very strictest truth; for I know some virtues of the Pharisees, and among
them also their total unbelief in all things divine.
[GGJ.05_165,02] How should faith occur among people of the very crudest
material kind, whose inner eye of the soul has been suffering for a long time
already from the very worst glaucoma?! Yet faith is the eye of the soul, through
which the soul admits the spiritual images. The soul begins only gradually to evaluate
their worth and purpose within its spirit, just as the physical eye first admits the images of
the outer world without being capable of judging the value and purpose of that which it has
seen. This often occurs long afterwards through the awakened divine spirit within the
heart of the soul. A stone-blind man whose eyes have turned into the densest, darkest
matter does not receive any images from the outer world. He has nothing to present to his
soul for evaluation and cannot judge the value and purpose of colors. He knows nothing of
shadow and light and even less of the form of things.
[GGJ.05_165,03] Whoever cannot believe has a blind soul, which he has
blinded through his many sins! And that is now, as has been for a long time,
the case with all the Pharisees. Therefore, they can only believe what they are
capable of grasping with their hands, just as a physically blind man can only come to an
anyway poor comprehension of an object by touching it.
[GGJ.05_165,04] From what I have told you it should be clear to you how I
could know in advance that you, in the blindness of your souls, would hardly
accept what you were to see and hear about this. But I thought to myself
that the blind would give a seeing leader more trust, because they are very
much in need of a leader. But you call yourselves as very blind people seers
and consider me – if not exactly blind, nonetheless, which is much worse, to
be bad. And that is exactly what does not please me about you at all and
shows that your heart must be a very bad one and you yourselves must be
the greatest deceivers because you cannot place any trust however artificial
even in the very most honorable person at all.
[GGJ.05_165,05] You will hopefully see that one cannot possibly be very
particularly good to such people; for such people misuse the goodness of
those who are often good to them somewhat unconsciously excessively. But
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