The document discusses teachings from The New Revelation about the relationship between the rich and powerful with the world. It provides several quotes and passages that convey the following main ideas:
1. The rich are advised to use their wealth to help others and make friends who will welcome them into heaven, as true riches come from being faithful with what is given.
2. When helping the poor and less fortunate, one should do so without seeking recognition or reward. True virtue comes from selfless acts of love and generosity.
3. Greed and selfishness stem from the animal nature within humans, but one can overcome this through cultivating love for God and others. The misuse of free will for selfish ends is
This is a study of Jesus as salvation to the uttermost. He is ever faithful as our eternal high priest, and he ever intercedes for us guaranteeing He will save to the uttermost.
Christ was exalted by God to be a Prince and Savior in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins. As the exalted one, Christ meets the needs of humanity by providing both great leadership as King and compassion as Savior. Through His exaltation, Christ is able to give the gifts of repentance from sin and forgiveness of sins to those who turn to Him. These gifts come through Christ's work and are applied by the Holy Spirit, transforming the soul.
Jesus was the breaker of the devil's powerGLENN PEASE
Jesus took on human form to overcome the power of Satan and free humanity from the fear of death. By living a perfectly sinless life and willingly dying, Jesus defeated Satan's power over death and transformed death for Christians from an object of terror into a gateway to eternal life and salvation. Through his incarnation and atoning sacrifice, Jesus sanctified human nature and enables believers to overcome sin and share in his divine nature.
This is a study of Jesus as the son of man. He made this title the main one he used for Himself, and so it has a significance that we often do not grasp.
This document provides a foreword for the devotional book "God's Amazing Grace" which contains selections from the writings of Ellen G. White. It notes that this is the tenth devotional volume published using her writings, showing the significance of her work. It explains that while Ellen White did not originate the writings, they contain instruction God gave her during her lifetime to give to the world. The foreword expresses the hope that readers will be led to a more intimate experience with Jesus Christ and partake of His amazing grace through reading the devotional selections.
Jesus was to be revealed in blazing fireGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus being revealed as a blazing fire when He returns with the mighty angels. He will come in judgement on those who are unbelievers.
This is a study of Jesus as salvation to the uttermost. He is ever faithful as our eternal high priest, and he ever intercedes for us guaranteeing He will save to the uttermost.
Christ was exalted by God to be a Prince and Savior in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins. As the exalted one, Christ meets the needs of humanity by providing both great leadership as King and compassion as Savior. Through His exaltation, Christ is able to give the gifts of repentance from sin and forgiveness of sins to those who turn to Him. These gifts come through Christ's work and are applied by the Holy Spirit, transforming the soul.
Jesus was the breaker of the devil's powerGLENN PEASE
Jesus took on human form to overcome the power of Satan and free humanity from the fear of death. By living a perfectly sinless life and willingly dying, Jesus defeated Satan's power over death and transformed death for Christians from an object of terror into a gateway to eternal life and salvation. Through his incarnation and atoning sacrifice, Jesus sanctified human nature and enables believers to overcome sin and share in his divine nature.
This is a study of Jesus as the son of man. He made this title the main one he used for Himself, and so it has a significance that we often do not grasp.
This document provides a foreword for the devotional book "God's Amazing Grace" which contains selections from the writings of Ellen G. White. It notes that this is the tenth devotional volume published using her writings, showing the significance of her work. It explains that while Ellen White did not originate the writings, they contain instruction God gave her during her lifetime to give to the world. The foreword expresses the hope that readers will be led to a more intimate experience with Jesus Christ and partake of His amazing grace through reading the devotional selections.
Jesus was to be revealed in blazing fireGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus being revealed as a blazing fire when He returns with the mighty angels. He will come in judgement on those who are unbelievers.
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - Messages for the ones lost in the flesh - ed 1Simona P
The document discusses teachings from The New Revelation about laziness and sexual sins. It warns against laziness, which can lead to neglecting spiritual education and opening the door for evil spirits. It also warns against fleshly desires and lust, which are among humanity's greatest evils and can damage souls. Specific teachings include not engaging in sexual activity before ages 24 for men and 17-18 for women, in order to protect innocence and health. Harlotry is strongly condemned.
Jesus was illustrating why he eats with sinnersGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus illustrating why He eats with sinners. He made His critics see that they would rejoice in finding their lost sheep, and so He and all heaven will rejoice in finding and recovering each lost sinner.
Lord's Messages for His Children (from The New Revelation)Simona P
The document provides excerpts from messages given by the Lord to His children on various topics. The messages encourage doing good, spreading benefactions, and drawing nearer to God. They warn that evil will grow if not stopped, and that a limit is set to evil. They advise the rich and powerful to not amass power at the expense of others. They caution against losing oneself in fleshly desires.
The document discusses how the Holy Spirit convinces people of judgment. It provides several examples from the Bible where Jesus judged the "prince of this world" (Satan): 1) During his life and ministry, through miracles and teachings; 2) On the cross, where Jesus was victorious over sin and death; 3) Through the Holy Spirit continuing Jesus' work after his ascension, convicting people of their sin and the coming final judgment. The document emphasizes that convincing people of righteousness is not enough without also convincing them of God's coming judgment on sin and vindication of righteousness.
Jesus was the breaker of the power of deathGLENN PEASE
1. Jesus took on human form through the Virgin Mary to conquer sin and death. By dying and rising again, he broke the power of Satan who uses death to control humanity.
2. In becoming human, Jesus identified with our struggles and showed us that death is not the end, but a transition to new life. His death overcomes the fear of death so that Christians can face it without dread.
3. By living a sinless life and willingly dying, Jesus acted as a perfect sacrifice to atone for humanity's sins. His death and resurrection allow believers to be freed from guilt and the power of death.
This is a study of Jesus being forgiving on the cross, No one was worthy of such forgiveness, but Jesus urged the Father to forgive them because they were ignorant and did not know what they were doing.
This document summarizes a Christian text about good works and behaviors that please God. It discusses how good works flow from faith, that believers should carefully maintain good works, and examines works in the context of different relationships like marriage and parenting. The best way to motivate good works is by affirming the doctrine of justification by grace alone. The summary focuses on the key points made in the introduction about how faith leads to good works and the need for believers to thoughtfully uphold righteous behaviors.
This document discusses the story of Jesus forgiving a sinful woman from the Bible. It makes 3 key points:
1. Jesus gladly takes up the task of forgiving sinners. He approaches them with boundless sympathy and draws them to Himself to make them feel God's saving mercy.
2. Faith, not love, is the condition for forgiveness. Faith brings the soul into union with God and saves by trusting in Jesus as the sin-bearer. Forgiveness then leads to answering love.
3. Saving faith implies penitence. The woman's deep penitence and love made the Pharisee's disapproval forgotten in her attraction to a Savior who could forgive
Two thieves were crucified alongside Jesus. One thief railed against Jesus while the other rebuked the first thief. He acknowledged they deserved punishment but said Jesus had done nothing wrong. He asked Jesus to remember him when He came into His kingdom. Commentators discuss how a person can have a spiritual transformation in a short time, like the penitent thief. They also discuss the thoroughness of his change shown through his words, and his sudden transition from the lowest to the highest estate by being with Jesus in paradise. Lessons are about the hope of late repentance being accepted by God if genuine, but the danger of presuming on a deathbed repentance.
This is a study of Jesus casting out no comers. All whom the Father bring to Him He will in not wise case out, but save all. None can be lost who truly come to Christ.
This is a collection of writings that focus on the old man Simeon who was told by the Holy Spirit he would not die until he beheld the promised Messiah, and he did hold baby JESUS.
This document discusses the origin and nature of sin. It explains that sin originated with Lucifer when he became prideful and discontent in heaven. Lucifer sinned by doubting God's character and authority. Adam and Eve were the first humans to sin when they disobeyed God's command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Eve was deceived by the serpent into thinking the fruit was desirable. Adam sinned by following Eve after she persuaded him to eat the fruit also. The document explores what constitutes sin and emphasizes that the Bible defines sin as the transgression of God's law.
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - About sins, misery and temptations ed 1Simona P
The document discusses the origins of evil, sin, temptation, and misery in the world. It asserts that these things arise from humanity's misuse of free will and are not due to divine revenge. When people live according to God's order, years will be blessed without calamity. However, when people act without restraint, pursuing excessive wealth and conflict, it corrupts nature spirits and leads to disasters. A single righteous person can positively influence many through their spiritual emanations, just as a single evil person can corrupt many. True perfection lies in following God's teachings to overcome worldly influences.
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - Messages for the poor and suffering ones - ed 1Simona P
[1] The document discusses teachings from The New Revelation about poverty and suffering. It provides passages that offer comfort and guidance to the poor, encouraging them to turn to God for help rather than begging.
[2] One passage is a parable told by Jesus about a rich landowner whose children attended school away from home and sometimes suffered need, with some people showing them love and others not. The landowner rewarded those who helped his children.
[3] Another passage notes that while poverty causes difficulties, it can foster humility and modesty, but should not be allowed to spread too much as it could lead people to theft or harm others. The poor should first turn to others, and if refused,
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - Divine advices concerning the right social order ...Simona P
The document discusses proper social order and concepts like private property, charity, and money from discussions between Jesus and others in the New Testament. Jesus argues that true faith and trust in God is more important than wealth, and that private property and money are acceptable only if used to help others in need rather than for selfish purposes. Communities should prioritize brotherly love and caring for the poor.
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - Messages for the ones lost in the flesh - ed 1Simona P
The document discusses teachings from The New Revelation about laziness and sexual sins. It warns against laziness, which can lead to neglecting spiritual education and opening the door for evil spirits. It also warns against fleshly desires and lust, which are among humanity's greatest evils and can damage souls. Specific teachings include not engaging in sexual activity before ages 24 for men and 17-18 for women, in order to protect innocence and health. Harlotry is strongly condemned.
Jesus was illustrating why he eats with sinnersGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus illustrating why He eats with sinners. He made His critics see that they would rejoice in finding their lost sheep, and so He and all heaven will rejoice in finding and recovering each lost sinner.
Lord's Messages for His Children (from The New Revelation)Simona P
The document provides excerpts from messages given by the Lord to His children on various topics. The messages encourage doing good, spreading benefactions, and drawing nearer to God. They warn that evil will grow if not stopped, and that a limit is set to evil. They advise the rich and powerful to not amass power at the expense of others. They caution against losing oneself in fleshly desires.
The document discusses how the Holy Spirit convinces people of judgment. It provides several examples from the Bible where Jesus judged the "prince of this world" (Satan): 1) During his life and ministry, through miracles and teachings; 2) On the cross, where Jesus was victorious over sin and death; 3) Through the Holy Spirit continuing Jesus' work after his ascension, convicting people of their sin and the coming final judgment. The document emphasizes that convincing people of righteousness is not enough without also convincing them of God's coming judgment on sin and vindication of righteousness.
Jesus was the breaker of the power of deathGLENN PEASE
1. Jesus took on human form through the Virgin Mary to conquer sin and death. By dying and rising again, he broke the power of Satan who uses death to control humanity.
2. In becoming human, Jesus identified with our struggles and showed us that death is not the end, but a transition to new life. His death overcomes the fear of death so that Christians can face it without dread.
3. By living a sinless life and willingly dying, Jesus acted as a perfect sacrifice to atone for humanity's sins. His death and resurrection allow believers to be freed from guilt and the power of death.
This is a study of Jesus being forgiving on the cross, No one was worthy of such forgiveness, but Jesus urged the Father to forgive them because they were ignorant and did not know what they were doing.
This document summarizes a Christian text about good works and behaviors that please God. It discusses how good works flow from faith, that believers should carefully maintain good works, and examines works in the context of different relationships like marriage and parenting. The best way to motivate good works is by affirming the doctrine of justification by grace alone. The summary focuses on the key points made in the introduction about how faith leads to good works and the need for believers to thoughtfully uphold righteous behaviors.
This document discusses the story of Jesus forgiving a sinful woman from the Bible. It makes 3 key points:
1. Jesus gladly takes up the task of forgiving sinners. He approaches them with boundless sympathy and draws them to Himself to make them feel God's saving mercy.
2. Faith, not love, is the condition for forgiveness. Faith brings the soul into union with God and saves by trusting in Jesus as the sin-bearer. Forgiveness then leads to answering love.
3. Saving faith implies penitence. The woman's deep penitence and love made the Pharisee's disapproval forgotten in her attraction to a Savior who could forgive
Two thieves were crucified alongside Jesus. One thief railed against Jesus while the other rebuked the first thief. He acknowledged they deserved punishment but said Jesus had done nothing wrong. He asked Jesus to remember him when He came into His kingdom. Commentators discuss how a person can have a spiritual transformation in a short time, like the penitent thief. They also discuss the thoroughness of his change shown through his words, and his sudden transition from the lowest to the highest estate by being with Jesus in paradise. Lessons are about the hope of late repentance being accepted by God if genuine, but the danger of presuming on a deathbed repentance.
This is a study of Jesus casting out no comers. All whom the Father bring to Him He will in not wise case out, but save all. None can be lost who truly come to Christ.
This is a collection of writings that focus on the old man Simeon who was told by the Holy Spirit he would not die until he beheld the promised Messiah, and he did hold baby JESUS.
This document discusses the origin and nature of sin. It explains that sin originated with Lucifer when he became prideful and discontent in heaven. Lucifer sinned by doubting God's character and authority. Adam and Eve were the first humans to sin when they disobeyed God's command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Eve was deceived by the serpent into thinking the fruit was desirable. Adam sinned by following Eve after she persuaded him to eat the fruit also. The document explores what constitutes sin and emphasizes that the Bible defines sin as the transgression of God's law.
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - About sins, misery and temptations ed 1Simona P
The document discusses the origins of evil, sin, temptation, and misery in the world. It asserts that these things arise from humanity's misuse of free will and are not due to divine revenge. When people live according to God's order, years will be blessed without calamity. However, when people act without restraint, pursuing excessive wealth and conflict, it corrupts nature spirits and leads to disasters. A single righteous person can positively influence many through their spiritual emanations, just as a single evil person can corrupt many. True perfection lies in following God's teachings to overcome worldly influences.
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - Messages for the poor and suffering ones - ed 1Simona P
[1] The document discusses teachings from The New Revelation about poverty and suffering. It provides passages that offer comfort and guidance to the poor, encouraging them to turn to God for help rather than begging.
[2] One passage is a parable told by Jesus about a rich landowner whose children attended school away from home and sometimes suffered need, with some people showing them love and others not. The landowner rewarded those who helped his children.
[3] Another passage notes that while poverty causes difficulties, it can foster humility and modesty, but should not be allowed to spread too much as it could lead people to theft or harm others. The poor should first turn to others, and if refused,
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - Divine advices concerning the right social order ...Simona P
The document discusses proper social order and concepts like private property, charity, and money from discussions between Jesus and others in the New Testament. Jesus argues that true faith and trust in God is more important than wealth, and that private property and money are acceptable only if used to help others in need rather than for selfish purposes. Communities should prioritize brotherly love and caring for the poor.
the most vast work transmitted to humanity through Jakob Lorber; it presents a history narrated by Jesus Christ Himself, describing Lord’s and His closed ones’ lives in the last three years of His life on earth, containing a great number of wonders, dialogues and teachings that greatly develop and enrich the records from the Gospels of Matthew and John; it also contains detailed revelations explaining essential passages from the Old and the New Testament and predictions concerning events occurring during the last 2000 years, culminating with facts that characterize the technological civilization of the XX-th Century and disclosures of a scientific nature which were validated long time after Jakob Lorber wrote about them. In the Great Gospel of John, one can practically find the essential answers to all the fundamental questions of life – these are to be found in the clear, but also extraordinary deep descriptions of the divine and human nature, of the creation and the material and spiritual evolution.
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - Reasons for the Right Judgment and for the Salvat...Simona P
The document discusses the salvation of human souls and reasons for right judgment. It states that God has given two laws: the law of "must" regarding physical forms, and the law of "should" regarding life teachings. No soul can be fully corrupted, as all have a primordial life germ. It is better to establish institutions to heal sick souls through spiritual doctors rather than punish them with laws and judgments. True judges should cure ill souls with compassion rather than make them worse.
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - Messages for the people of good-will - ed 1Simona P
The document discusses the spiritual condition of humanity and warns of coming signs. It notes that what happened during Jesus' first coming as a man will happen again, with wars, disease, and persecution of followers serving as early signs. It states that the wind of spiritual freedom is blowing and human rights are demanding respect after being trampled for too long. However, the mighty of both church and world who have trod on humanity will reap what they have sown. Jesus advises remaining moderate and pure so as to stand before the Son of Man.
the most vast work transmitted to humanity through Jakob Lorber; it presents a history narrated by Jesus Christ Himself, describing Lord’s and His closed ones’ lives in the last three years of His life on earth, containing a great number of wonders, dialogues and teachings that greatly develop and enrich the records from the Gospels of Matthew and John; it also contains detailed revelations explaining essential passages from the Old and the New Testament and predictions concerning events occurring during the last 2000 years, culminating with facts that characterize the technological civilization of the XX-th Century and disclosures of a scientific nature which were validated long time after Jakob Lorber wrote about them. In the Great Gospel of John, one can practically find the essential answers to all the fundamental questions of life – these are to be found in the clear, but also extraordinary deep descriptions of the divine and human nature, of the creation and the material and spiritual evolution.
CHRISTIAN SUPERNATURAL TEACHINGS, BIBLE CLASS LESSONS, GOSPELS BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU, THE SUPERNATURAL TEACHER AND SOLE SPIRITUAL HEAD, BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR
Brochure New Revelation - The Way To Eternal LifeSimona P
This document discusses the way to eternal life through following Jesus' teachings on several topics:
1) The importance of humility and penance over self-justification. Jesus welcomes the penitent.
2) Jesus teaches Zorel about following a narrow path of patience, gentleness, forgiveness and generosity towards others to cultivate love and wisdom.
3) Jesus warns of the dangers of fleshly desires and lust, especially corrupting children and maidens. He advises strict rules to protect purity and prevent damaged souls. Whoremongers and those who ruin the innocent will face severe judgment.
Lord's work through Jakob Lorber containing a collection of impressive narrations referring to the conditions of death and existence in the beyond of a few representative persons: a famous man, a rich man, a scholar, a young mundane woman, a general, a pope, a ministry, a poor man etc.
This document provides a summary and analysis of the biblical parable of "The Rich Fool" from the book of Luke. It discusses the context and background of the parable, including how it relates to a request made to Jesus about dividing an inheritance. The summary then analyzes each part of the parable in detail, focusing on the lessons about the dangers of greed and materialism. It concludes by reflecting on how the rich man's soul would suddenly be required by God that very night, as a warning against his foolish priorities and plans.
Lord's work through Jakob Lorber, containing the story of live after death of the known Austrian politician and revolutionary Robert Blum and of some of his acquaintances; a great depiction of Robert’s evolution from atheism and a self-centered personality to a full love for the Lord, as also of many other impressive spiritual destinies; extraordinary revelations about the hellish and heavenly conditions of life after death and about various spiritual and natural facts.
the most vast work transmitted to humanity through Jakob Lorber; it presents a history narrated by Jesus Christ Himself, describing Lord’s and His closed ones’ lives in the last three years of His life on earth, containing a great number of wonders, dialogues and teachings that greatly develop and enrich the records from the Gospels of Matthew and John; it also contains detailed revelations explaining essential passages from the Old and the New Testament and predictions concerning events occurring during the last 2000 years, culminating with facts that characterize the technological civilization of the XX-th Century and disclosures of a scientific nature which were validated long time after Jakob Lorber wrote about them. In the Great Gospel of John, one can practically find the essential answers to all the fundamental questions of life – these are to be found in the clear, but also extraordinary deep descriptions of the divine and human nature, of the creation and the material and spiritual evolution.
This document contains 15 notes from Zühre, a previous work written in Arabic by the author. The notes discuss various spiritual and philosophical topics. They criticize a corrupt version of Europe that promotes harmful philosophy and civilization. They also contrast this view with the path presented in the Quran, which brings happiness in this life and the next. The notes aim to guide people towards truth and eternity rather than temporary things of this world.
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - Compatibility with paranormal records - ed 1Simona P
The first men were taught directly from spirits from Heaven. As humanity became more vain, arrogant and worldly focused, they no longer needed or wanted spiritual teachings. They established their own schools and teachers who sought worldly benefits rather than helping people. As a result, pure spirits appeared less to worldly people. However, the permission for spiritual contact remained - it was humanity's worldly attitudes that changed, not the ability for spiritual interaction."
Brochure - NEW REVELATION - Messages for the followers of the Lord - ed 1Simona P
The document provides guidance for following the teachings of Jesus Christ. It emphasizes living with humility, love for others, and being doers of the word, not just hearers. True disciples must demonstrate patience, forgiveness and sacrifice in their daily lives as Jesus exemplified. During Lent, believers are called to reflect on how closely they have followed Jesus' example of humility and love.
1. The document discusses Surah At-Jathiya (The Kneeling), including its name, which is derived from a word in verse 28. It does not mention when it was revealed.
2. The subject matter answers doubts of Makkan disbelievers about Tauhid (monotheism) and the Hereafter, warning them for rejecting the Quran's message. It provides arguments for Tauhid from signs in creation.
3. It criticizes the disbelievers' ideas that life is only in this world and there is no resurrection or accountability, arguing this goes against reason and justice. It says their denial stems from wanting to freely follow lusts without consequence.
SPURGEON, "The first verse, in an exclamation of surprise, explains the intent of the Psalm, viz., to invoke the interposition of God for the deliverance of his poor and persecuted people. From Psalms 10:2-11, the character of the oppressor is described in powerful language. In Psalms
10:12, the cry of the first verse bursts forth again, but with a clearer utterance. In the next place (Psalms 10:13-15), God's eye is clearly beheld as regarding all the cruel deeds of the wicked; and as a consequence of divine omniscience, the ultimate judgment of the oppressed is joyously anticipated (Psalms 10:16-18). To the Church of God during times of persecution, and to individual saints who are smarting under the hand of the proud sinner, this Psalm furnishes suitable language both for prayer and praise.
Jesus was urging forgiveness 7 times a dayGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus urging forgiveness 7 times a day. It someone offends you but comes and repents, you are to forgive them even if they do it seven times in a day.
This joyful strain of Christian hope is
based upon two all-important truths concern-
ing the human soul. In the first place, it as-
sumes that man is very high in the scale of
being ; and, in the second place, that he is en-
trusted with the great responsibility of deter-
mining his own character, and of securing the
blessings of existence by rightly adjusting
himself to the conditions of life in which an
all- wise Creator has placed him.
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2. Após a morte, Roberto tem suas primeiras impressões no além, sentindo desorientação e desejando não existir mais.
3. Ele então encontra Jesus, que o conforta e esclarece questões sobre fé, autoridade divina e propósito da vida na Terra.
O Grande Evangelho de Joao - vol. 6 (Jacob Lorber)Simona P
1. O documento é um livro religioso dividido em capítulos que descrevem ensinamentos e milagres de Jesus.
2. Muitos capítulos descrevem Jesus curando enfermos e ensinando sobre Deus e a vida espiritual.
3. O livro também discute temas como a natureza divina de Jesus, a evolução das almas, e profecias sobre o futuro do povo judeu e da humanidade.
1. O documento descreve a evolução espiritual de um bispo católico após sua morte.
2. Ele experimenta diversos desafios emocionais e tentações em sua jornada no além, sendo guiado e ensinado por Jesus.
3. Ao longo de suas experiências, o bispo abandona gradualmente suas crenças e doutrinas católicas, aprendendo lições de amor, humildade e serviço aos outros.
O Grande Evangelho de Joao - vol. 5 (Jacob Lorber)Simona P
palavra do Senhor transmitida a Jacob Lorber; representa a coroação da Nova Revelação contendo todos os fatos e ensinamentos ocorridos durante a peregrinação do Senhor sobre a Terra. Nesta Obra monumental nos é dada a Luz Completa, pois João, o Amado, era o escrivão das coisas ocultas, conforme consta no capítulo 20, vers. 30.
Este documento é um resumo da obra "A Infância de Jesus" de Jakob Lorber. Ele contém 210 capítulos que descrevem eventos da infância de Jesus, como sua fuga para o Egito, encontros com figuras históricas como Cornelius e Cirenius, milagres realizados por Jesus como criança, e suas conversas ensinando sobre Deus e a fé.
Divine answers to faith realted issues (from The New Revelation)Simona P
The teachings of Jesus Christ from His New Revelation through Jakob Lorber and Gottfried Mayerhofer respond to all major issues of the Christian theology ( a few examples, contained also in the booklet with the same name that can be found here too, as also almost all the works of the New Revelation in English. Other references on www.new-revelation.ro, www.hisnewword.org
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Brochure - NEW REVELATION - Messages for the rich and powerfull - ed 1
1. MESSAGES FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL
(Ed. 1)
Excerpts from THE NEW REVELATION of JESUS CHRIST
www.new-revelation.ro
THE NEW REVELATION
From 1840 to 1864, and from 1870 to 1877, JESUS CHRIST dictated to the Austrian musician Jakob
Lorber and to German Gottfried Mayerhofer the greatest and largest spiritual message ever offered to
humanity.
The revelations were received by the two scribes of the Lord through Inner Word, meaning Lorber and
later, Mayerhofer heard them very clearly in the region of their heart and wrote them faithfully down,
without adding any personal contribution. They were perfectly awake, they didn´t experience any states of
altered consciousness, nor were they some mediums for automatic writing whose hands were guided by a
spirit-entity.
The writings of Lorber and Mayerhofer, comprising tens of volumes are known as THE NEW REVELATION,
the extraordinary spiritual teaching that JESUS CHRIST brought to mankind, almost 2000 years after his
earthly life.
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2. Here you can find some of the teachings of the New Revelation concerning the relationship of the rich and
powerful with the world, other people and God Himself. Their compatibility with the Christian Scriptures,
with the commandments of love for God and neighbor and with each man’s conscience is to be easily
verified and validated by any honest and good-willing seeker.
“And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail,[c] they may receive
you into an everlasting home. He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust
in what is least is unjust also in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon,
who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who
will give you what is your own? (Luke 16:9-12)
“Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or
thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?
Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ And the King will answer and say to them,
‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to
Me.’ (Matthew 25:34-40)
A word for the rich and powerful
The animal nature of man
Self love and need for power – causes of all evil
Good man – bad man. The nature of heaven and hell
About the evil-doers
Speculation. Concerning speculators and usurers
Blessing and curse of riches
The rich young man
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3. Spendthrift
The consequences of over-abundance
Rich or poor, important or humble, the human being determines his destiny
himself
Advices for a rich man
Love for the world and matter and the fear of death
The trial of the heartless and wicked in the beyond
The destiny of a rich and proud general in the beyond
The destiny of a pope in the beyond
The destiny of a minister in the beyond
God's mercy
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A word for the rich and powerful
12. Tell the ministers and lords of the world frankly and truthfully that their offices do not rank higher than
the offices in My kingdom. Soon I will destroy every office that is against Me. Woe to its servants! For I am
the Most High, My law is eternal as am I and shall remain so in eternity. The moths, which are endeavoring
to nibble at My law and make new laws from their dirt in order to eradicate My law, the latter will crush
with all its weight and destroy them as though they had never existed. Everyone who offends against My
laws can be forgiven when he changes his ways, recognizes his mistakes, repents, turns to Me and remains
in Me and I in him. But the One who tries to undermine My law shall be crushed by it, and he shall cease to
exist forever. All the worldly laws undermine My commands, unless men who are instructed by My Spirit
give them out of My love. Woe upon the tyrants and despots who rule because of the might and authority of
their thrones. For when their measure is full, they shall experience the power of the weak. The ground is
Mine and the field is Mine.
This tells you the True One, the Eternal God of Love and Wisdom, and He makes it known through a fool to
the worldly wise. Amen.
I, Jehovah. Amen."
(chap. 2, The Household of God vol. 1)
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4. The animal nature of man
“[1] (The Lord) “Certainly, one might well say here and there and also judge: Yes, yes, it is good to preach
about the virtue of generosity and to present greed as a most despicable vice; but who could actually help
the fact that the overwhelming tendency towards wasteful generosity has a strong motive in one person,
while for another it is the very sheerest greed?! For both people it is the same thing, an external appearance
of their inner love, from which a blessed feeling awakes of its own accord which he then, like every other,
keeps for himself. But the first man only becomes sad if he does not possess such abundance that he cannot
make his poor neighbors happy, and the second becomes sad when he does not receive as much as he
wishes – or even loses! That being so, everything lies in the nature of the person from his origin, and then
basically there can be neither a vice nor a true virtue. For the greedy person generosity is a vice – and for
the generosity greed is just as much so. Can water help the fact that it must be of a softer and more flexible
nature, and who can damn a stone because of its hardness?! The water must be what it is, and likewise the
stone.
[2] On the one hand, this is certainly true; it is the nature of the generous to be generous and the nature of
avarice is the exact opposite. But the matter stands thus: Every human is born as a child with the impulse
for selfishness and avarice, and such a soul always has within it the coarsest material animal element,
which applies particularly to those souls that are not from above but only from this earth. However, also
the souls coming from the stars to this earth are not quite free of this element.
[3] If man is brought up in this animalistic element, he transforms it more and more into his own life’s
ground, i.e. into his love. But because this is so animal-like, man remains a wild animal and has nothing
human about him but the miserable form, the loosened tongue and due to the orderly construction of his
brain a good capacity for cognition which, however, is more and more activated into base activity by the
animal element. It can, therefore, recognize as good and conducive to bliss only that which the purely
animalistic elements wants.
[4] Therefore, if someone wishes to maintain that in the real meaning of truth there is no virtue and, thus,
novice and that it is wrong to condemn avarice as opposed to generosity, let him be referred to this My
explanation; let him consider and ponder it well.
[5] But if a gardener plants two fruit trees in his garden and cares for them as he should, it will surely be of
no matter to him if only one of the trees bears fruit, but the other, being of the same kind and standing in
the same earth, nourished by the same rain and dew, the same air and the same light, does not bear any
fruit, yes, not even a satisfactory canopy to provide shade? The insightful gardener will say then: That is an
undutiful, ill tree which consumes all the juices that come to it; we will see whether it cannot be helped!
Then the gardener will try all the means he knows and if all these means do not help in the end, he will cut
down the unfruitful, ruined tree and plant another one in its place.
[6] A miserly and selfish man, therefore, is a spoilt man, within and through himself, and cannot bear any
fruit of life because he consumes all life within him.
[7] On the other hand a generous person is already in the correct order of life because he bears abundant
fruit outwardly.
[8] But a tree cannot help the fact that it bears fruit or not; for it does not form the fruit itself, but the spirits
rising in its organism from the just richness of nature form them through its power and through the highly
simple and therefore also very limited intelligence. But man stands on a point through which the unlimited
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5. intelligence of his soul begins to form and to transform itself into a tree bearing the richest abundance of
fruit of life.
[9] If he does that, for which he has all the means, only then will he become a true person in the true,
eternal order of God; but if he does not do that, he remains an animal which has no life in itself as such and
therefore also cannot bring any life to his neighbor through good and kind deeds.” (The Great Gospel of
John Book 7 chap. 79)
Self love and need for power – causes of all evil. The great deceit behind them
"All the ills presently apparent in the world were not created by Me, but are the product of free will being
misused by men. Being free they are able to do as they like, but they will also have to accept responsibility
for the consequences." (The Lord's Sermons 83)
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(The Lord:) [4] “By the enemy who keeps sowing the weeds among the pure wheat is, therefore, meant the
old self-love, and in its wake, well-known to you, the weeds, and in a broader sense the sum total of all
matter, falsehood, Satan, devil.
[4] But My word is the noble grain of wheat, and your free will is the fields in which I, as the sower, am
sowing the purest grain of My eternal order.
[6] Do not submit to self-love, but fight it with the sharp sword of true, unselfish love for Me and for your
fellowman, and you will keep the field free of all weeds and will once enter into My kingdom as a precious
fruit yourselves.
[10] And now I shall for a short time open your eyes, so that you can see for yourselves all I have just
explained to you.” (The Great Gospel of John vol. 4, chap. 108)
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“(Robert Blum says)[…] all that you now saw, more or less represents arrogance in general terms, – the
spirit of depravity you saw fighting in front of the window, and the intense combat, was interlaced with
treason! Behold, this all is the work of arrogance, whose native place of birth is self-love. But just as pure
love of God and neighbor is the foundation of all well-being, bliss, harmony and unity – just so self-love is
the hate of everything approaching it and hence the basis for despising and persecution of everything
wanting to oppose this evil attribute.
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6. This pure love shares everything it has, yet cannot eternally grow poor but only richer and mightier. For
when it gives it receives back a thousand fold. Self-love however loses a thousand fold what it takes and
steals. Because, having neither strength nor authority in itself, it has to take all kinds of self-impovering
substances through other powers. Through these it certainly maintains itself in the world for a while in a
make-believe glitter and certain pretence of greatness. But with its rising cost it finally impoverishes
completely, then contorting, rearing and winding up like a hungry worm. But this serves it little, only
speeding up its demise.
Who therefore wages war? Behold, it is self-love as the mother of arrogance and bent for domination!
And who confronts and defeats it? It is the power of pure love, which is righteousness and judgment
proper out of God! Self-love indeed puts up every possible means for its own maintenance and revenge,
against God’s righteousness. But this serves it nothing, as it thereby mightily weakens itself at each end
and point, whilst pure love only waxes mightier with every blow of the same fight.” (From Hell to Heaven,
chap 93)
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“[3] If you perform a good deed to your fellowman with your right hand, then let it not be noticed by your
left hand. God, who surely sees everything, no matter how much it is hidden, will surely pay you back.
[4] When someone gives a loan with his surplus money, he should not lend to those who can pay him a high
interest for that, but to those who are really in need, without interest. And if they also cannot pay back his
capital, then he should not bear a grudge about this and not take the possessions of the poor who often
became poor without their fault, but remit them in all kindness and neighborly love what they owe to him.
Truly, then I will pay back the capital of such merciful believer, with high interest and establish for him a
great treasure in the Kingdom of Heaven, from which he will eternally be able to live from in great
abundance.
[5] Truly, even a drink of fresh water that your love has given to a thirsty person, will be rewarded by Me.
[6] If all the people would live together in this manner, and would live and act according to God’s will and
advice, which was oftentimes revealed to them, there would never be any need, distress or sadness among
them on this Earth. The people are causing all misery only themselves by their evil spirit of usury. In the
first place it are the little ones and the poor who suffer, but after that it comes a thousand times worse over
the great and powerful ones, because by their tendency to usury, and their imperiousness that cries to
Heaven, they are thieves and robbers of the people and so, at the right time they can expect their
deserved reward from Me.
[7] Just look to all the great kingdoms on your well-known Earth. Where are those former so mighty kings
of Babylon, of Nineveh and of Greece, and the mighty Egyptians and their pharaoh’s? They have all
withered, and so it will also happen to those great kingdoms in the future because of their usury and their
too great lust for power. Because men’s extremely selfish usury and the too great lust for power and the
craving for glitter represent the actual Satan, a prince of this world, who, because he does not possess any
light of life from the Heavens, is completely Hell himself, and to whom it is indeed allowed to raise himself
up to a certain height for the trial of the free will and his love, but when that height has exceeded, then
comes the judgment, and then Satan and Hell will be thrown into the abyss of ruin. Thus, stay all in My
teaching, and fight with pure love, good will and all meekness and humility against Hell and against Satan,
then in return you will receive the crown of victory of the eternal life and you will establish already on this
Earth a true Kingdom of God. (The Great Gospel of John vol. 9, chap. 101)
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[4] I said: ‘Could I, or should I be plainer still? Sure, sure, I could, if I would. But here I intend to be no
plainer and therefore I tell you no more than that you are old, brittle garments and skins, unfit for My
Teaching. For would this not deprive you of your sweet earth-life, which of a truth is your greatest
possession and for the improvement of which you leave no stone unturned, going for large fish-hauls even
on a Sabbath, to simply provide your earth-life with an existence of ease and a spot of splendor besides. But
the poor you don’t see, nor the sick and hurting, nor the hungry and thirsty.
[5] What worry, to the one filled, the poor, hungering and burning of stomach? Likewise, you who are well-
clad do not feel the cold in winter, for do you not have means to make winter cozier than the hot summer?
And if one half-naked and shivering meets you, telling you of his plight and asking for some warm garment,
you get annoyed, serving him with hypocritical words: “Depart, you sluggard. Had you worked in summer,
you would not be wanting in winter. Besides, it’s not all that cold and as a beggar one should not be all that
soft and delicate.”
[6] The beggar however says: ‘Sir, I worked all summer and fall, but my hard work’s wages were not
even a thousandth’s part of what my master gained from my work. Therefore our master can walk
about well-dressed even in winter but us his poorly-paid workers who already easily used up our meager
wages in summer, now have to suffer in winter, not because not working in summer, but simply because
we can’t make ends meet. Our master’s profit is our want.’
[7] See, this is what the beggar is saying, notwithstanding the fact that there are among the beggars those
sinners who deserve their poverty.’
[8] Say John’s disciples: ‘Ah, you are exaggerating. It is not so. A faithful and proper worker has never had
cause for complaint about his employer. Those who want work will get it winter and summer, wages, food
and clothing. But we all think it right that the lazy should be shown the door.’
[9] I said: ‘You indeed, that I know only too well. But not I, that I tell you. The “why” you shall hear at once.
Tell Me, who was it that created the sea with all the good fish?’
[10] Say John’s disciples: ‘Now, what a question. Who but God alone could do so?’ I said: ‘Good then, tell
Me, have you perhaps received advice from God according to which you alone have sole right to catch the
good and expensive fish of the sea, selling them at a high price, then putting the entire profit in your bags,
hardly passing the thousandth part to your good workers, who alone did the heavy work under life-
endangering conditions.’
[11] Say John’s disciples: ‘This again is a silly question. Where on Earth is the man who can produce a
property deed from God? For this, God has appointed a head of state and same issues property-rights in
God’s stead, whoever is recognized by the state as a property owner is so also before God. Besides that,
every legal property owner has to annually for his dearly paid-for right to pay all kinds of tithes and rates
to the state and is therefore doubly entitled to make the necessary profit from his property.’
[12] I said: ‘Yes, indeed is it so on Earth, but not through God, but through mankind’s selfishness and
domineering. It is they who have instituted such laws and order, but in the beginning of the world, this
was not so, for a long time the Earth was then the common weal of mankind.
[13] But when from among mankind the children of Cain made a part of the Earth subject to inheritance,
making it into law and into a selfish, domineering order, it then did not take another thousand years.
[14] God allowed the Sinflood to take place, drowning them all but for a few who were saved. And thus it
shall be again.
[15] God indeed is long-suffering and exceedingly patient, but shall soon get tired of your doings. And then
watch who shall become owner of the Earth after you. (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 2, chap. 24)
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“[11] Look at the Pharisees how they believe that only they are serving God, with all kinds of meaningless
wisdom and stuff of words, yet they only serve themselves and their own welfare. It is purely impossible to
let even the smallest teaching of wisdom of My Heavens flow into their heart, for it is completely filled with
all kinds of riches of self-esteem of their soul, while it can only be given where there is total poverty. Do you
and your brothers understand this?” (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 25 , chap. 76)
Good man – bad man. The nature of heaven and hell
“SAY I: “So pay attention, because it matters to Me that you go home seeing!
[2] Behold, two persons are living in a house. One is satisfied with everything that he with the sweat of his
brow draws from the soil with God’s blessing. Happy and serene, he enjoys the meager yield of his hard
work, and it is his greatest joy to share his laboriously gained supplies with his still poorer brothers. When
a hungry one comes to him, it gives him pleasure to feed him. He never asks him with a vexed heart about
the cause of his poverty and does not forbid him to return if he should be hungry again.
[3] He does not grumble at the order of earthly governments and when he has to pay taxes, he says always
as Job did: “Lord, You gave it to me, it is all Yours! What You have given, You can take away again at any
time. Your always alone holy will be done.”
[4] In short, nothing can disturb this man in his serenity as well as in his love and trust in God and there
from in his love for his earthly brothers. Anger, envy, strife, hate and pride are for him alien notions.
[5] His brother, however, is the most discontented person. He does not believe in a God and says: “God is an
empty concept by which people denote the top grade of earthly heroes. Only a very stupid man can be
happy in poverty just as the animals that have no reason or intelligence are happy as long as they are
barely provided with what their dumb and dull instinct demands. A man, however, who with his intellect
has raised himself high above the animal, can no longer be satisfied with the low fare of pigs, must not
burrow in the earth with his own hands destined for something better – which befits only animals and
slaves – but one must reach for the sword, strive to become a mighty general and enter through triumphal
arches the great cities of the world which one has conquered. The ground must tremble under the hoofs of
the charger which, decorated with gold and gems, proudly carries the mighty commander-in-chief of the
troops.
[6] A man with such a disposition then deplores his scanty existence, in his heart curses poverty and thinks
of ways and means how to acquire great treasures and riches in order to realize his tyrannical ideas with
their help.
[7] He has only contempt for his contented brother and loathes every even poorer man. He shows not even
a trace of mercy which he regards as a ridiculous attribute of cowardly slaves and society-apes. Only
generosity befits man – but that as rarely as possible. When a poor man comes to him, he lets fly abuse at
him and says: “Go away, you lazy beast, you greedy monster with the ragged mask of a man! Work, you
animal, if you want a feed! Go to that miserable brother of my body but never of my sublime spirit. He being
himself a common beast of burden works for the likes of him and is as merciful as a society-ape. I am just
generous and shall on this occasion still grant you your most miserable life.”
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9. [8] Behold, these two brothers, children of one father and one mother, live together in one house. The first
is an angel, the other almost a complete devil. To the first the scantiest hut is heaven, to the other the very
same hut the truest hell full of bitter torment. Do you now see how heaven and hell can be together in one
spot?
[9] But of course you will be thinking: ‘so what? Let the domineering one ascend the throne, and he shall be
quite capable of protecting peoples and vanquishing enemies!” O yes, this could be so indeed! But where is
the yardstick which shall prescribe to him the extent to which he can follow up his dictatorial plans? What
shall he do with people who will not bow down low to him? Behold, these he shall have tortured in the
most excruciating manner, and a human life will be to him no more than a trodden blade of grass! But what
is such a person? Behold, that is a Satan!
[10] There indeed have to be rulers as well as commanders, but understand this: they must be chosen and
called to it by God and in future be descendants of long-anointed kings. These are then called; but let all
those beware who would leave their poor hut hurrying to wrest the scepter to themselves by all sorts of
means! Verily, for such it would be better to have never been born!” (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 3,
chap. 51)
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“[8] Let everyone examine the inclinations of his heart, and he will easily discover what kind of spirit
prevails in his heart. If his inclinations draw the heart and its love towards the world and he feels within
him a longing to become great and respected in the world, if the heart that is inclined to become proud feels
discomfort with poor mankind and has the urge within to dominate others without having been chosen and
anointed for it by God, the seed of hell is already lying in the heart and, if not overcome and nipped in the
bud, will obviously prepare for such a person nothing but hell after the death of his body.
[9] However, if a man’s heart is full of humility and he feels happy to be the least among men, to serve all
and disregard his own self because of his love for his brothers and sisters; if he willingly obeys his
superiors in all things for the benefit of his brothers and love God above all, then in his heart the heavenly
seed grows to a true and eternally living heaven. And this man, who thus has already all heaven in
abundance in his heart, which is filled with true faith, the purest hope and love, can after the death of his
body not possibly get anywhere else but to the Kingdom of God which he has already carried in his heart in
all its abundance for a long time. – If you think this over you will easily comprehend what heaven and hell
are really all about.” (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 3, chap. 50)
About the evil-doers
"Just as a good man grows ever better, so an evil man will grow ever more evil and with this be in a
condition farther and farther away from what is good, which can be seen quite clearly even in this world.
Look at those people who are all the time growing more and more filled with arrogance and burning desire
for power. Having made many millions of people the most miserable of slaves through their tyranny, they
then gather even greater martial hordes, invade the territories of the other kings, conquer them and take
their land, people and treasures. And when they have thus conquered half a world and made it miserable,
they imagine themselves to be like unto God.” (The Great Gospel of John vol. 6, 33:10-11)
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"... yet a limit is set to evil, where it says: 'So far and no further!' For then a great judgement must always
follow, that the evil-doers shall have opportunity to reflect and perhaps the one or other take a better road
after all." (The Great Gospel of John vol. 6, 33:12)
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"A truly noble and good person is modest in his demands, whereas the wicked, lightless wordly person
never finds his demands satisfied." (The Great Gospel of John vol. 2, 201:7)
Speculation. Concerning speculators and usurers.
Spiritual Sun II chap. 92
The Lord narrates: “Finally, He [Jesus, in the Temple] uses a castigating weapon to unsparingly drive all
kinds of speculators out calling them murderers of the kingdom of God because they turned the Temple,
representing this godly kingdom, into a den of thieves [literally ‘den of murderers’, Translator].
[14] We could name several examples which show how the Lord is a strong enemy of this vice. But if one
only thinks reasonably this is quite clear. – While we are at it, we can briefly look at our ninth
commandment. There we see that there is no other human situation and no other forbidden occasion or
activity where the Lord has already restricted the desire, like this to Him displeasing extortionate occasion.
[15] At all occasions He only forbids the activity but here He chastises already the intention knowing that
the danger which develops from it for the spirit is too strong. You see this also due to the fact that every
other sinner feels remorse after committing a sin, whereas the rich speculator rejoices and crows about the
successful speculation! This is the perfect triumph of hell and the prince of hell therefore strives to fill men
primarily with all kind of love for the riches of the world knowing that people filled with this love are most
detestable before the Lord who will take the least pity with them.- No need to tell you more here.”
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19 July 1847.
Gifts of Heaven 3:47.07.19.
Jakob Lorber asks the Lord: “O Lord, You dear Holy Father! You have blessed us unworthy sinners this
year in a way, that according to reports from everywhere on earth nobody remembers having seen such a
blessed year like this of 1847. There is fruit in abundance, crops galore, the potato harvest looks fantastic
and the vineyards are loaded with grapes promising an abundant harvest. And the feed for the animals is
also assured. - In short this year was not lacking abundant blessing by You.
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11. [HiG.03:47.07.19] But look, o most holy and just God and Father! Despite this blessing of Yours we see a
new and dreadful creature of usury beginning to perform its hellish business. It buys this year’s grain
harvest for a high price in order to possibly lock in the high level and to sell last year’s stock for a truly
sinful price; second to make sure to have an artificial grain scarcity in the future and therefore to raise the
grain prices as high as possible! – O Lord! – Don’t you have no more thunderbolts and no plague for these
most genuine devils of usury?”
The Lord´s answer: “[01] Just write down My deserved word of rage for what I will do soon.
[02] See, My poor scribe, thunderbolts would here be of lesser use than a penny for buying a domain and
the plague would hit the innocent with the guilty. And in case I would curse the earth because of a few
products of hell the earth would in an instant look like at the times of Noah and of Lot!
[03] But I have resolved something quite special which I shall apply to all profiteers and other speculators;
I shall give them a reward where even Satan and all his angels will be highly amazed!!!
[04] Verily, verily, he who laughs now in his abundance and his riches while uncounted poor souls do not
know where to beg for a few pennies for their bread, he will soon cry before Me in a way the world has not
ever seen an example. I tell you, to all these speculators, usurers, house and real estate agents and captains
of industry as well as all great buyers, sellers and owners of land as well as all kinds of builders and big size
architects and bankers this will be unspeakably more dire than thunderbolts, plagues or war!!!
[05] I have already stuck the flaming torch of My just wrath into the earth. With a burning sea of My wrath I
will quench My old thirst of revenge! The brood of hell, this old bunch of vipers shall feel Who I am, the long
forgotten God! This brood which disdained and fully denied the Father and now does this day by day more
and more will have to put up with the eternal and all mighty judge; but as I said, in a way which no hell and
no world has ever dreamt!
But I will not tell you how and surely not when, so that I shall be able to break into the houses of those
evildoers of My grace and mercy like a most unsparing thief, robber and murderer in the middle of the
night.
[06] You see, by now for protection against thunderbolts excellent lightning rods have been invented, for
the plague isolation areas and effective medication and wars are fought now with the pen and with the
mouth in chambers; but there is no antidote on earth for My judgment but the prayer of those with whom I
deal the way I do with you, My poor scribe. You can be sure, henceforth I shall tell these when and for
whom they have to pray and under which conditions, so that nothing can prevent Me to let those evildoers -
if no improvement happens - taste the full weight of My judgment which I held back for so long.
[07] Be content with this. Because this time, similar to Jonah, you should not have predicted My judgment
in vain. Amen, amen, amen.“(Jakob Lorber - Speculators and Speculation 3172 3)
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12. Blessing and curse of riches
“[3] A great earthly wealth in the hands of such people (a group of Persian aristocrats) is a true blessing
from the heavens for a whole land; if such people also possess a higher wisdom, they can perform miracles
for the true good of humanity.
[4] But a great wealth in the hands of a greedy person or a usurer is a curse from hell for a whole kingdom;
for he seeks only to seize everything for himself at the cost of all people! No misery moves him, neither
affliction, nor the tears of poor, deserted widows and orphans. Thousands can be on the brink of starvation
before the cold face of a usurer, but he will nonetheless never give anyone a piece of bread to satiate him!
[5] Therefore I also tell you that the whores and adulterers and thieves and savage murderers will enter
the kingdom of God one day, but the soul of a greedy person and a usurer never; for it cannot be corrected
and therefore becomes the matter out of which the devils will build their deepest hell!
[6] A usurer is a true machine of hell, constructed for the ruin of all man, and as such it will remain for
eternity the full property of hell!
[7] Put a king’s crown on the head of a usurer, give him a scepter and sword and a powerful army in
addition, and there you have placed a Satan as tyrannical regent over the poor people who will not spare
his subordinates the last drop of blood! He will rather strangle everyone than let them out of paying a
single stater! Therefore let every greedy man and every usurer be cursed by Me!
[8] But such people who have become extremely rich through the industriousness of their hands under the
influence of mercy from heaven are a good and noble fruit of this Earth. They are constant collectors for the
weak and poor, they always build new houses for the homeless and weave clothes for the naked brothers
and sisters. Therefore their reward will be great; for they carry the most beautiful and highest heaven
already within themselves on this Earth!
[9] When their soul will one day leave their body, heaven will unfold from their hearts and place it in the
centre, just as the rising sun spreads out its own light and revels then in the great centre of the all-
animating and creating light emitted by it!
[10] But other good human souls will only be blessed like the planets which rejoice in the warming and
animating beams of the sun, but which still have a dark side however!
[11] Yes, My dear Cyrenius! To be rich on this Earth and only use as much for yourself as one really needs
for the maintenance of oneself, that is, to be sparse towards oneself, in order to be all
the more generous towards the poor, this, this is the greatest divinity even in the flesh on this Earth! But
the greater this genuine and only true divinity exists in a person, the more blessings and mercy constantly
flow to him from the heavens!
[12] It is just the same for such a person as for the sun! The more she lets her light flow out over the Earth,
the brighter she shines in herself; but if she become more sparing with her sharing of the light in winter,
even if only seemingly, then she is also in herself of a poorer and weaker light, even if only seemingly so!
[13] Whoever gives much with love and joy, to him will also be given much!
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13. [14] For if you place a strong light in the centre of a room, it will also shine back again from all the walls
towards the middle of the light and will seize the strong light with a powerful aureole, and thereby the
original light will become even more magnificent, powerful and effective; but if you only place a weakly
flickering lamp in the centre of a great room, the weakly-lit walls will only give back an extremely small
light, and the glory of the original light will look very poor!
[15] Therefore you, abundantly equipped with the goods of this Earth, be generous, just as the sun in the
sky is generous with its light, you will be the same and will reap just as the sun does!
[16] For you cannot sow a good seed in good earth without it bringing you a harvest a hundred times
greater. But good deeds of a good heart are truly the best seeds, and the poor humanity is
the best earth; never let it lie barren, but sow this earth lavishly and it will always bring you a hundred
times greater harvest here and a thousand times greater harvest in the beyond, for which I stand here as
firm warrantor!” (The Great Gospel of John Book 7, chap. 78)
The rich young man
“So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and
distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
(Luke 18:21-23)
And when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, He said, “How hard it is for those who have riches
to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a
rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Luke 18:24-25)
“[1] When we were a short hour‘s journey from the place where we had been, a young man from the very
same place came to us along the path. He had also been a witness the evening before of My deeds and
teaching and had been even a very competent scribe for his young age, but not by profession. When he saw
and recognized Me, he stopped Me and asked Me to allow him to ask Me a question.
[2] I did that and he spoke: “Good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life, of which
your disciples told so many wonderful and certainly very true things yesterday at the Greek innkeeper
Rauris, and achieve it on a shorter path than the one that your disciples described?”
[3] But I looked at him seriously and said to him: “Why are you calling Me, who as far as you know am only
a man, as a scribe yourself, good? Do you not know that apart from God no one is good? But if you want to
enter into eternal life, then keep the commandments!”
[4] Then the man asked further and said: “Then which commandments?” But he asked this question
because he thought that I had some very new and fully unknown commandments.
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14. [5] But I said to him: “Those which Moses gave: You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit
adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness! Honor you father and mother, and you shall
love your neighbor as yourself!”
[6] Then the young man asked: “But who should or can I see as my neighbor?”
[7] At this I told him the familiar comparison of the compassionate Samaritan, and he now understood who
was to be seen as his neighbor.
[8] But when he had heard such things from Me and also accepted them, he then said: “If it is so, then I give
you the fullest assurance that I have kept these things since my childhood! What am I still lacking?”
[9] And I answered him: “If you want to be complete, go and sell all your earthly possessions and give
to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me; become My disciple and
learn from Me the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven!
[10] But when the young man had heard such a thing from Me, he became grieved, because he had many
and great goods, turned his back to Me and went on his way.
[11] The disciples were surprised and they said: “But that is very strange! The man seemed to be very sure
that the spirit of God was speaking from You; but for the sake of the vain treasures of the world he
preferred to turn his back on the all-powerful spirit of God than to obey His command! Strange, extremely
strange! What will happen to such a person one day?”
[12] I said: “It is hard for a rich man like this to enter the Kingdom of Heaven! Pay attention to what else I
will say to you all! Truly, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man
to enter the Kingdom of God!”
[13] And when the disciples heard such a thing from Me, they were very astonished and said: “Oh dear – if
it is so, then who can enter the Kingdom of Heaven and be saved?!”
[14] But I looked at the very embarrassed disciples in friendship and gave them comfort by saying: “With
men such a thing would indeed be impossible; but with God all things are possible!
[15] But I have already spoken at length about this issue with the fisherman Aziona, how it is possible that
the souls of even more terrible people can become saved on God‘s secret path, and so it would be quite
superfluous here to say another word about it. You will still know something about it, I hope?” (The Great
Gospel of John Book 13, chap. 53)
Spendthrift
“[6] Naturally, this advice is meant chiefly for you, but later also for all your descendants. Also, if there is a
spendthrift among your servants, admonish him to exercise proper thrift. Deprive him of your favor for a
while and show him that a spendthrift is often very selfish and gradually becomes a burden to his brothers
instead of helping his poorer brothers with his just savings in times of poverty.
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15. [7] Whoever saves only for himself and, in a wider sense, for his own family, does not save according
to My order. I commend the one who saves so that he can help his poor brothers in times of poverty and
bless his savings so that he will never suffer want.
[8] I do not say that no one should save for his children and his household, for this is the first duty of
parents. But the poor who are strangers must not be forgotten, for I let My sun shine in the same measure
also on those who are not My children.
[9] Whoever does as I do, will be as I am and will one day also be where I shall be forever. And who is stingy
with his brothers, with him I shall also be stingy and very thrifty.
[10] From now on, do heed this precept in your household, and My blessing will never be taken from it. –
Now whoever still has a request, let him come forward and ask!” (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 12,
chap. 63)
The consequences of over-abundance
“[1] Says Cyrenius: “Lord, You surely are mankind’s Master, and at present the most living school of true
life, and now I know exactly where I stand, and what mankind is about. Only one thing I can’t quite follow,
why some nations, provided fairly above slavery level, could in the end still sink into lethargy! About this I
would still like to hear a word or two from Your mouth, oh Lord and Master!”
[2] Say I: “Oh friend, consult the history of this Earth’s peoples; behold the ancient, well-provided
Egyptians, look at Babylon and Nineveh, look at Sodom and Gomorrah! Look indeed at the people of Israel
in the desert, whom for forty years I had provided with Manna from the heavens! And look further on for a
great many advanced nations, and you shall soon find where good physical sufficiency got these people!
[3] Behold, a well-provided fashion-doll for instance in the end shall do no more than make up and adorn
herself all day long, and ultimately she shall become too lazy even for that, letting herself be washed, made
up and adorned by others. But that may not last too long either, and such spoilt dame in the end becomes
too lazy even for being attended to, thereby becoming quite like a swine, if not a virtual sloth, as they exist
in India and central Africa.
Question: what can still be done about such women? Of what spiritual education is same capable?
I say unto you: she is not suitable even for a whore! Such was indeed the case at Sodom and Gomorrah,
wherefore the people began to indulge in sodomy! Do you understand that?” (The Great Gospel of John
Book 5, chap. 55)
Rich or poor, important or humble, the human being determines his destiny
himself
[1] (The Lord:) “If one carefully looks at the life of man even under the most favorable conditions, one
easily recognizes that nothing is given for granted. From the king to the beggar, each one has to fight the
battle with the summer flies of life, which are full of stings, and which does not contain a lot to look forward
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16. to. During childhood man is plagued by weakness, as a man with all kinds of troubles and as an old man
with both, and the last hour of life nobody has viewed as the best time of his life.
[2] As such the earthly life creeps along mostly between thorns and thistles, and who doesn’t like it, will at
the end of the earthly flesh life not be able to talk a lot about pleasant and beatific things; and the more self-
loving someone was, the more insults he had to deal with. Who, however, as in the least self-loving, does
not make much of all the occurring summersting- flies of life and also of all the denigrating and offending
thorns and thistles, and to whom also all kinds of bodily suffering, poverty, often hunger and thirst, cold,
bad clothes and also a bad dwelling and alongside this still all kinds of other misery, have not made him
unsteady, will still be able to talk at the end of his life about some good times, while even a king despite all
the incense strewn for him, will at the end of his earthly life career complain about nothing else than all
kind of discontents over discontents.
[3] Since where does the king lives, who conducted everything successfully, what he intended to do at the
beginning of his reign?! Since this was impossible and he finally had to discover some rough calculation
errors at himself, he is totally unhappy, and it is an old, familiar fact, that kings mostly die as a result of
a secret inner disappointment.
[4] As such the self-determining and educating person stays throughout the time of his earthly life in his
completely determined consciousness of himself, in and under which he completed this earth’s life trial. If
in or outside My order, we want to regard in this case as all the same; since in every respect the earthly life
had little pleasantries for him, but instead all kind of bitterness to show for. Therefore also the great world
wise of the heathens, did not wanted to praise anyone on this world as fortunate, and praised only those as
fortunate, who returned to the lap of the earth.
[5] What would then the reward be for a soul for all the endured troubles, if she, after leaving her body,
would lose her consciousness as the indestructible primordial I, and either ceases to be or became divided
into thousand other I’s?! Would anyone of you be content with such an arrangement of My order? Surely no
one! Therefore it is My opinion, that it will still be better, to keep the old order and above all see to it, that
any nevertheless how bad soul, does forever not suffer any harm to her identity!
[6] That an I can and must only then become perfectly happy, when it, determining itself, has entered My
order, that you know by now perfectly well; since therefore I have preached to you for seven days
uninterruptedly and have guided you back to the primordial root of all creation of the spiritual and physical
world. However, that to the contrary a soul cannot enter permanent blessedness for as long she is not,
determining herself freely, returns to My order, I have shown to you manifold through words, deeds and
many examples and again explained them by words. How can thus any coldness, mercilessness, hardness
and injustice be in Me? Or can you, what is necessary for a person to be, call hardness in Me? Yes, with one
grain less patience and equally less lenience, I would be hard and unjust; but not at all like I am now!” (THE
GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 10, chap. 76)
Advices for a rich man
“[8] I said: “Be calm, what I do, I do without compensation! But you have poor people in your town; do good
to them and think that also the poor people are your earthly brothers! Do not be scanty towards them and
you thereby will clean and safeguard your area in the most full-proof manner from thieves and robbers!
Above all let it be said to you, that also these thieves are very poor victims and that it was not so much their
evil will, but only their poverty who drove them to commit this and also earlier pilferages.
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17. [9] If these people, who could be quite strong workers, could be employed by just and honest thinking
employers and receive a relevant remuneration, they would be pleased to give up their current
contemptible activity. But if this is not the case, they truly have no other option than to keep on doing what
they enforcedly are doing now.
[10] They cannot work a field, because they do not own a field; for all fields and all forests and mountains
belong to you and for many miles you let it lie fallow because you cannot work and cultivate it. Why don’t
you give to the poor pieces of land for useful cultivation?! Thereby also these people would have something
and on top of it, once the desolate fields and mountains are cultivated, could pay you a moderate tribute.
Say it yourselves if this would not be better than you few rich people finally want to own everything, what
can be of no use to you but only cause you a nearly unbelievable harm!
[11] I will not speak one word with these 24 thieves because they already have fallen too deeply into
thieving activity; but you have in your village and in your large and wide-stretched area still many similar
people. Do to them what I have advised you to do and you will soon not have to complain about pilferages
anymore!
[12] Place as many guards as you want and can and you will not achieve anything by it; for you will only
provoke the poverty to more rage and they will day and night make plans to cause you harm in the most
sensitive manner! However, if you follow My advice, the poor people themselves cared for by you, will
become your best guards.” (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 14, chap. 87)
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“ [4] I said: “Who remains in My teaching, remains also in Me, and I remain in him; who however leaves My
teaching according to deed, also leaves Me, and life is not in him. I am the true day of life. Who walks in this
day, will not stumble, and who works on that day, will harvest the true reward of life.
[5] For the time being you now know the most important issues; to learn all other things, you still will be
having sufficient opportunity. However, the knowledge alone does not provide a blessing, only actions!
[6] But actions exist twofold: actions for the world out of selfishness, and true actions in the world out of
true love for God and out of love for the neighbor. From the first action man yields the judgment and easily
everlasting death, but from the second action the love and mercy of God and the everlasting life of the soul.
[7] By that I do not say that someone should not work the earth with all diligence, and that he should not be
thrifty: since I Myself recommend to everyone all diligence and a justified thriftiness. But all this, one
should do to have a justified supply, to support at every opportunity the poor. Since what someone does to
the poor in My name, I will accept as if he did it to Me, and I will bless Him here and there; however, who
works and provides only for himself and his children, and is also not shy to collect unjust goods, should not
expect any blessing from Me, and he will not last in the beyond in front of My judge-chair, but will be
expelled to the dungeons of extreme darkness. There will be a lot of howling and crunching of teeth, and
such a soul will not that easily ever attain the full view of God.
[8] Who however, will cross over from his selfish thriftiness to full stinginess, is already here a devil
in human form, who always opposes the spirit of God, which is pure love, and therefore is forever
excluded from any bliss. For as certain as there is a heaven, there also exists a hell, whose worm never
dies, and whose fire never extinguishes. Who goes in there by his very own will, will never come out by
his very own will, and this is the true, everlasting death of the soul. Remember this well, and be careful not
to fall into selfishness, self-love, jealousy, stinginess and haughtiness of the world! Since all other sins a
person can get rid of more easily than those just named.
[9] Look now at our Lazarus, who is now one of the richest persons of the whole of Judea, but he is not rich
for himself, but for thousands of poor people, who always find work with him and a justified good
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18. accommodation; therefore he is blessed and even if he dies with regard to his body, I will still awaken him,
so that he can keep on living for the poor for a long time to come. And he shall not see, feel or taste death,
but he will have a free choice to leave his body and enter My kingdom which is always open to him. In the
dwelling where I reside forever, also he will reside forever!
[10] From this you can see that I am not only a friend of the poor, but also a friend of the rich, if they
use their riches according to the true and right intentions of God. Who is rich should act accordingly
and he shall live!”
[11] Said here Lazarus to Me in complete humbled love: “But Lord, You only Good, what have I done good,
that I, a poor sinner before You, am looked upon by You so mercifully!”
[12] I said: “I know how and what you do; therefore do not be surprised if I provide you with a justified
praise in front of many people!
[13] Another rich man who also wanted to follow Me, but still loved his riches a great deal, I said:
‘Sell all your goods, divide the yield among the poor, only then come and follow Me!’ Since however
this person loved his riches a lot, he became sad and went away.
[14] But to you I say: Buy even more goods; since what you call yours, this also belongs to the many
poor which consume most of your goods!
[15] To a rich person who loves his riches too much, for the sake of the riches itself and for the sake of
himself, I say, that a camel will more easily pass through the ear of a needle, than such rich person can one
day enter heaven!
[16] But there are also some poor, who come to the good hearted and ask him for alms; and once they have
received it, they waste it and on top of it are also extremely thankless towards there benefactor. However,
no benefactor should make anything of it; since the less thanks you will earn in this world, the greater your
reward in the beyond; since thereby such rich people show, that they resemble God, who also allows His
sun to rise and shine over good and bad.
[17] Yes, I tell you even more: Do good to your enemies, pray for them who curse you, and bless those
who hate and pursue you, and you will soonest gather glowing coals above their heads and turn
their evil souls in the quickest way to become better and nobler! Lend your excessive money to
those who cannot repay you with interest, and invite those as guests who cannot counter-invite you
as guests, and you will thereby gather great treasures for your souls in heaven!
[18] If you are a rich man and someone comes to you again, to whom you have done good works in the past
and who has misused your goodness, admonish him with good words; however do not keep the love from
him! If he betters himself you have done good to him twice; if he does not better himself, does not become
angry with him, since alongside physical poverty their also exists spiritual poverty, which is always greater
and more unfortunate than the physical.” (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 15, chap. 98)
Love for the world and matter and the fear of death
“Notwithstanding all his feelings of mortality, no human soul can be considered as completely dead, but
still, it is a real death of the soul if he lives in the constantly increasing fright to soon lose his life that
became so pleasant to him, or to grievously have to spend his life eternally in a dark dungeon, without hope
to ever be freed out of it.
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19. [2] But do you know what it is, that calls up such a feeling in the souls of the mostly material, selfish and
proud heathens, and why they then also pursue all kinds of possible pleasures and diversions, only to get
rid as much as possible of this feeling of mortality which displeases them above all?
[3] Look, the love for the world and matter brings this about. As long as a soul clings to the possessions
and riches of this world and considers them as his complete property by virtue of law, and therefore
punishes every person who in case of need because of his poverty would violate it or has violated it once,
he will not be able to completely ever get rid of this feeling, neither in this nor in the other world, for all
matter is judged and thus death regarding the free spirit. But if a soul clings to dead matter, he can
therefore also have no other feeling than only that of death.
[4] However, if a soul by the true and living faith in the one God and by the active love for Him and
fellowman will turn away from matter, then he soon will lose such a feeling completely, as this is now the
case with you. And this is then also for every person a sure and unmistakable sign that judgment and death
of the soul have gone.
[5] But this is really no easy task for a soul, once he is filled with love for the world. And there are many
rich and mighty people in the world for whom it is more difficult to separate themselves from
matter and its imagined value than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. But also this is
possible with the help of God, as this happens now to you Greeks and will still happen more and more if you
out of free will, will bring to action that which I have advised to you now.
[6] If you only believe, but do not bring faith to action, then faith itself is still dead and cannot give real life
to the soul, but by the action the faith becomes alive and therefore also the soul by his living faith.
Therefore I say to you once more: do not believe only that what you hear from Me, but act according to it,
willfully and zealously, then you will receive in yourselves true, eternal life.
[7] I surely can see now that all of you acknowledge Me as Lord and Master, but this will still not awake the
feeling of complete immortality in your souls. However, that which awakes the feeling of immortality in
your souls is the fact that you, in full earnest, have taken the resolution in your heart to do always that
which I have advised you.
[8] Now from now on, keep on acting – according to this resolution – also in My name, then eternal life from
Me will remain in you, and you will in eternity no more feel nor taste death.
[9] What use is it for man if he would possess all treasures of the Earth and with these he could
provide himself with all-imaginable kinds of pleasures but would by that harm his soul? Will all
these treasures be able to free him from the hard chains of death?
[10] Truly, death cannot give life to death. This can only be done by the living action according to My
teaching, for I Myself am continuously love, action and life. Because everything that is in infinity, is indeed a
work of My love and of My life. Do you believe that?” (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 20, chap. 31)
The trials of the heartless and wicked in the beyond
“[4] If you love God above all according to My teaching, and thus also love one another, as every person
loves himself and takes care of his own well being in all possible ways, you will never have to complain
among each other concerning some need, for the need and the poverty among the people on this Earth
exist simply and solely because of their mutual lack of love. And that is always the result of unbelief or
dark superstition. For he who does not belief in the one, eternal only true God, then how will he honor Him
and love Him above all, and from that love, his fellowman as himself?
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20. [5] The one who is largely provided with the treasures of the Earth, surely sees his poor fellowman, but
because he himself does not have to suffer any want, he says: ‘I am provided, what do I care about the
others. Let everyone take care of himself. Then he will not have to suffer any want.’
[6] But to such person I will say later: ‘Why did you so much more take care of you than for your fellowman
and have by that taken away from the others what is due to them from Me? Therefore, you will now in My
Kingdom be forsaken and you will have to endure great poverty and want.’
[7] And if he will excuse himself with the remark that he did not believe in Me because no one informed
him in the right manner about Me, I will say to him: ‘Then who informed you about a right according to
which you, because you are stronger, could take away the goods of the Earth from your fellowmen
who had the same right to possess what is necessary, and have piled them up for yourself? Did you
not have to act according to the correct understanding and the right that is proclaimed before everyone’s
eyes and ears by the arrangement of the Earth and its nature, since you clearly should have noticed that the
Earth with its goods are and should not only be for you alone but also for everyone else?
[8] Since you disregarded what your understanding should have stirred you up, therefore, here in My
Kingdom the need and poverty of your soul will also be disregarded.
[9] But if you say that you could not believe in an only true God because no one informed you in the right
manner, then I will say to you: ‘Now look what a terrible liar you are. Do you perhaps think that those who
are really filled with God’s Spirit and are enlightened, are, just like the worldly revelers like you,
overflowing in all the treasures and goods of this Earth? O, then you are terribly mistaken.
[10] They came to the door of your house as poor and needy people and wanted to inform you of the one,
only true God, but you did not want to let them come to you from greedy fear that you would have to give
them something in return, or that finally you would have given them voluntarily if you possibly were
converted by them to the unshakable faith in the one, only true God.
[11] But to prevent feeling obliged to give them something after a possible conversion, you did not want to
be converted at all, and because of your greediness you did not want to receive a true message about the
one, only true God by means of a person that was enlightened by God.
[12] Now if this is so and not otherwise, then how can you find excuses in front of Me by saying that you
were not able to heed your poor fellowman because in your lack of information about God you did not
notice any obligation to them. In this manner you have, by your greediness, in the first case trampled on the
right of nature, to which even all the better gentiles are conforming themselves, but in the second case, in
which you make excuses before Me, you are a liar. So here you will receive the reward of greediness and
that of a liar. And from now on, my chosen ones will just as little think about you as you have thought about
an only true God in the material world, and as you have loved Him above all, as well as your fellowmen.’
[13] The seed for the true knowledge of God and the living faith in Him is in the first place the love for
fellowman, and in that, also the pure love for God.
[14] However, if someone is already so heartless that he cannot even lovingly help his poor fellowman
whom he can see, then how will he, in the hard blindness of his soul, be able to love God whom he
impossibly can and want to see and be aware of?
[15] Look, in this way no unrepentant sinner can excuse himself later before Me, since it has been given
from Me to everyone to come to know the truth and its goodness – for the gentile by the knowledge of the
obvious things and circumstances in the great kingdom of nature, and for the Jew by way of extraordinary
revelations.
[16] Therefore, I say to you once more: when you ask the Father in Me for something in My name, then ask
Him most of all for the imperishable treasures of the Kingdom of God. Then you will receive them, and
together with that, also what you need to live on this Earth.
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21. [17] Let him, who received much earthly goods, manage them according to the will of the love of the Father.
Then, being a loyal manager over small things, he will be appointed over great things in My Kingdom.” (THE
GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 22, chap 78)
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“So always gather treasures which cannot be eaten away by the moths and cannot be destroyed by rust and
decay.
[2] Beware of the goods and treasures of this world, for in these rests the evil spirit of temptation to all sins.
[3] If you pray to God and say in your heart: ‘Father in Heaven, lead us not into temptation,’ then say, think
and wish that He would not provide you abundantly with earthly goods and treasures, but ask Him only for
the daily bread. Then He will not withhold it from you since He knows best what you need.
[4] If you love God above all according to My teaching, and thus also love one another, as every person loves
himself and takes care of his own well being in all possible ways, you will never have to complain among
each other concerning some need, for the need and the poverty among the people on this Earth exist simply
and solely because of their mutual lack of love. And that is always the result of unbelief or dark
superstition. For he who does not belief in the one, eternal only true God, then how will he honor Him and
love Him above all, and from that love, his fellowman as himself?
[5] The one who is largely provided with the treasures of the Earth, surely sees his poor fellowman, but
because he himself does not have to suffer any want, he says: ‘I am provided, what do I care about the
others. Let everyone take care of himself. Then he will not have to suffer any want.’
[6] But to such person I will say later: ‘Why did you so much more take care of you than for your fellowman
and have by that taken away from the others what is due to them from Me? Therefore, you will now in My
Kingdom be forsaken and you will have to endure great poverty and want.’
[7] And if he will excuse himself with the remark that he did not believe in Me because no one informed
him in the right manner about Me, I will say to him: ‘Then who informed you about a right according to
which you, because you are stronger, could take away the goods of the Earth from your fellowmen who had
the same right to possess what is necessary, and have piled them up for yourself? Did you not have to act
according to the correct understanding and the right that is proclaimed before everyone’s eyes and ears by
the arrangement of the Earth and its nature, since you clearly should have noticed that the Earth with its
goods are and should not only be for you alone but also for everyone else?
[8] Since you disregarded what your understanding should have stirred you up, therefore, here in My
Kingdom the need and poverty of your soul will also be disregarded.
[9] But if you say that you could not believe in an only true God because no one informed you in the right
manner, then I will say to you: ‘Now look what a terrible liar you are. Do you perhaps think that those who
are really filled with God’s Spirit and are enlightened, are, just like the worldly revelers like you,
overflowing in all the treasures and goods of this Earth? O, then you are terribly mistaken.
[10] They came to the door of your house as poor and needy people and wanted to inform you of the one,
only true God, but you did not want to let them come to you from greedy fear that you would have to give
them something in return, or that finally you would have given them voluntarily if you possibly were
converted by them to the unshakable faith in the one, only true God.
[11] But to prevent feeling obliged to give them something after a possible conversion, you did not want to
be converted at all, and because of your greediness you did not want to receive a true message about the
one, only true God by means of a person that was enlightened by God.
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22. [12] Now if this is so and not otherwise, then how can you find excuses in front of Me by saying that you
were not able to heed your poor fellowman because in your lack of information about God you did not
notice any obligation to them. In this manner you have, by your greediness, in the first case trampled on the
right of nature, to which even all the better gentiles are conforming themselves, but in the second case, in
which you make excuses before Me, you are a liar. So here you will receive the reward of greediness and
that of a liar. And from now on, my chosen ones will just as little think about you as you have thought about
an only true God in the material world, and as you have loved Him above all, as well as your fellowmen.’
[13] The seed for the true knowledge of God and the living faith in Him is in the first place the love for
fellowman, and in that, also the pure love for God.
[14] However, if someone is already so heartless that he cannot even lovingly help his poor fellowman
whom he can see, then how will he, in the hard blindness of his soul, be able to love God whom he
impossibly can and want to see and be aware of?
[15] Look, in this way no unrepentant sinner can excuse himself later before Me, since it has been given
from Me to everyone to come to know the truth and its goodness - for the gentile by the knowledge of the
obvious things and circumstances in the great kingdom of nature, and for the Jew by way of extraordinary
revelations.
[16] Therefore, I say to you once more: when you ask the Father in Me for something in My name, then ask
Him most of all for the imperishable treasures of the Kingdom of God. Then you will receive them, and
together with that, also what you need to live on this Earth.
[17] Let him, who received much earthly goods, manage them according to the will of the love of the Father.
Then, being a loyal manager over small things, he will be appointed over great things in My Kingdom.”
(The Great Gospel of John vol. Vol. 9, 210:4)
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“[12] I said: “Yes, My friend, you have now seen a little yourself how difficult it is to better a completely
depraved soul in the beyond in such a way that he may come to some insight and realization of how wicked
he is and that he can as such never be free and happy.
[13] Once a soul understands this, he will turn away from his old wickedness, will begin to despise and
abhor himself and will try to become better within. Even if now and then he still relapses into a former sin,
he does not abide with it but regrets it and has no desire to commit it again. Thus, gradually, his evil
passions will decrease and cool off, and then it becomes lighter in such a soul.
[14] And because the white spirits of peace that you saw, are first helping to improve that wicked soul, such
a spirit who has improved his life will first go over to these spirits to practice there patience, good order
and peace.
[15] If therein he has gained some stability, he can pass into an even better state which, however, he should
not look upon it as a reward for his improvement, but only as a natural result of his inner order. For, if a
soul who has – unnoticed – been bettered in this way, realizes that his better state has been given by Me as
a reward for his efforts, which is truthfully the case, his former selfishness would soon again awaken within
him. Therefore, he would strive even more to become better and lighter but only in order to receive soon a
greater reward but not to become purer and better for the sake of what is good.
[16] For these easy to understand reasons true improvement of a depraved soul progresses only very
slowly in the beyond. For in order that a soul can continue to exist, My omnipotence must affect him only
insofar as he is placed in conditions of life that must appear to him as a necessary consequence of his evil
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23. actions. And only in this way is it possible to truly and actively better such a soul in and from himself.
Whether that happens earlier or later is ultimately the same to Me. And also regarding eternity wherein all
past and future times are completely made equal. Just as it is the same to Me whether man has lived on this
Earth many thousands of years earlier or later, for in eternity the first man of this Earth will have no
advantage over the one who was born into this world as the last one.
[17] Yet, it is for the soul himself inexpressible much better if his perfection of life is attained as soon as
possible. In the first place because such a soul has obviously less to suffer and secondly a more zealous soul
will necessarily have a considerable advantage over a lazy soul who lags behind. Just as here on Earth a
walker who eagerly sets out on his journey many a day earlier than someone who is slow and lazy and
takes a long time before he decides to start the walk. While the zealous one can already fully enjoy the great
advantages of his diligence and zeal, the lazy one has only hardly made the first step on the long road ahead
of him, and besides that, he continued to look back and was considering if ever he should make the second
step or maybe still stay at home for some more time. Yes, if such a slow spirit who undertakes nothing, lives
in poverty for a long time, being in want and languishing while his zealous fellowman hurried ahead of him
and received important goods, then the lazy person will certainly have no enviable advantage compared to
the zealous one. On the contrary, for once a person runs ahead, he will be ahead forever, and those who are
limping behind will not be able to catch him.
[18] This makes for Myself of course no difference, for I am and remain the One I have been from eternity.
However, for the spirits there will be endlessly great differences in the degree of their happiness. Do
you understand this My friend?” (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 17 , chap. 38)
The destiny of a rich and proud general in the beyond
“Look, we are at present in a princely, luxurious chamber. Here, everything is full of gold and silver and of
the most precious gems and – for the world – of the most precious paintings. The floor of the chamber is
laid with the finest rugs and the great plate glass windows are hung with curtains, the cost of which would
feed a thousand poor for a whole month. Cupboards, tables, sofas, chairs and a great many more princely
furnishings of great value adorn the chamber, which is permeated by all sorts of aromatic scents, and the
most renowned physicians are surrounding the bed, richly embossed with gold, in which the worldly
prominent patient is waiting in vain for his recovery. [...]
Look, following this explosion on the part of the supreme commander, the monks make off at once. The
physicians keep shrugging their shoulders more and more, the patient falls silent and amid the most horrid
distortions of the face the death-rattle sets in. However, being unable to observe more in the patient, we
proceed at once to the spirit world and shall make our brief observations as to how our hero will enter into
the spirit world.
You see, we are already there, and there on the same bed lies the patient in an identically looking room. He
is still gasping, as you can easily see, drawing air painfully and biting his tongue in the silent rage of his
angry soul.
But there, you see, is already the sole death angel in readiness to liberate the enraged soul of our hero from
its excessively proud and arrogant aristocratic flesh. The angel is armed with a flaming sword – as a sign of
his great power lent him by Me and as a sign of his courage and his total lack of fear before such great
heroes of the earth, as well as before the whole hell.
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24. You see, now the last grain of sand in the urn of time has fallen for this hero, and the angel touches him with
his flaming sword and speaks: “Rise, you feeble Soul, and you, proud dust, fall back into the ocean of your
bottomless nothingness!”
Look, now the body disappears and the bed and the chamber full of earthly splendor are no longer visible.
Instead, as you can easily see, a very dark ashen-gray, decrepit-looking soul rises, standing on loose sand,
which threatens to swallow it. It looks around, angry, distraught and shy. However, it sees itself in a
different way from how we see it – it sees itself still as a general decorated with all his medals and with a
sword.
“Were am I?” the hero now says, “Which devil has taken me here? Nothing, and again nothing. Wherever I
turn my eyes, there is nothing. Look down there, also below me there is nothing!
Am I a sleepwalker – or dreaming – or should I actually have died? Oh, this is truly an accursed, silly state!
To be sure, I am quite well now and feel no pain, remember every little detail in my life. I was extremely
sick. I have scrutinized the silly doctors, have sent the two hypocrites to the devil and have also, of course,
owing to the strong, unbearable pain, said some rude things to the Creator; all this I very well remember! I
also know that I was very angry and ready to tear everything apart in my rage. But now all this is past. It
would be all right, if only I knew where I really am and what has gone on with me?!”
There is a little light around me, but the farther out I direct my gaze, the darker it becomes, and I see
nothing, nothing, nothing, and again nothing! This is really accursed! Truly, he who does not go to the devil
under these circumstances, win not do so in eternity!
Strange, strange, I keep becoming more wide-awake, more alive, but at the same time it keeps getting
emptier around me. I must surely be in a sort of lethargy? However, those who are afflicted with it, are said
to hear and see everything happening around them – but I hear and see nothing except myself; so this can
be no lethargy.
It is here neither cold nor warm, nor totally dark, although the light is truly not blinding. What I find
incomprehensible is that I am in this solo state very merry and in high spirits, so that I could be a clown;
and yet, I have as Figura shows, surely not been more solitary in the womb than here. Truly, if I had here
such a little thing, eh, such a thing - well, such a thing – yes, yes, all right – if I had such a harlot with me, I
could even forget myself, that I – confound it, the general together with his five dozen ancestors! Truly, I
would give anything for the most common harlot!
If only I could find out where I really am? If this state of affairs should last much longer, this condition could
become damned boring! Have once heard something of a God, want to earnestly turn to Him. Have earlier
behaved somewhat rudely towards Him. But, if He exists, He will not hold it against me. Hallo, my God, my
Lord! If you exist, help me out of this queer, unfortunate situation!”
You see, at once an angel comes along and speaks: “Friend, you will remain in this situation until the last
drop of your pride has been drained out of you, whereby the last drop of blood will be paid of the blood of
many thousands of your brothers shed by you. Throw away all your insignia as a general, and you will find
more ground and more light and also company – but beware of your own kind, or you will be lost! Above
all, turn to the Lord, and your path will be short and easy. Amen.”
You see, at this stage our hero is not prepared to follow this advice. Therefore, the angel leaves him; he will
be kept in suspension for several hundred years more.
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25. From this you can draw your conclusions as to his “WATER”, and so nothing further of him.” (Beyond the
threshold – Scene 6 – A general)
The destiny of a pope in the beyond
“In this instance we will begin at once with the beyond. We will observe a man, who had been playing a
very great role, being finally of the opinion that the world existed only for his sake and that he could do as
he liked. For he arrogated the actual stewardship of God, and that more than many another of his like.
Notwithstanding all this, he had to “bite the dust”, and neither his presumed great power nor the world or
the stewardship of God protected him against it.
Look over there, straight towards midnight, a very lean male figure of a very dark color is walking along
slowly, looking around searchingly in all directions.
In his company you see a little man, like a pitch-dark monkey, who busies himself around our man and is
acting as if he had some very important business with this man. Let us step closer, so that you may hear the
strange monologue of this man, who is oblivious of both his company or us.
We are already close to him. Now listen, he says: “Everything a lie, everything deceit, and the deceived is
the most fortunate; but unfortunate the deceiver, if he is knowingly a deceiver! However, if he is
unknowingly a deceiver, lying and deceiving without realizing it, he can be congratulated. For in that case
one donkey pulls another, and both are contented with the worst fodder. But I, what am I? I was a supreme
head, all had to believe and do what I ordered. However, I did what I wanted, for I had the keys to power in
my hands, like one who takes it without asking whether he is entitled to take it. I knew everything; I knew
that everything is only a lie and deceit, but despite this fact I imposed falsehood and deceit under threat of
punishment on everyone refusing to accept them and believing that everything issuing from me, written or
not, has to be accepted as the full truth.
On the earth I thought: Physical death is the end of all existence. This was my secret, firm belief, and all the
wisdom of the world could not have given me a different one! This alone I held to be the truth, and you see,
also this is a falsehood; for I continue to live, although I have died in the body.
Heaven, purgatory and hell I had preached on many thousands of pulpits, issued letters of indulgence and
canonized a great many deceased and ordered fasting, prayer, confession and Communion – and now I
myself stand here, not knowing what is what! If there were a Judgment, I would be judged already. If there
were a heaven, I should have the first right to it, for in the first place I had to become steward of Christ’s
Church through the will of God. And what I then did as such was certainly also only a supreme will, for
according to Scripture no hair of the head will be bent and no sparrow fly from the roof.
Thus I confessed and attended Communion according to the old rules, although I could easily have
exempted myself. For I had the power to abolish confession, including the strict Communion for everyone,
for all times, which, however, I could not and would not do for political reasons. Should there be a hell, I
would have reason enough to be in it, for in God’s eyes every human being is a killer! At least I ought to be
in purgatory, for this is said to be everybody’s lot for at least three days! But neither the one nor the other
is my lot, therefore God, Christ, Mary, heaven, purgatory and hell are nothing but falsehood and deceit! Man
lives only from the forces of nature and thinks and feels only according to the concentration of his inherent
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26. natural forces, which probably combine there to an eternally indestructible One. Therefore, it will now be
my task to investigate these forces more closely and then, owing to my precise acquaintance with them, to
found a heaven.
However, I notice a continual certain tugging at my toga pontificalis! What could that be, should there still
be an invisible spirit in my vicinity, or is it done by some wind? In earnest, it is queer in this infinite desert,
for no matter where one goes, one still remains forever completely alone. One can call, cry, call abuse, scold
and curse – or pray to whom one wants, and yet nothing stirs and one remains all alone as before! It may
well be several years since I died on the earth, and this in a very painful, utterly disagreeable manner, and I
am just as alone, nothing beneath my feet but whole barren desert! I certainly have room to move, this
again is a truth, but where I am, what shall become of me in the future shall I continue to live forever or still
be totally annihilated in the future this is an insolvable riddle.
So get on with the investigation of the natural forces inherent in me, and through their closer acquaintance
it shall soon become evident what shall become of me!”
Have you heard him, how he reasons, he, THE STEWARD OF GOD ON EARTH? Oh, he will continue for a
long time to reason thus solo, as his invisible companion inspires him. For the lot of such people, who were
on earth in the highest positions, is always the same, namely, being alone, inasmuch as they have
excessively isolated themselves on earth.
However, this isolation turns out to be a great grace for them; for only in that way is it possible to then turn
back onto the right path. But this takes a long time. They have to go through all degrees of night and
darkness within, of distress, also of pain, as it is peculiar to hell.
Once such a zealot has absolved this solo journey – perhaps in five hundred to a thousand, also ten
thousand years, he comes only then into the company of strict spirits. If he fails to follow them, he is again
left alone and to his own devices. But then all the abominable deeds, carried out either under him or under
his predecessors, will be brought home to him, at which occasion, however, he will have to taste all the
pains, which all the persecuted had to taste under him or his predecessors. If this treatment fails to cure
him, he is left as he is; as companions only hunger and thirst are given him, which two stewards with rare
exceptions bring almost every one gradually onto the right road.
Here again you have a picture, from which you may learn more about the beyond – and the “WATER”,
which such a leader has to swim through, until he reaches the shore of humility, truth and love. Therefore,
nothing more of this man. ” (Beyond the Threshold – Scene 7 – A pope)
The destiny of a minister in the beyond
“Since also the great lords of the world have to die, against which utterly disagreeable peculiarity of their
lives they have still not been able to establish an insurance company, having failed to achieve it despite all
their politicking and diplomacy, also our minister had to finally make up his mind to exchange the temporal
with the eternal.
For such people dying is the most unpleasant event in the world, but it is of little concern to the angel of
death. With whomsoever he finds the well-calibrated measure full, him he takes without grace and pardon.
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27. Our minister, a man revered by all the world on account of his worldly intellect, was in his later years
thrown onto his sickbed by a catarrhal fever with gout, which tormented him for half a month, and that the
more, the more medicines he took in order to remedy this evil. Towards the end he became angry and
threatened the physicians with arrest, unless they would or could restore him to health soon.
However, instead of carrying out his threat, he sank on the sixteenth day of his illness into a coma from
which he did not awaken in this world, except one hour shortly before his death. In this hour he made a
brief last will as to what should be done with his considerable property, whereby the poor, as usual with
such people, were only considered in a beggarly mariner, for what are a few thousand guilders compared to
several millions bequeathed?
Thus also the Church was favored pro forma with a bequest, however, not out of some blind faith – for such
a person has seldom any faith or none at all and all he ever does is pure politics – but only, as
aforementioned, because policy demands it.
Having made this last will, he sank back on his bed and was dead, without taking confession and
Communion, of which act he anyway – as far as he was concerned – did not think much. This meant for him
the end forever for this world; and so we will not stay any longer with his corpse, but will at once proceed
to the “beyond” to find out how our very proud and aristocratic man behaves there.
You see, we are already there, and our man is standing in his complete official robe before us and four
veiled angel spirits, where he only sees the latter. The locality is represented by his very state cabinet,
where he had intended to attend to some important business.
Now he sees the four clearly in his secret cabinet and can hardly contain his anger over the extreme
audacity of these four “rascals”, as he thinks. Jumping up and reaching for the bell he tries to ring it, but the
bell gives no sound.
“Treason! High treason!” He shouts as loudly as he can. “How did you I miserable scoundrels manage to
enter this cabinet, which is accessible only to me and where the most secret and holy mysteria of the state
are worked at and kept? Do you know that such high treason is punishable by death? Which of you has
tampered with this bell that now, in this decisive moment, it cannot utter a sound?
Confess, you villains, which of you was the ringleader?”
The first angel speaks: “Listen patiently and attentively to what I shall now tell you! I am well acquainted
with the wise rule according to which no man on earth, except the king, can enter this cabinet. If you were
still on earth, you would not have beheld us in this spot. But you see, you have now died in your physical
body and are now in the spirit world, where there is only one Lord, whereas all other spirits are brothers,
good and bad ones, depending on how they have acted on the earth, in a good or evil manner. Thus we have
been given the loving right and duty by the Lord to visit everyone offering him our services, provided he is
still, like you, accessible to us.
The commission to you through us of the one Lord is therefore, to inform and reveal to you that here in this
eternal world all worldly honor and status, including all politics have ceased to exist; and this cabinet, your
robe and all your presumed important state documents are only a deception and have sprung from your
fantasy, which is still clinging excessively to the world and will disappear as soon as you will follow us. If
you follow us, you will have an easy path to the true, eternal realm of life, where there is immeasurable,
uncountable bliss; if, however, you refuse to follow us, you will find it extremely difficult to attain to the
living Kingdom of God. For you see, with God’s permission you were a great man in the world and had great
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28. power. However, through this power the lust for power has awakened mightily in you and this has led you
into many a thing not grounded in the divine order. Besides, this worldly power, as lust for power, has also
robbed you in many cases of the love for your neighbor and has rendered you totally unsuitable for the
Kingdom of God. But you see, the Lord knows what a heavy burden you had to carry and is feeling great
pity for you. So He sent us to you, so that you might be saved and lifted up and not perish under your great
worldly burden, which you brought along. Do not think here about a judgment; for in the realm of the
freedom of spirit there is no judgment and no judge, except the innate free will of every human being! Do
not think of hell either. It is nowhere, except in every person, if that person creates it within himself
through his own evil. At the same time, do not think of a heaven as the promised reward for good works.
Let the Word of the Lord Jesus be your will, seek Him alone through it! Once you have Him, you have all the
heavens and a totally different might out of love than you used to have in the world on account of your
worldly cleverness and high position. Now you know everything; do what your free will allows you in the
name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.”
The minister says: “Truly, your speech is wise and is my token that everything is as you say. It is now also
completely clear to me that I have died physically. But I cannot grasp that the certain Jew Jesus should be
the sole God and Lord! What then is the “Father” and the “Holy Spirit”? You see, this is not in agreement
with the teaching of Jesus, Who was the first to teach everywhere a divine trinity! Therefore, forgive me if I
cannot follow you as fast as you desire, unless you quickly convince me of it!”
Says the angel: “Brother, this does not happen as fast as you think. First of all, discard your state robe and
put on another one of humility and complete self-denial, and you will soon become fully convinced of that
which until now appears inconceivable to you.”
The minister replies: “Well then, so take me and show me the right way and carefully scrape everything
worldly off my soul, and we will see where you stand with your statement.”
Now the other three angels step up, divest the man of the state robe, replacing it with ashen-gray, dirty
rags. And the second angel now speaks to him: “Now you are dressed in the dress of humility. But this alone
is insufficient, for you must be humble in fact. And so follow us!”
The man follows and look, they arrive at a farm and tell him: “You see, here lives a harsh man who owns
great herds of swine. You shall serve him and be contented with anything he will offer you; and if he is
harsh and unjust towards you, you shall bear everything with patience and shall only get satisfaction in the
Lord’s grace and mercy.”
“If he strikes you, do not strike back; offer him your back, like a slave, as you have often seen – for the sake
of military subordination – a poor soldier lie down against his will on the bench and endure the harsh, often
utterly unjust punishment. If you will bear all this with the right patience, a better lot will be your share.”
Thereupon says the man: “Many thanks for this guidance! Just give me back my state robe, you imposters, I
shall certainly find my own way! Look at the rascals! Out of one like me, who counts at least twenty
ancestors, they want to make a swineherd without ado! Oh, if only I were still in the world, I would pay you
for this so that you would remember! These vagabonds even pose as God’s messengers! No, just wait, being
messengers of God will cost you dearly!”
You see, the angels return his state robe to him and say: “As you like. There is your earthly garment! If you
refuse to walk the roads of life, walk your own; our service with you is finished.” (Beyond the Threshold –
Scene 8 – A minister)
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29. God's mercy
"I tell you: Truly, one look full of remorse towards the good Father is sufficient to escape hell. Behold
the thief on the cross! He was a robber and a murderer, yet he looked up to the Lord and said in the painful
contrition of his heart: 'O Lord, when You come into Your Kingdom judging us great malefactors, do
remember me and do not punish me too hard for my great crimes!' - And lo and behold, the almighty
Judge said to him: 'Verily, today you shall be with Me in paradise!'" ("The Spiritual Sun" II, chap.117,
through Jakob Lorber; comp. also "The Great Gospel of John" vol. 4, 53:1 on; vol. 10, 125:6; vol. 7, chap. 218
on. through Jakob Lorber)
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“Whoever recognizes his sin and actually despises it, loves God above all and his fellowman as himself, is
no longer a sinner before Me. But loving God above all means keeping His commandments and not wanting
to live outside of God’s order.” (The Great Gospel of John vol. 3, 218:4)
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