The Great Gospel of John
Volume 3
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi
- Chapter 222 -
Philopold's otherworldly experience.
Murel says, "Listen, friend Philopold, you have disclosed things for me which no person had an idea about before! Those are all wonder upon wonders; but tell me in complete seriousness whether that is not perhaps one of your fantasies? For it seems so strange and extraordinary like any of the first fables of heathen belief.
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But it can also be completely true, what I am not in a position to judge, since my knowledge of the stars is certainly my weakest point! But whoever could imagine that the stars, these little sparks of light in heaven, are worlds, and greater even than our Earth, which no man has ever seen all of?!
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I beg you, confirm this for me; for you have awoken in me a too powerful desire to learn more now about this highly memorable matter! One cannot find any trace of this in Moses, yes not even a hint; for there is not even a syllable in his Creation story. Actually no one can make head or tail of his Genesis and what he wanted to say in it!"
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Philopold says, "Friend! Whoever understands Moses correctly can find even that in it; but there it takes more than what one has put into his memory in the most direct sense! But whoever ever loved God above all else, the spirit of God would have given him the right light on the matter and he would then know that Moses? Genesis is not so much the actual creation of worlds, but actually above all just the spiritual up-bringing and education of the entire human being and his free will, going in and beyond the divine order. Whoever understands that and sees it, also then sees the other, because it can be found on the path of the most unmistakable analogy, what I could show you most tangibly myself. But for that the time today would be too short.
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But I have something else, which was given into my hands from above as undeniable proof through the wonderful mercy of the Lord, who is truly here in our midst even in the flesh, as all the prophets announced quite faithfully.
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In those days as now a spirit of an angel dressed with an ethereal body is among us, that is as the Lord visited us in Kane from Kis. This angel loosened the blinds from the eyes of my soul at the behest of the Lord, and immediately afterwards the full consciousness of my previous, or better, my other-world being returned into my whole being.
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When such an enormous spiritual light was lit for me, I saw then very well everything that I owed God the Lord and now even the most loving Father!
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Only then I understood the value of my life and also that of all humans and now I can never enough commend, love and praise the Lord God and all my fellow men.
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But prior to this miraculous act I was an enemy of life like you were, but I am already now convinced that you will soon be and think like now think and am,
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The greatest, most reliable witness among them is the Lord Himself, however, who sent you to me so that you would learn from me whether a person then should owe the Lord God neither praise nor love, in your opinion!"