GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
speeches of the oracles to the lay people mostly in a humorous and very
smart way, after which often very pompous and elaborate explanations those
inquiring knew what he either did not desire to know at all or what he had
already known for a long time. But things for you went on quite
straightforward without any temple sleep, without any viewing of my hands
and without any mystical babble! Yes, I will put up with such a prophecy! But
now the limping envoy comes and says: How, how is such a thing possible?
Except for an all-seeing and all-feeling divine power that is completely
unthinkable! Should such a thing seriously be achieved alone through full
faith?‖
[GGJ.05_177,03] Says John: ―Yes, friend, but it does matter very much what
one believes. If you firmly believed somebody who told you a lie, such a faith
however undoubting would have no effect because a house can only be built on
a truly firm ground."
[GGJ.05_177,04] Says Aziona: "This is quite correct; but by what criterion
am I to determine whether something that has been claimed to be true is
the full truth?"
[GGJ.05_177,05] Says John: "We have already been talking about this
subject. However, to give you an extra hint I tell you that God, the Lord of the
heavens and the earth, endowed the heart of every human being who strives for
the truth with a feeling that recognizes and grasps the truth more readily than
any intellect, however trained it may be.
[GGJ.05_177,06] This feeling encompasses also the love for truth, and this love
recognizes the truth, soon permeates it with its vital warmth and thus quickens
it. As soon as faith, as a truth permeated by love, becomes activated, it begins
to stir, move and, finally, act spontaneously. Only such confident action is a
guarantee for the complete success of that which is believed without doubt,
however, not within the physical brain but within the heart.
[GGJ.05_177,07] In the brain there are only the soul's sight, hearing, smell and
taste. From these no life emanates, since they are themselves merely effects
produced by life.
[GGJ.05_177,08] For faith to be effective it must be at one with life itself and
not, like the eyes and ears, nose and palate, be a single effect of life,
without a deeper connection save that necessary on the surface. Once your
faith in the truth has become one with your life, it has spontaneously rid itself
of all doubt. It has then only to will, and whatever such a living faith wills, will
come to pass.
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