GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
stone of Bezoar. I know Asia down as far as India, I know Europe, I was in
Spain, in the land of the Gauls and was also in Britannia, I know the traditions
and tongues of these lands, I came back again to Greece and got to know
there wise men from the school of the great wise man Diogenes and said
then: Oh, what a great fool man is! He roams through lands and great
kingdoms for the sake of foolish money; Diogenes, the greatest wise man,
was happy in his barrel, because he had seen, understood and proved the
full nothingness of the world, its treasures and the fullest worthlessness of
the passing earthly life very clearly like no other!
[GGJ.05_175,04] I then left Athens ten years ago with my company and
moved into this desert away from the entire world. Here we built these huts
for ourselves in which we now live very satisfactorily. The small herd of goats
that we took with us and the fish that are richly available here, with the
abundance of which we undertook a small trade with the city Caesarea
simply for the sake of salt, feed us.
[GGJ.05_175,05] But since this city fell prey to the flames a few days ago,
naturally this trade also reached its end, and to our great joy in the last four
days we all have now made the experience that one can also live without
salt, because one has been damned already by some invisible power of
nature to live.
[GGJ.05_175,06] For I and all of us consider life to be a punishment for those
small natures which are separated from the great general nature, which we
animated beings represent. The thinking, self-aware being must feel all the
stimuli of life in order to then in the end have to be separated from them
through certain death all the more painfully. Therefore the main idea of the
true wise man is this: Learn to despise completely the most worthless things
in time, and observe death as the conciliation with the great nature and
consider it as the greatest bliss for every living being! If a person has become
great and competent, he also has achieved the only true and greatest
happiness in life. He then lives quite satisfied and longs quite through and
through for death, which is the greatest friend of every living being.
[GGJ.05_175,07] We have a great joy in everyone for whom we can do a
service with our smallest means; but we also pity out of good and deeply true
reasons every person who makes every effort to achieve something in the
world. Why should we plague ourselves and care for something which exists
only from today to tomorrow? But whoever wants to make us believe
something else, we will simply show them the graves of the dead, from which
no being has ever come forth revived! Whatever one was, one becomes it
again, namely earth for the food of the lucky plants, which are there and do
not feel that they are, and do not think that they will pass away. Oh, how
great and holy is nothingness in comparison with clearly conscious life!
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