see also: Finding God // God's Love // God's Warnings
Love For Fellowman // Love For God // Purpose Of Life Self Love // Sin Jesus Is God // Reasons Of God's Incarnation Plan Of Creation And Salvation Light awakens light, love again love, and life - life. (GGJ, VII/116:3) “Heed the voice that - as once the voice in the wilderness - is now calling to you in the wilderness of worldly activities: "Do not forget Him Who reigns above the stars, but also wants to dwell in every man's heart!" John preached in the wilderness. He did this because the wilderness which is barren of vegetative life would not distract his listeners. Now I am preaching to you in the wilderness of the spiritual life which, because of the arrogance of human intellect, has become barren of all that revives the heart. Thus I, like John, am endeavouring to plant the spiritual flower of love in the midst of sand and rock which, not drawing nourishment from the soil, obtains its nourishment only from above. And now, on the ground of a speculative world of the intellect made barren through egoism, in the wilderness of the divine spiritual life barren of deeper thought, I once more call out to you: "Awake! Go into the depths of your being in order to find the source of never-ending joy, comfort and love as the fundamental principle of all created and animated things. Recognize Him again Who, through gardens full of flowers, through shady forests and on lofty mountains and up to the most distant universal sun, is always the same, never changes and -since He has created everything - expects of His created beings only the one thing that a mother, a father expect of their child as a first sign of kinship - love."
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Faith „At the right time, My word will reach all who call for it in their hearts." (Himmelsgaben, pag. 276) "I shall put the souls that are ready in your way." (Lord's Sermons 163) "They are ready because a desire for higher goals has come awake and alive within them." (GGJ V 128, 3) "Therefore also, only those shall be given the light to awaken their mind and spirit from the heavens who are seeking it, and also love and esteem it as the highest there is in life." (GGJ IX 180, 6) “Whoever wants life must take it from the One Who is the life Himself. But He gives life only to the one who thirst for it.’ (The Great Gospel of John, VII 188:21) Humility and receiving the truth "8. The soul must be cleansed with the water of humility and self-denial (for water is the most ancient symbol of humility; it allows everything to be done with it, serves in all things and always seeks for itself the lowest places on earth, fleeing the heights) and only then by the spirit of truth, which an impure soul cannot ever conceive. An impure soul is like the night, whereas truth is a sun full of light, which causes to be day all around it. 9. Therefore, whoever absorbs truth into his soul cleansed through humility and really recognises this as such, is set free in spirit through this truth. This freedom of the spirit, or the entering of the spirit into such freedom, is then also the actual entering into the Kingdom of God." (GGJ I, chap. 19) see also
Hell // Judgement Of Sinners // Capital Punishment Lust For Pleasure // Lust For Power // Sin // Tyrants 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.” (GGJ VI 33, 10-11) "... 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." (GGJ VI 33, 12) "A truly noble and good person is modest in his demands, whereas the wicked, lightless wordly person never finds his demands satisfied." (GGJ II 201, 7) 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/117, through Jakob Lorber; comp. also "The Great Gospel of John" IV/53, 1 on; X/125, 6; VII/218 on. through Jakob Lorber) ”I said: ‘Everyone who lives according to My teaching, but whoever lives according to his self-esteem, which is usually saturated with self-love and pride, and cannot from all his heart forgive and bless ten times more the one who offended him in some way, will sooner or later have to taste the inevitable consequences of hostility against which he can by no means expect any protection from Me, unless he has paid his debt to his enemy to the last penny. Therefore, do live in peace and unity with everyone. It is better for you to suffer an injustice than to do even an apparent justice to someone. Thus you will not educate avengers for yourselves, and the spirits, who otherwise would have become your enemies, will then be your guardian angels and ward off many a calamity threatening you.
But why is all this so, and must be? Here I say: because it has to be so in accordance with My will and unchangeable order.’” (The Great Gospel of John Book 1, 80:2-3) “(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. "Let be the world, it can give you pleasure only for moments, but it can never satisfy you for any length of time. For with the gaining of some worldly possession the pleasure of anticipation ceases. This is not the case in the spiritual world. My Kingdom is infinite. spiritual possession has no limits and, therefore, everlasting progress is possible. With every stage greater enjoyment, greater power and greater ability is attained.
Whilst in material things certain conditions and circumstances are needed to achieve a desired success, spiritual progress offers at all times the opportunity to advance. Whilst in worldly things we are mainly dependent on others, in the spiritual your own innermost being is the greatest storehouse where all the treasures of an infinite world of the spirit are lying concealed. It is within you that I can reveal Myself as the Father, as the Son and as the Supreme Spirit. On this revelation depend your peace and equanimity and, thanks to it, you learn to regard all the troubles in your life not as punishment but as wise and necessary trials. Then you begin to fully comprehend the words: Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden!" Love, a heavenly Father's everlasting, infinite love, has put this burden upon you, but it also helps you carry it. Then the suffering and troubles of temporal life are no longer misery, but blessings from a Father who does not want to make of His children worldly masters, but spiritual pioneers for His teaching of love - already here and one day in that everlasting kingdom. Do take all of this to heart! The ultimate achievement will prove to you the final words of this chapter of the Gospel (Matt. XI,30): "For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light!" Amen." (Sermon 2 - Lord's Sermons) See also:
Ages Of Man (Fundamental Teachings) Old Age (Fundamental Teachings) "Your body, as matter, is indeed a ‘nothing’; therefore, great immortal man shall not care for his temporal and material ‘nothing’, but for the spiritual ‘everything’. Then he will no longer be able to say that he is an absolute ‘nothing’ but, instead, in and with Me an absolute ‘everything’." (The Great Gospel of John VI, 247:8) “Man will leave father and mother…”
“[6] When Adam awoke, full of amazement and full of joy he saw his image beside him, which of course was very fond of him and had to be, because bodily it originated from his being. [7] However, in the area of his heart he felt as if something was pressurizing him, but quite pleasantly, at times he also felt an emptiness – this was the beginning of sexual love – and he could never separate himself from the image, which caused him so much pleasure. Wherever he went, the wife followed him, and wherever the wife went, he surely could not let her go alone. He felt the value of the wife and her love and therefore said in a clairvoyant moment: ‘We, I as a man and you as a woman, grown from my rib (area of the heart) according to God’s plan, are therefore one flesh and one body; you are my life’s most lovely part, and so it will be, and the man will leave father and mother (the man’s seriousness and his worries) and will hang on to his wife!’” (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 9, chap. 94) The blessing of the Lord to a true marriage of heavenly love “[18] I said: ‘My most noble brother, I have already blessed you, and with that you are fully one body. Remember this however: [19] What God has joined, no man should separate, and thus a true marriage remains indissoluble for all eternity. A false worldly bond is no bond before God in any case and therefore can be dissolved like worldly men and all their bonds, which are nothing but plain whoring in advance, through which Satan’s children are brought into miserable being. You two therefore are now fully husband and wife, and one flesh before God, Amen.’ (THE GREAT GOSPEL OF JOHN Book 3, chap. 36) "... poverty and need among people on this earth solely and entirely makes for lack of love among them ..." (GGJ IX 210, 4)
"The great and the powerful are thieves and robbers of nations because of their desire for profit and their great need for power, and they will have to expect their just rewards from Me in due time." (GGJ IX 101, 6) "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." (Lord's Sermons 83) "Whoever is so heart-hearted as to be unable to meet his visible fellowman with love - how is he supposes in the obdurate blindness of his heart to love God, Whom he cannot, nor is willing to, see and perceive?! Behold, likewise one day no unrepentant sinner will be able to justify himself before Me, since everyone has been endowed by Me with the capability of recognizing the truth and the good in it, the heathen through the recognition of the visible things and conditions in the great realm of nature, and the Jew by way of special revelation. Therefore, I tell you again:if you ask Father in Me for something in My name, ask Him above all only for the imperishable treasures of the Kingdom of God, and you will obtain them and with them also whatever you require for the life on this earth." (GGJ IX 210:14-16) "3. Then I said that they were indeed healthy as far as their body was concerned, but not in their soul, ‘For whoever practices harlotry and fornication is very sick in his soul. Through this sin a person’s heart hardens from day to day, becomes ever more unfeeling and merciless towards its fellowmen and in the end loves nothing but itself and the object of its lust, not for the sake of the object though, but only for the sake of satisfying its lust. Such a heart then flees God’s Word which admonishes it against its evil desire and in the end even becomes hostile to those who carry the Word of God in their heart and live accordingly. Many of you suffer form this sickness and that is why I returned to you to heal you from this very bad and fatal disease. Those of you who know that they suffer from this deadly disease should entrust themselves to Me and I shall heal them.’
4. At this My announcement many promptly leave the house, for the offenders fear that I may divulge their secret and so they take to their heels. Among them were some adulterers, some guilty of incest and many of both sexes guilty of self-abuse, and they were relieved to be out of My sight. 5. Not that there were not many who would have liked to be healed of this vice, but it was the disgrace! Because they counted as honourable, well-regarded people, and it would have been embarrassing to have their neighbours find out about their infirmity of flesh. Yet they did not consider that they gave themselves away by taking to their heels in response to My offer. see also: Love For Fellowmen (Support for Christianity) Love For God (Support for Christianity) Love For Fellowman (Fundamental Teachings) Love For God (Fundamental Teachings) All of you will still have to stand many a test for the sake of My name and truth, and your patience which is still the weakest spirit within you will not be spared the crucial test. [...] For in these days and in the future times does the Kingdom of God suffer force and those who seize it with force shall also possess it. (Great Gospel of John VIII, 103:9-13) “He who is led to Me by love, can come to Me at any time and I shall receive him with the same love.” (GGJ IX 164:210) "Whoever is with Me in his heart, with him I am always, and he is also always near Me, and this is really the main thing. For of what benefit would it be to one who, though on this earth always personally near Me, keeps his heart far from Me and instead gives it to the mad world? Truly, he is nevertheless more remote from Me than the most remote thing you could possibly imagine." (GGJ III, 119:4) “In the one who takes delight in Me and loves Me, I too take delight and love him.However, times will be coming when people will also seek Me, but not find Me as promptly and easily as you did. But whoever will in all earnest seek Me in his heart and in his actions in accordance with My word will also find Me and be full of joy at having found Me. Once a person has found Me, he will not lose Me again. For a greater trial of his love and patience I shall now and then for certain moments hide My face from him, yet I shall not leave him. Good for those whom I shall try a great deal, for they will recognize from it that I love them very much. He who is tried much and stands the test, will hereafter in My Kingdom be set over many and great things, whereas he who is tried less because of his weakness will be set over fewer and lesser things. All of you will still have to stand many a test for the sake of My name and truth, and your patience which is still the weakest spirit within you will not be spared the crucial test. [...] For in these days and in the future times does the Kingdom of God suffer force and those who seize it with force shall also possess it. (Great Gospel of John VIII, 103:9-13) |
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