GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
poor, but as happy as possible human colony. And as you came here
approximately ten years ago and settled down here, so you have remained.
[GGJ.05_176,08] As Jews by birth you have abandoned the religion of your
fathers, which you certainly never seriously practiced because you opposed
the actions of the Pharisees, left it and accepted that of the Gentiles who
seemed wiser to you. But in this way you became completely godless and
have set the power of great nature in God‘s place. With this you think you
have found the philosopher‘s stone?! But I say to you and can say with the
best conscience in the world that you all have only distanced yourself from it
further and further!
[GGJ.05_176,09] If you are a true wise man, then tell me everything that I
have done from my youth onwards, what I have learnt, what I was, and what I
am now actually! But I have described to you very briefly, yet obviously
without a single false syllable, what happened to you from your birth on in
this world and if time would allow it, I would have been able to describe your
life in the minutest detail! But now judge yourself which of us is the wiser one,
I with my undoubted full belief, or you with your full unbelief!‖
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[GGJ.05_177,01] Here Aziona stared at the placid John and said, ―Listen,
you my otherwise highly treasured friend! What I have now heard from your
mouth is more than my filled larder and much more than the wine produced
from pure water; for what you have shown me is literally true from alpha to
omega! You have never seen me before or spoken to me and you know the
circumstances of my life and that of all my companions as exactly as if you
had been through everything with us! That is a lot – and something which
begins to make me very perplexed. The fact that your colleague, who was
the speaker at first, knew my name did not strike me as strange at all, since
all Caesarea knows where you could have got your information from; but my
experiences in life have never been passed on to anyone by any of us, and
therefore you cannot have heard them from anyone – and you know every
detail, yes, even about the thoughts, decisions and inner intentions I had in
those days, often never shared with anyone from our group! Friend that is
something that cannot be explained in any natural way!
[GGJ.05_177,02] Truly there were supposed to be wise men in Egypt once
who could foretell through the lines of the hand and the forehead of a person
what he had done and what he had to expect; there were also certain temple
sleepers who foretold in a type of sheep‘s cheese some things which had
existed or which would someday happen and exist. But with what mystical
images were all these oracle things demanded into the light of day! New wise
men were again needed who explained such highly incomprehensible
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