Witnesses from the Beyond Based on the New Revelation given to Jakob Lorber

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1 Witnesses from the Beyond Based on the New Revelation given to Jakob Lorber In this day and age the belief in a spirit world or the continuation of life after death has been rationalized away through the influence of science: No scientific proof yet of God, spirits etc. Less and less people believe in God, at least in what is called the First world. So there will probably be also few souls who believe these words which came from the heart of God to Jakob Lorber. We are showing below some excerpts dealing with the subject. One is taken from the work From Hell to Heaven. This work is fascinating. In it we can follow Robert Blum who was a revolutionary and fighter for freedom and social justice in the years of unrest in central Europe around Nationalism was on the rise against the established imperial systems and democracy and human rights were the dream of many. Our hero gave speeches in Frankfurt, Germany, and on one occasion traveled to Vienna, Austria. He should not have done that. He was shot by the army of the Emperor on the charge of disturbing the public order. After a few introductory paragraphs we follow our freedom fighter into the great beyond and become witnesses for his first reactions and disbelief to be still alive. As an atheist he did of course not expect anything of this after the firing squad did its job. Still, there he is wondering why he has the impression that things continue. The following excerpt is preceded by an account of a recently deceased woman, who was pretty loose on morals, in fact a prostitute, and who also is highly surprised still being alive, although a little less than Robert Blum because she expected to be a candidate for hell. In her rather offensive conversation with Jesus, whom she did not yet recognize, she wonders whether there is a pardon for her possible at all by that lovely savior who I love terribly. The Lord s comments on the reason for this seemingly offensive revelation [RB.01,067.01]. Note well: This seemingly offensive scene is rendered verbatim, as it takes place in the spirit kingdom and cannot possible proceed differently from the customs, language, vices and diverse levels of education that a society brings with it, for the purpose of showing the faithful reader and follower of this Revelation tangible proof that man, after casting off his body, is exactly the same man with the same 1

2 speech, views, habit, customs, inclinations, passions and subsequent actions as he was in the world with his physical life, i.e. so long as he has not attained the full re-birth of the spirit. 2. Wherefore such initial condition immediately after passing over is called the natural spirituality, whilst a fully reborn spirit is in a state of pure spirituality. 3. The difference between life in this world and in yonder spirit world, with natural spirits if of a naïve character is only the efficacious location. It is usually more or less an index of the spirits inner nature. This appearance, much facilitating spiritual rebirth, falls due to those poor spirits who spent their lives in the world under natural and spiritual deprivation. But spirits of wealthy owners of all kinds of worldly goods, their hearts clinging to them like polyps to the seabed, again find everything the way they left it here. They can tarry in such crudely natural state for several centuries, calculated terrestrially, not being lifted out there from until they themselves begin to sense a desire for something more lofty and perfect. 4. Now you know why this important scene is revealed verbatim and in detail. There is another scene in the Great Gospel of John where Jesus performs a miracle. Here he calls the father of His discussion partner from the spirit world to appear before the party. This man witnesses to his son that he lives over there. [GGJ.10,173.03] And look, at that same moment, the father of the supreme city judge stood in the guestroom, visible for all those who were present. [4] His son recognized him immediately and said to him: So you really continue to live after the death of your body? [5] The father said: Now you believe it because I was forced to appear to you in this way by the power of Him who is with you, and you can see me now because He opened your inner sight. Why did you not believe your mother who is still living, and your three sisters who saw me and spoke to me shortly after my departure? At that occasion I revealed to them briefly 2

3 that the life of the soul after the death of the body is quite different no matter what people think in this short earthly life. [6] The worst in this short time of life is for those who do not believe at all that the soul survives after the falling away of the body, because in the beyond, for a very long time, they still keep the belief which they took along from here and they still expect the eternal extinction which however will and can never come. [7] The result of their misbelief is also that they are lazy and slow to undertake something for their progress in the beyond. And so they live in the beyond as I have heard often a couple of thousand years, and they do not let themselves be dissuaded from their senseless belief by even the lightest spirits. So beware my son that you will not separate from the world with such misbelief. More scenes on this subject here. [GGJ.07:93.02] The woman, however, who was among them with her husband said deeply moved: Oh, how good and just the Lord is. He who has truly recognized Him must really come to love Him above all. Oh, if only the temple servants down there would realize who He was, then they surely would also love Him above all and keep His wise commandments. But the devil in person will never allow this to them, for they are his most faithful servants and helpers, and therefore, are not worth anymore to receive any mercy from the Lord. Oh, once in Hell they surely will regret this eternally and say: Oh, why did we let ourselves be blinded by the devil? But there, such repentance will surely not help them anymore. O Lord, we thank You that You have revealed to us poor, simple people the Kingdom of Your mercy, and withheld it from the wise of this world. [GGJ.07:93.03] I said: You have well spoken according to your own understanding, but consider also that in Hell there is no repentance for improvement of a hellish spirit and that is based on the fact that he really would feel repentance about the evil that he committed on Earth. For if a spirit in Hell could really come to such a repentance, then also improvement and salvation would be possible for him. But an evil spirit thus a devil cannot ever let a good repentance arise within him, but only a repentance that is initially evil as he himself, and 3

4 he only regrets not having committed unspeakably much more evil of the worst kind in the world. [4] It will be clear to every person with some sense that there is no improvement for such a soul and, therefore, also no salvation. [5] As for an angel of Heaven everything is thoroughly good, so also for a devil everything is thoroughly bad. The deeper an angel thinks and wills, the more he will be like God and the more free and mighty he will be, and the deeper a devil thinks and wills, the more he will be unequal to God, and will not be free and not be mighty, because that which is basically evil in him restrains all his power, and it is his judgment and his true death. [6] Yes, My dear, if the devil would be able to truly repent from within, he would not be a devil and would not be in Hell. Therefore, a devil can never improve from within thus, out of himself. But through influences from the outside it is still possible after an unimaginable long time. However, these influences must always correspond completely with the innermost of the devil, which is as already said thoroughly evil. In this way, the evil affecting the devil from the outside suppresses the inner evil, and only by that, it can become progressively clearer in his real evil spirit and thus become a little better. [7] Therefore, the torments of the hellish spirits always seem to come from the outside, which is also the case with very wicked people already on this Earth. If with a very wicked person, teachings, warnings and the wisest instructions have no longer any effect and he wants to resist more and more the laws of order, it is impossible to achieve any improvement from within him, out of himself. Then he comes into the hands of the severe and unmerciful judges who are inflicting very painful outer punishments to the criminal. David was also not free from sin: [GGJ.01:76.13] Since his childhood David was a man according to Jehovah s own heart, but against the Lord s will he had made an enemy of one man, namely Urias, and what a terrible revenge, with the Lord s permission, Urias spirit had then taken David. And that is and remains 4

5 always the certain consequence of a hostile act against a person opposing God s will. [14] It is, of course, quite a different thing if the Lord Himself bids you do it, as He bade David beat with martial force and physically destroy the Philistines who had already become satanic enemies of God and men. These are in the beyond immediately subjected to a hard judgment and cannot ever rise against God s arm, for they are humiliated by the Lord s might. [GGJ.05_136,06] In this world it is considered the greatest misfortune if someone is killed. But it is considered a thousand times greater misfortune in the beyond for an already free soul to be forced back into its mortal, stinking and clumsy body! Therefore you would be doing no-one a favor if you called him back to this earthly life. [GGJ.05_136,07] There are indeed terrible souls there which one could actually call devils. On the other side it is certainly ten thousand times worse for them than it is for a beggar on this earth, however poor and persecuted; but among all the many whose number can be accepted very well as up to ten thousand million now according to the Arabian way of counting, there is none who wants to walk the path of the flesh one more time. But if already the unlucky ones never want to return to this Earth again, how much less those who are happy on the other side! Therefore let this be told to you, and no longer raise any more dead! Have you now understood that too? [EM.01:053.14] Behold, on one hand this is of a disadvantage for people of this earth because they have to live so close of the most vicious of all spirits who lets them have lots of problems to solve. However, on the other hand they have the immense advantage that they for one have a new and powerful spirit of God with which they can easily if they only want to fight against the viciousness of the most vicious and secondly through that be in a position to become perfect children of God. # 3193 (P2927) September 2012 HisNewWord.org 5