Jakob Lorber
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first." (1 Thessalonians 4:16)
"But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."
(Revelation 10:7)
“And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” (Rev:21:6)
"And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. I Jesus have sent
mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come.
And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." (Rev 22:1, 16-17)
"But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."
(Revelation 10:7)
“And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” (Rev:21:6)
"And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. I Jesus have sent
mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come.
And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." (Rev 22:1, 16-17)
Jakob Lorber was born on 22 July 1800, in a small place called Kanischa, near the lower Styrian country town Marburg, today´s Maribor in Slovenia. He attended teacher's college and primary school course, after which he didn 't immediately receive an appropriate position. This prompted him to intensively continue his musical studies, which consisted of composing, teaching the violin, providing singing and violin lessons, composing and occasionally giving a concert. During these years, Jakob Lorber followed with great enthusiasm his spiritual inclination, diligently studying the Bible as well as the works of men who followed the "inward path", among others such mystics as Justinus Kerner, Jung-Stilling, Swedenborg, Jakob Böhme, and Johann Tennhardt.
Unexpectedly, at the beginning of 1840,the theatre in Triest offered him a position as second orchestra conductor. But on the morning of 15 March 1840, he experienced something, which gave his life a different direction. He clearly heard a Voice in his heart which ordered him to: "Get up, take your pen and write!" He abandoned all travel preparations and obediently sat down and wrote on paper what the mysterious voice dictated. It was the introduction to his first work, The Household of God (Die Haushaltung Gottes): "And thus the good Lord speaks for everyone; and that is true, faithful, and certain. Whosoever wishes to speak to Me, should come to Me and I will place the answer into his heart. But only the Pure, whose hearts are full of humility, will hear the sound of My Voice. And whosoever prefers Me to every thing and the world, and loves Me like a bride loves her groom, with such a human being I will walk arm in arm. Such a person will for all times look upon Me as one Brother would look upon another, as I have looked upon him from eternity before he existed." Afterwards, when he had written down what he had heard, it became clear to him that an unusual mission from the spiritual world had been assigned to him, the fulfillment of which was incompatible with his duties in the theatre in Triest. The Inner Voice spoke freely with authority as the voice of JESUS CHRIST . Lorber, therefore, declined the favorable offer, upon which he had placed great hopes. |
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From that day, he dedicated his life to writing down all the information he received. Leaving his profession as violinist and conductor, he lived in poverty, earning his living only from piano lessons.
For the next 24 years, his full remaining lifetime, he obeyed with unshakable faith to his calling as a humble 'God's Scribe'. His biographer, the poet and Secretary to the Estates
Karl Gottfried von Leitner claimed that "Lorber wrote almost daily, beginning in the morning before breakfast. Completely withdrawn, he wrote at an average speed without pausing to think or correcting what he had written, uninterruptedly like someone who was taking a dictation. He often mentioned that while listening to the uttering voice he also saw visions of what he heard. It was even easier for him to record what he heard within when he could dictate it to another person. Actually, he dictated entire works to some of his friends, sitting next to the writer, quietly gazing ahead, never faltering in the flow of words or changing the structure of a sentence, or even a single expression."
Lorber was also observed while writing by other notable men in the city of Graz, such as Dr. Justinus Kerner, Dr. Ch. F. Zimpel, the mayor of Graz, Anton Hüttenbrenner, his brother the composer Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Dr. Anton Kammerhuber, Leopold Cantily, pharmacist of Graz. Lorber wrote for many hours almost daily, rarely interrupted his work, without consulting any books of reference, and without any manifold knowledge, obediently recording what the voice in his heart dictated to him. As his manuscripts prove it, he didn´t correct even a single line. In a letter to a friend, Lorber confesses: "Dearly beloved friend and brother! Concerning the Inner Word and how this is heard I can only say that I always hear the Lord´s most holy Word in the region of the heart lke a clear thought, light and pure, like spoken words. No one, though he may be quite close to me, can hear anything at all of a voice. But to me this voice of grace sounds clearer than even the loudest material sound."
24 years after he first received his mission as God's scribe, on the 24th of August 1864, Jakob Lorber died at home, surrounded by some of his closest friends. He foresaw his own death. On his tombstone at the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz, Paul's words are written: "Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." (see also Who might really be Jakob Lorber... and THE STRONG LINK BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE NEW REVELATION - The Two Witnesses)
At the later publication, after his death, there were 10,000 pages, which were comprised in 25 volumes, a unique, immense work, not to mention many shorter writings. The Great Gospel of John (comprising 11 books in the original German variant, last one written after Lorber´s death, through inner word, by a friend, Leopold Engel )* is about 2,000 pages very detailed first-person narrative of Jesus Christ's last three years of His Life on Earth, fully confirming the Christian values and the Gospels of John and Matthew. Herein there are details of His travels throughout the holy land, of the miracles, healings and, most important, teachings He performed, majority of which were never before revealed to humanity.
Lorber's first complete work, The Household of God, is a spiritual account of the Old Testament up to the times of Noah. He also wrote many works regarding life in the beyond, life on other planets and stars, the structure of our Earth, Moon and solar system as well as the new medicine of the future - Heliotherapy (see the list of Lorber´s works).
Considering their enormous complexity and their consistency with the Old and New Testament, but also with actual technological and scientific facts (see Examples of predictions and prophecies and Kurt Eggelstein's The Prophet Jakob Lorber predicts coming catastrophes and the true Christianity) the Great Gospel of John, but also the other writings of Jakob Lorber give an unbeatable testimony for their divine origin. More, Lorber himself claimed to be unable to understand many of the things he was told by the inner voice. The teachings deal with all the basic themes of human and universal existence: the nature of God and His identity with Jesus Christ, the Fall of Lucifer, the creation of universe and man, the purpose of human and universal existence, the principles for a healthy life of the soul and of the body, etc - see About the New Revelation.
see also The Kindom of God, poem by Jakob Lorber
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*) After Lorber, Gottfried Mayerhofer in turn received additional dictation and finally, Leopold Engel ( for the last eleventh booh of the Great Gospel of John)
for further reference, please see also the following:
Preface of "The Three-Days-Scene at the Temple in Jerusalem" (Beitigheim, 1932)
"In all ages there have been pure God-endowed men who have heard the Voice of God in their heart. We all know the many passages in the Old Testament in which the Prophet says; “And the Word of the Lord came unto me”. Also the New Testament offers much that owes its origin to an Inner Revelation e.g. The Revelation of John. In Post-Apostolic times Church-Fathers such as Jerome and Augustine, and later the Mystics of the Middle Ages e.g. Bernard of Clairvaux, Tauler, Suso and Thomas-à-Kempis etc: attached great importance to the Inner Revelation. Also Jacob Boehme (1600) and Emanuel Swedenborg (1700) wrote inspired by visions and intuitions - yet one cannot call Boehme and Swedenborg prophets in the Old Testament sense, because neither of them had the Inner Word. True hearers of the Inner Word on the other hand were e.g. the Strassburg merchant, Rulmann Merwein who in 1350 wrote the “Neun Felsen” (Nine Rocks); the N.German Superintendent, J.W. Petersen (about 1700) writer of “Tausend Eröffnungen des Geistes” (A thousand opening of the Spirit) and Joh. Tennhardt in Nürnberg who in 1712 published an “Unterweisung vom Innern Worte Gottes” (Instruction from the Inner Word of God).
But much more significant than the last-mentioned three illuminated men of God, were the immense Revelations which were given to us men of modern times through the Styrian seer and prophet Jakob Lorber. Through this simple man of God, pure in soul, God gave to humanity in the years 1840-1864, an all-embracing, ratifying and explanatory New Revelation of the Divine Will, enlarging the Holy Scriptures, and giving His eternal plan of the universe, His purposes for men and the Doctrine of His all-powerful Love.
Jacob Lorber was born on July 22 1800, in the Parish of Kanisha near Marburg in Styria (Austria), where his father conducted a musical society, also gained his living at times in other places, and possessed and worked two vineyards. The mother of Jacob was a very intelligent woman and was greatly attached to her first-born.
Jacob was already nine years old when he entered the parish school of Jahring, where the village school-master also gave him instruction in music, especially in piano, violin and organ.
In the year 1817, Jacob attended the seminary at Marburg on the Dreve, and at the instigation of a chaplain who had remarked the capabilities of Lorber, he began his studies in 1818 at the Grammar School. In Marburg, after he had passed through five classes successfully, he went to Graz in 1824 to continue his studies. But owing to the difficulty of earning his daily bread in a large town in which he was a stranger, he soon gave up his studies entirely and accepted for five years a position as house-tutor. In 1829, in order to secure a life-position, Lorber nevertheless took up once more the study of teaching and received a good certificate in the Higher course for Teachers in the High Schools. But when his efforts to get a teaching position in 1830 did not lead to his goal at once, Lorber gave up this life-plan, and that finally.
He now devoted himself to music entirely, and in a short time had come so far that he earned a modest income as teacher of music. His special instrument was the violin which he played with much ability, and through his successful imitation of the world-renowned Paganini, he won for himself the recognition of the public.
But serious as was Lorber’s efforts in art, he also felt himself drawn to other directions. A powerful yearning after a deeper penetration into the secrets of Creation, impelled him among other things to examine the starry sky at least with a telescope, although the scientific study of Astronomy lacked, in his case, the fundamental knowledge of mathematics.
Above all else a certain inwardness began to manifest itself in his nature. He delighted in reading the works of authors who, in their writings, treated of transcendental matters, e.g. the works of Swedenborg, Jung-Stilling, Jacob Boehme, Justinus Kerner. However in the reading of these he made no special study, because such was in no way his affair; even these works were put aside again, and it was the Bible which he kept always at hand.
Gradually he began to have significant dreams, some of which he even considered worthy of being written down.
Thus Lorber had already reached his Fortieth year without having really attained a firm position. Now at last such was offered to him. Unexpectedly he received a proposal from Triest to undertake the position of second conductor at a theater there. He accepted it and prepared himself for the journey; but his life suddenly took a completely different direction.
On March 15 1840, at 6 o’clock in the morning - as he related later - when, after his morning devotions he was just about to rise, he heard inwardly in the region of the heart, a voice which called him: “Rise, take thy pencil and write!” He did not delay in the carrying out of this mysterious order, dressed quickly, and seized his pen. And beginning from this hour, and having declined the post at Triest which had been offered him, he served the Inner Voice which he named “The Living Word”, for more than twenty-four years. Until his death, in humility and poverty, with self-sacrificing readiness and loyalty, he continued to act thus as the zealous scribe of the Lord.
His closest friends, to whom he confided this extraordinary event, were astounded at it —indeed just at first they were seriously concerned as to the mental condition of the man whom they so highly esteemed.
However, through the wisdom of what was written down by Lorber, they soon learned better, and one or another of those initiated was often present as a witness of his mysterious writing. Lorber sat quietly at his little table, having neither book nor any other means of help at his side, and, completely absorbed and comparatively quickly, but without pausing for reflection or the correction of what he had written down, he mechanically used his pen just like someone to whom another person was dictating. At the same time, what he wrote down appeared to be of no great interest to him at the moment, but when he had laid aside his pen and read aloud what was written to the trusted ones present, he often broke forth into tears of deep emotion, praising aloud the Love of God.
Let us hear what he communicated, in answer to a question of a friend concerning the Inner Voice, on May 16 1858: “With regard to The Inner Word, how one hears It, speaking of myself I can say little, in fact not much more than that I perceive the Holiest Word of the Lord always in the region of the heart, like thoughts expressed with the greatest distinctness, clearly and perfectly, like words spoken aloud. No one standing even quite close to me can hear any kind of voice; but for me, this Voice of Holy Grace sounds nevertheless more clearly than any material tone, be it ever so loud.”
Still more easily he dictated what he received inwardly. In that case he sat next to the person writing, looking calmly in front of him, never hesitating in the regular flow of speech, or making any additions to sentences or altering single expressions, and if by chance his dictation was interrupted for a shorter or longer time, he was able, without re-reading what was already written down, beginning from the last word, to continue as it were mechanically in the right connection.
Generally he began his daily mission of writing first thing in the morning before breakfast (which in zeal he often left untouched), and then went afterwards to earn his modest income as a music-teacher. Only twice did he interrupt this regular silent occupation, in 1845 and 1846, when he stayed with his two brothers who were then living in Oberkärnten; also in 1857, when he was making a tour as a violinist through the crown-lands of Austria; but he unfailingly returned to Graz to his customary work.
Lorber however felt that through this disturbing secondary occupation, he was too much drawn away from what he looked upon as his specific life-vocation. Therefore he gave it up completely and satisfied himself with earning his living through teaching music and the tuning of pianos. Nevertheless in spite of his modest needs, this income was later insufficient, for Lorber had become already too frail in health for distant walks often connected with his profession. He was then helped by free-will gifts from kind friends, the more so, as he never received any payments for his many writings. During his life-time and without his name being mentioned, these attained publication through the large monetary offerings of his friends.
In the winter 1863/64, Lorber began to be an invalid, and after he had recuperated somewhat in the spring for a short time, the earthly existence of this memorable man came to its close on the 23rd of August, to the deepest grief of his friends.{mospagebreak}
Of the vast works of Jacob Lorber, the most important are the ten volumes: Great Gospel of John, The housekeeping of God, The Childhood of Jesus, The Spiritual Sun, The natural Sun, Earth and Moon, Robert Blum and Bishop Martin.
In a certain way, the small work The Three-Days’ Scene in the Temple is given as an extension of the work The Childhood of Jesus, and contains - as may be guessed from the title - the description of the 12 year old boy Jesus in the Temple, and concerning which it is said in St. Luke 2:47: “And all who heard Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers.”
In the hope that we have, with the help of the Heavenly Father, presented this Edition to the satisfaction of all readers, we wish that this work, small but very impressive, may succeed in bringing very many people to the Loving Father-Heart of God."
Beitigheim, 1932.
The Publishers
Neu-Salems-Society
Beitigheim (Würtemberg)
S.Germany.
See also the following excerpts out of © Kurt Eggenstein: 'The Prophet J. Lorber Predicts Coming Catastrophies and the True Christianity'
1. You are the Lot of Sodom, but make sure that you do not suffocate in unchastely and thus participate in the heritage of the harlot, for you are unlike anyone before or after you. As a man you are entirely in the flesh and its lust, but as a spirit you are completely free with open eyes and open ears. You soil your body with dirt, whilst streams of light are poured upon your spirit. Your body feeds with the swine, whilst a thousand angels surround your spirit. You have filled your earthly heart with mire and dirt, but I have made My abode in the heart of your spirit. You talk with harlots, whilst I talk to you as a brother to his brother. You stink like a cesspool, and your spirit breathes the sweet odors of the highest heavens. You are a horrible creature, but your eye shines more than the suns. Therefore, cleanse your flesh and become one with Me so that I may become One with you." (The Household of God, chap. 2)
"The true prophets find themselves upon the way of the inner perfection of life or the spiritual rebirth so far, so that the soul has already freed itself from its flesh or the tough hands of matter and has awakened the divine spirit within itself. Thereby the soul begins to approach its life-center in the heart to which God’s light flows continually and without ceasing." (3. GGJ 204, 2-21)
"And now behold, you My lazy and very inefficient servant, you are still very hard of hearing, for I must dictate to you every word individually, and you still do not understand Me and keep asking Me often twice, thrice, five times, even up to ten times, and every time I faithfully repeat each word to you. Therefore, pay more attention that we may make better progress, for soon the world will need this work of My great grace to be completed. Let Me, your holy Father, who is all love within His entire being, tell you this." (The Household of God I, chp. 11)
“With the great prophets, through the love-of-the-spirit-lighted soul, begins to enter into the spirit completely. Their spiritual heart has become a concave mirror through the love and humility which is then in a position to catch the rays of the spiritual sun and to build an image of Jesus in its focus. The image of Jesus then speaks in the spiritual heart to the soul of such a love-filled and truly humble person.” (2 Heavenly Gifts 72, 17-22)
“You will feel, in your heart, thoughts, clear like purely spoken words, and will then be able to easily speak from the mouth. Therein lies the mystery in the human heart.” (6 GGJ 79, 17)
"My voice can usually only emerge clearly in the human soul when many bitter experiences of all kinds have made the soul more inward, making it turn away from outer things." (GGJ XI p. 151)
"Only those people who in their soul are trying to become like Him or are already more or less like Him, will be able to find God. But to become equal to God means: to become full of love for your fellowmen, and to let your heart be full of humility, meekness, patience and mercy regarding everybody. Then God will also have mercy on you, and in the spirit of His love and eternal truth He will let Himself be found by you. If you only want to search God in and with the only truth, then you will find Him indeed, but you will not see His real being and even less understand it. However, if you are searching God in the pure love, humility, meekness, patience and mercy, then you will find God, recognize Him and receive the eternal life of your soul." (GGJ Book 17, 19:3-5 - Archangel Raphael about the true way to God)
(Angel Raphael) “[14] Whenever God sends or awakens a prophet somewhere, all people should crowd around him to hear from him the holy word of God for their own greatest good.; for God awakens men, who are in the profound depth of true heavenly wisdom, only once every hundred years.
[15] But really great prophets, through whom God reveals to the people of the earth very many and great things, are sent to this earth at the utmost every thousand to thousand years. On the one hand, they are to show the people on a large scale and in more detail the new paths of God to still higher perfection and, on the other hand, to lead them back from the many self-made wrong ways and onto a right one.
[16] For behold, in God’s great creation everything is in a forward option, like the time on earth which also never stands still. This spirits are evidently making continuously great progress. Because such progress does take place continually in the realm of pure spirits, the immortal beings on the global worlds must not fall behind, as otherwise the distance between them and the realm of the spirits would become to great.
[17] After such great prophets have appeared, things go better with the people as regards their own activity, if not generally, yet individually. But whenever in the spirit world a great step forward is taken, the always somewhat veiled light of a former great prophet is awakened and sent, and mankind the catches up again, even if only in individuals at first, with the great lead of the spirit world.
[18] Nevertheless, mankind becomes in the course of a few hundred years more ingenious and, finally, comes up with things the previous generations would never gave dreamt of.
[19] Reaching, thus, after about twelve to fifteen centuries a kind of culmination point, it would in itself become indolent and stagnant, which is allowed on this earth by God, so that there may always be found on it every imaginable phase of human development. This is to show the more enlightened people that mankind without from time to time forthcoming revelations, remains for thousands of years in the same spot, not progressing by a hair’s breadth, as you can all see by the example of the present-day inhabitants of India and Indo-China.
[20] The Lord allows this in order to show the people who at some time visit there that things are precisely as I have now told you. But you yourselves that is, your descendants, will finally have to drag those people along, for the Lord never awakens a great prophet expressly for peoples who are on a lower level of spiritual development; but He has them, the undeveloped peoples, as it were dragged along – for which the Lord has His endlessly wise reasons – by the main nations of this earth who have actually been taught only through revelations.
[21] But the people on a globe who are thus favored by God shall always be most deeply and gratefully conscious of this high calling and apply themselves to their task full of zeal. Otherwise it is their own fault if they finally degenerate in their descendants to far below the Indochinese, in the end even becoming quite dumb like beasts.” (GGJ III, chap. 3)
Only he should teach his fellowmen who first was taught by the Lord in his heart. Look at prophets works
"[3] Only the one, who teaches his fellowman in the right order, as I have shown you, will build a house on a rocky surface. When storms and floods will come over such house, they will not be able to damage the house, because it was built on a rocky surface. And that Rock am I. And when you begin with Me, you will be able to do everything very well. However, without Me nothing. Remember this well, My friend.
[4] If someone seriously wants to teach his fellowman about Me, he should not seek advice within himself for too long as to how he should deal with it in the most fruitful way. For I Myself will lay the right words in his heart and in his mouth.
[5] And now that you also know that, you will not make a wrong step when you will instruct your fellowmen in My name. But he who will not completely heed this, will quickly and easily come on wrong paths, on which he and his disciple will hardly be able to find their way.
[6] That was always the evil beginning of the false and deceitful prophets and the darkening of the people and their deterioration. That is why, only he should teach his fellowmen who first was taught by Me in his heart. However, he who will teach his fellowmen out of himself and only of what he heard piece by piece from other people, as if he was taught by Me, and who will also call out: ‘Look, here’, ‘there’ or ‘over there is Christ, the Anointed Truth from God since eternity’, you should not believe, for that is a false prophet who only wants to act as a prophet for the sake of his reputation and temporarily gain.
[7] And he who wants to distinguish with little effort a false prophet from a true prophet and teacher who was called by Me, should look at his works.
[8] What man can hide least of all from the eyes of his fellowmen are his selfishness and pursuit of profit. To satisfy that, he all too soon and visibly will leave nothing untried to reach the goal for which his heart has an indestructible love.
[9] Therefore, let the false prophets never receive might or outer reputation. For once they have reached that, it soon will look extremely dark again among the people, and you will have a hard battle to fight against them.” (53. False and true prophets - GGJ Book 22)
For the next 24 years, his full remaining lifetime, he obeyed with unshakable faith to his calling as a humble 'God's Scribe'. His biographer, the poet and Secretary to the Estates
Karl Gottfried von Leitner claimed that "Lorber wrote almost daily, beginning in the morning before breakfast. Completely withdrawn, he wrote at an average speed without pausing to think or correcting what he had written, uninterruptedly like someone who was taking a dictation. He often mentioned that while listening to the uttering voice he also saw visions of what he heard. It was even easier for him to record what he heard within when he could dictate it to another person. Actually, he dictated entire works to some of his friends, sitting next to the writer, quietly gazing ahead, never faltering in the flow of words or changing the structure of a sentence, or even a single expression."
Lorber was also observed while writing by other notable men in the city of Graz, such as Dr. Justinus Kerner, Dr. Ch. F. Zimpel, the mayor of Graz, Anton Hüttenbrenner, his brother the composer Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Dr. Anton Kammerhuber, Leopold Cantily, pharmacist of Graz. Lorber wrote for many hours almost daily, rarely interrupted his work, without consulting any books of reference, and without any manifold knowledge, obediently recording what the voice in his heart dictated to him. As his manuscripts prove it, he didn´t correct even a single line. In a letter to a friend, Lorber confesses: "Dearly beloved friend and brother! Concerning the Inner Word and how this is heard I can only say that I always hear the Lord´s most holy Word in the region of the heart lke a clear thought, light and pure, like spoken words. No one, though he may be quite close to me, can hear anything at all of a voice. But to me this voice of grace sounds clearer than even the loudest material sound."
24 years after he first received his mission as God's scribe, on the 24th of August 1864, Jakob Lorber died at home, surrounded by some of his closest friends. He foresaw his own death. On his tombstone at the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz, Paul's words are written: "Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." (see also Who might really be Jakob Lorber... and THE STRONG LINK BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE NEW REVELATION - The Two Witnesses)
At the later publication, after his death, there were 10,000 pages, which were comprised in 25 volumes, a unique, immense work, not to mention many shorter writings. The Great Gospel of John (comprising 11 books in the original German variant, last one written after Lorber´s death, through inner word, by a friend, Leopold Engel )* is about 2,000 pages very detailed first-person narrative of Jesus Christ's last three years of His Life on Earth, fully confirming the Christian values and the Gospels of John and Matthew. Herein there are details of His travels throughout the holy land, of the miracles, healings and, most important, teachings He performed, majority of which were never before revealed to humanity.
Lorber's first complete work, The Household of God, is a spiritual account of the Old Testament up to the times of Noah. He also wrote many works regarding life in the beyond, life on other planets and stars, the structure of our Earth, Moon and solar system as well as the new medicine of the future - Heliotherapy (see the list of Lorber´s works).
Considering their enormous complexity and their consistency with the Old and New Testament, but also with actual technological and scientific facts (see Examples of predictions and prophecies and Kurt Eggelstein's The Prophet Jakob Lorber predicts coming catastrophes and the true Christianity) the Great Gospel of John, but also the other writings of Jakob Lorber give an unbeatable testimony for their divine origin. More, Lorber himself claimed to be unable to understand many of the things he was told by the inner voice. The teachings deal with all the basic themes of human and universal existence: the nature of God and His identity with Jesus Christ, the Fall of Lucifer, the creation of universe and man, the purpose of human and universal existence, the principles for a healthy life of the soul and of the body, etc - see About the New Revelation.
see also The Kindom of God, poem by Jakob Lorber
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*) After Lorber, Gottfried Mayerhofer in turn received additional dictation and finally, Leopold Engel ( for the last eleventh booh of the Great Gospel of John)
for further reference, please see also the following:
Preface of "The Three-Days-Scene at the Temple in Jerusalem" (Beitigheim, 1932)
"In all ages there have been pure God-endowed men who have heard the Voice of God in their heart. We all know the many passages in the Old Testament in which the Prophet says; “And the Word of the Lord came unto me”. Also the New Testament offers much that owes its origin to an Inner Revelation e.g. The Revelation of John. In Post-Apostolic times Church-Fathers such as Jerome and Augustine, and later the Mystics of the Middle Ages e.g. Bernard of Clairvaux, Tauler, Suso and Thomas-à-Kempis etc: attached great importance to the Inner Revelation. Also Jacob Boehme (1600) and Emanuel Swedenborg (1700) wrote inspired by visions and intuitions - yet one cannot call Boehme and Swedenborg prophets in the Old Testament sense, because neither of them had the Inner Word. True hearers of the Inner Word on the other hand were e.g. the Strassburg merchant, Rulmann Merwein who in 1350 wrote the “Neun Felsen” (Nine Rocks); the N.German Superintendent, J.W. Petersen (about 1700) writer of “Tausend Eröffnungen des Geistes” (A thousand opening of the Spirit) and Joh. Tennhardt in Nürnberg who in 1712 published an “Unterweisung vom Innern Worte Gottes” (Instruction from the Inner Word of God).
But much more significant than the last-mentioned three illuminated men of God, were the immense Revelations which were given to us men of modern times through the Styrian seer and prophet Jakob Lorber. Through this simple man of God, pure in soul, God gave to humanity in the years 1840-1864, an all-embracing, ratifying and explanatory New Revelation of the Divine Will, enlarging the Holy Scriptures, and giving His eternal plan of the universe, His purposes for men and the Doctrine of His all-powerful Love.
Jacob Lorber was born on July 22 1800, in the Parish of Kanisha near Marburg in Styria (Austria), where his father conducted a musical society, also gained his living at times in other places, and possessed and worked two vineyards. The mother of Jacob was a very intelligent woman and was greatly attached to her first-born.
Jacob was already nine years old when he entered the parish school of Jahring, where the village school-master also gave him instruction in music, especially in piano, violin and organ.
In the year 1817, Jacob attended the seminary at Marburg on the Dreve, and at the instigation of a chaplain who had remarked the capabilities of Lorber, he began his studies in 1818 at the Grammar School. In Marburg, after he had passed through five classes successfully, he went to Graz in 1824 to continue his studies. But owing to the difficulty of earning his daily bread in a large town in which he was a stranger, he soon gave up his studies entirely and accepted for five years a position as house-tutor. In 1829, in order to secure a life-position, Lorber nevertheless took up once more the study of teaching and received a good certificate in the Higher course for Teachers in the High Schools. But when his efforts to get a teaching position in 1830 did not lead to his goal at once, Lorber gave up this life-plan, and that finally.
He now devoted himself to music entirely, and in a short time had come so far that he earned a modest income as teacher of music. His special instrument was the violin which he played with much ability, and through his successful imitation of the world-renowned Paganini, he won for himself the recognition of the public.
But serious as was Lorber’s efforts in art, he also felt himself drawn to other directions. A powerful yearning after a deeper penetration into the secrets of Creation, impelled him among other things to examine the starry sky at least with a telescope, although the scientific study of Astronomy lacked, in his case, the fundamental knowledge of mathematics.
Above all else a certain inwardness began to manifest itself in his nature. He delighted in reading the works of authors who, in their writings, treated of transcendental matters, e.g. the works of Swedenborg, Jung-Stilling, Jacob Boehme, Justinus Kerner. However in the reading of these he made no special study, because such was in no way his affair; even these works were put aside again, and it was the Bible which he kept always at hand.
Gradually he began to have significant dreams, some of which he even considered worthy of being written down.
Thus Lorber had already reached his Fortieth year without having really attained a firm position. Now at last such was offered to him. Unexpectedly he received a proposal from Triest to undertake the position of second conductor at a theater there. He accepted it and prepared himself for the journey; but his life suddenly took a completely different direction.
On March 15 1840, at 6 o’clock in the morning - as he related later - when, after his morning devotions he was just about to rise, he heard inwardly in the region of the heart, a voice which called him: “Rise, take thy pencil and write!” He did not delay in the carrying out of this mysterious order, dressed quickly, and seized his pen. And beginning from this hour, and having declined the post at Triest which had been offered him, he served the Inner Voice which he named “The Living Word”, for more than twenty-four years. Until his death, in humility and poverty, with self-sacrificing readiness and loyalty, he continued to act thus as the zealous scribe of the Lord.
His closest friends, to whom he confided this extraordinary event, were astounded at it —indeed just at first they were seriously concerned as to the mental condition of the man whom they so highly esteemed.
However, through the wisdom of what was written down by Lorber, they soon learned better, and one or another of those initiated was often present as a witness of his mysterious writing. Lorber sat quietly at his little table, having neither book nor any other means of help at his side, and, completely absorbed and comparatively quickly, but without pausing for reflection or the correction of what he had written down, he mechanically used his pen just like someone to whom another person was dictating. At the same time, what he wrote down appeared to be of no great interest to him at the moment, but when he had laid aside his pen and read aloud what was written to the trusted ones present, he often broke forth into tears of deep emotion, praising aloud the Love of God.
Let us hear what he communicated, in answer to a question of a friend concerning the Inner Voice, on May 16 1858: “With regard to The Inner Word, how one hears It, speaking of myself I can say little, in fact not much more than that I perceive the Holiest Word of the Lord always in the region of the heart, like thoughts expressed with the greatest distinctness, clearly and perfectly, like words spoken aloud. No one standing even quite close to me can hear any kind of voice; but for me, this Voice of Holy Grace sounds nevertheless more clearly than any material tone, be it ever so loud.”
Still more easily he dictated what he received inwardly. In that case he sat next to the person writing, looking calmly in front of him, never hesitating in the regular flow of speech, or making any additions to sentences or altering single expressions, and if by chance his dictation was interrupted for a shorter or longer time, he was able, without re-reading what was already written down, beginning from the last word, to continue as it were mechanically in the right connection.
Generally he began his daily mission of writing first thing in the morning before breakfast (which in zeal he often left untouched), and then went afterwards to earn his modest income as a music-teacher. Only twice did he interrupt this regular silent occupation, in 1845 and 1846, when he stayed with his two brothers who were then living in Oberkärnten; also in 1857, when he was making a tour as a violinist through the crown-lands of Austria; but he unfailingly returned to Graz to his customary work.
Lorber however felt that through this disturbing secondary occupation, he was too much drawn away from what he looked upon as his specific life-vocation. Therefore he gave it up completely and satisfied himself with earning his living through teaching music and the tuning of pianos. Nevertheless in spite of his modest needs, this income was later insufficient, for Lorber had become already too frail in health for distant walks often connected with his profession. He was then helped by free-will gifts from kind friends, the more so, as he never received any payments for his many writings. During his life-time and without his name being mentioned, these attained publication through the large monetary offerings of his friends.
In the winter 1863/64, Lorber began to be an invalid, and after he had recuperated somewhat in the spring for a short time, the earthly existence of this memorable man came to its close on the 23rd of August, to the deepest grief of his friends.{mospagebreak}
Of the vast works of Jacob Lorber, the most important are the ten volumes: Great Gospel of John, The housekeeping of God, The Childhood of Jesus, The Spiritual Sun, The natural Sun, Earth and Moon, Robert Blum and Bishop Martin.
In a certain way, the small work The Three-Days’ Scene in the Temple is given as an extension of the work The Childhood of Jesus, and contains - as may be guessed from the title - the description of the 12 year old boy Jesus in the Temple, and concerning which it is said in St. Luke 2:47: “And all who heard Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers.”
In the hope that we have, with the help of the Heavenly Father, presented this Edition to the satisfaction of all readers, we wish that this work, small but very impressive, may succeed in bringing very many people to the Loving Father-Heart of God."
Beitigheim, 1932.
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See also the following excerpts out of © Kurt Eggenstein: 'The Prophet J. Lorber Predicts Coming Catastrophies and the True Christianity'
- The Inner Voice Calling Jakob Lorber to Prophesy < >
- Jakob Lorber - Some Personal Details
- Lorber's Method of Recording the Inner Voice
- Wide Dissemination of New Revelation as Predicted Now in These Last Days
1. You are the Lot of Sodom, but make sure that you do not suffocate in unchastely and thus participate in the heritage of the harlot, for you are unlike anyone before or after you. As a man you are entirely in the flesh and its lust, but as a spirit you are completely free with open eyes and open ears. You soil your body with dirt, whilst streams of light are poured upon your spirit. Your body feeds with the swine, whilst a thousand angels surround your spirit. You have filled your earthly heart with mire and dirt, but I have made My abode in the heart of your spirit. You talk with harlots, whilst I talk to you as a brother to his brother. You stink like a cesspool, and your spirit breathes the sweet odors of the highest heavens. You are a horrible creature, but your eye shines more than the suns. Therefore, cleanse your flesh and become one with Me so that I may become One with you." (The Household of God, chap. 2)
"The true prophets find themselves upon the way of the inner perfection of life or the spiritual rebirth so far, so that the soul has already freed itself from its flesh or the tough hands of matter and has awakened the divine spirit within itself. Thereby the soul begins to approach its life-center in the heart to which God’s light flows continually and without ceasing." (3. GGJ 204, 2-21)
"And now behold, you My lazy and very inefficient servant, you are still very hard of hearing, for I must dictate to you every word individually, and you still do not understand Me and keep asking Me often twice, thrice, five times, even up to ten times, and every time I faithfully repeat each word to you. Therefore, pay more attention that we may make better progress, for soon the world will need this work of My great grace to be completed. Let Me, your holy Father, who is all love within His entire being, tell you this." (The Household of God I, chp. 11)
“With the great prophets, through the love-of-the-spirit-lighted soul, begins to enter into the spirit completely. Their spiritual heart has become a concave mirror through the love and humility which is then in a position to catch the rays of the spiritual sun and to build an image of Jesus in its focus. The image of Jesus then speaks in the spiritual heart to the soul of such a love-filled and truly humble person.” (2 Heavenly Gifts 72, 17-22)
“You will feel, in your heart, thoughts, clear like purely spoken words, and will then be able to easily speak from the mouth. Therein lies the mystery in the human heart.” (6 GGJ 79, 17)
"My voice can usually only emerge clearly in the human soul when many bitter experiences of all kinds have made the soul more inward, making it turn away from outer things." (GGJ XI p. 151)
"Only those people who in their soul are trying to become like Him or are already more or less like Him, will be able to find God. But to become equal to God means: to become full of love for your fellowmen, and to let your heart be full of humility, meekness, patience and mercy regarding everybody. Then God will also have mercy on you, and in the spirit of His love and eternal truth He will let Himself be found by you. If you only want to search God in and with the only truth, then you will find Him indeed, but you will not see His real being and even less understand it. However, if you are searching God in the pure love, humility, meekness, patience and mercy, then you will find God, recognize Him and receive the eternal life of your soul." (GGJ Book 17, 19:3-5 - Archangel Raphael about the true way to God)
(Angel Raphael) “[14] Whenever God sends or awakens a prophet somewhere, all people should crowd around him to hear from him the holy word of God for their own greatest good.; for God awakens men, who are in the profound depth of true heavenly wisdom, only once every hundred years.
[15] But really great prophets, through whom God reveals to the people of the earth very many and great things, are sent to this earth at the utmost every thousand to thousand years. On the one hand, they are to show the people on a large scale and in more detail the new paths of God to still higher perfection and, on the other hand, to lead them back from the many self-made wrong ways and onto a right one.
[16] For behold, in God’s great creation everything is in a forward option, like the time on earth which also never stands still. This spirits are evidently making continuously great progress. Because such progress does take place continually in the realm of pure spirits, the immortal beings on the global worlds must not fall behind, as otherwise the distance between them and the realm of the spirits would become to great.
[17] After such great prophets have appeared, things go better with the people as regards their own activity, if not generally, yet individually. But whenever in the spirit world a great step forward is taken, the always somewhat veiled light of a former great prophet is awakened and sent, and mankind the catches up again, even if only in individuals at first, with the great lead of the spirit world.
[18] Nevertheless, mankind becomes in the course of a few hundred years more ingenious and, finally, comes up with things the previous generations would never gave dreamt of.
[19] Reaching, thus, after about twelve to fifteen centuries a kind of culmination point, it would in itself become indolent and stagnant, which is allowed on this earth by God, so that there may always be found on it every imaginable phase of human development. This is to show the more enlightened people that mankind without from time to time forthcoming revelations, remains for thousands of years in the same spot, not progressing by a hair’s breadth, as you can all see by the example of the present-day inhabitants of India and Indo-China.
[20] The Lord allows this in order to show the people who at some time visit there that things are precisely as I have now told you. But you yourselves that is, your descendants, will finally have to drag those people along, for the Lord never awakens a great prophet expressly for peoples who are on a lower level of spiritual development; but He has them, the undeveloped peoples, as it were dragged along – for which the Lord has His endlessly wise reasons – by the main nations of this earth who have actually been taught only through revelations.
[21] But the people on a globe who are thus favored by God shall always be most deeply and gratefully conscious of this high calling and apply themselves to their task full of zeal. Otherwise it is their own fault if they finally degenerate in their descendants to far below the Indochinese, in the end even becoming quite dumb like beasts.” (GGJ III, chap. 3)
Only he should teach his fellowmen who first was taught by the Lord in his heart. Look at prophets works
"[3] Only the one, who teaches his fellowman in the right order, as I have shown you, will build a house on a rocky surface. When storms and floods will come over such house, they will not be able to damage the house, because it was built on a rocky surface. And that Rock am I. And when you begin with Me, you will be able to do everything very well. However, without Me nothing. Remember this well, My friend.
[4] If someone seriously wants to teach his fellowman about Me, he should not seek advice within himself for too long as to how he should deal with it in the most fruitful way. For I Myself will lay the right words in his heart and in his mouth.
[5] And now that you also know that, you will not make a wrong step when you will instruct your fellowmen in My name. But he who will not completely heed this, will quickly and easily come on wrong paths, on which he and his disciple will hardly be able to find their way.
[6] That was always the evil beginning of the false and deceitful prophets and the darkening of the people and their deterioration. That is why, only he should teach his fellowmen who first was taught by Me in his heart. However, he who will teach his fellowmen out of himself and only of what he heard piece by piece from other people, as if he was taught by Me, and who will also call out: ‘Look, here’, ‘there’ or ‘over there is Christ, the Anointed Truth from God since eternity’, you should not believe, for that is a false prophet who only wants to act as a prophet for the sake of his reputation and temporarily gain.
[7] And he who wants to distinguish with little effort a false prophet from a true prophet and teacher who was called by Me, should look at his works.
[8] What man can hide least of all from the eyes of his fellowmen are his selfishness and pursuit of profit. To satisfy that, he all too soon and visibly will leave nothing untried to reach the goal for which his heart has an indestructible love.
[9] Therefore, let the false prophets never receive might or outer reputation. For once they have reached that, it soon will look extremely dark again among the people, and you will have a hard battle to fight against them.” (53. False and true prophets - GGJ Book 22)