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Excerpt from Jacob Lorber THE LORDS BOOK
OF LIFE AND HEALTH available at http://www.merkurpublishing.com/
and http://www.faulksbooks.co.uk/
Earthly and Heavenly Endeavors
The Great Gospel of John VII/222
A
Roman friend for cultural advancement requests a navigational
improvement.
The
Lord answers him: "in generations to come, they will build beautiful
and artful ships, by which people can travel in all directions over all
the oceans with the speed of birds. but this will not increase the good
fortune of human beings, physically or spiritually, but severely
diminish it.
"Therefore,
keep what you have as long as you can! Because, any great improvement in
earthly things is always a real and lasting change for the worse in the
spiritual, which a human being should cultivate on his own with all the
powers of his life.
"Of
what benefit would it be to a human being, if he could win all the
treasures of the world, and through this suffer the greatest harm to his
soul?!
Do
you not yet know the short life span of the flesh on this earth, and its
final destiny?! Weather you die as an emperor, or as a beggar, as far as
the beyond is concerned, it is all one and the same!
"Whosoever
has much here, will lack much in the beyond. Whosoever has little or
nothing here, will lack nothing in the beyond. And he will easily and
forthwith attain the inner, and only true, living spiritual treasures.
"That
is why the forefathers of this earth were such happy human beings. They
satisfied their necessities of life as simple as possible. However, as
soon as human beings began to build their cities in the lower-lying
valleys, haughtiness entered them and they became soft, indolent and
soon fell into all kinds of deprivation, and into all kinds of misery.
What goodness did they derive from this? They lost God from the sight of
their souls, and all the inner vital energy of the spirit left them, so
that they, just as many of you do, could no longer believe in life after
the death of the body.
"Was
that not a dreadful exchange for the greater convenience of the
material--the spiritual was as good as lost!
"Whosoever
is wise among you, and seeks to again exchange an unnecessarily
comfortable and too good material life for the pure and true spiritual
life, would do better by far, than if he would produce the greatest
invention of how to safely and quickly cross the oceans. Nevertheless,
at one point, he will die! Of what benefit will all his great inventions
be to his soul?!
"Therefore,
remain with what you have! Seek above all how to walk more and more upon
the path of the spirit, then you will have made the greatest and best
invention from the great voyage from this earth to the other side, the
spiritual beyond.
"This
will certainly last forever. To reach this, place all your energy and
means into the fullest motion. For the earthly, as far as the body is concerned,
only cares in as far as it is reasonably necessary!
"It
is, of course, a totally natural thing for a human being to eat and
drink, and protect the physical body from the cold and too much heat.
But whosoever cares exclusively for the body, at the expense of the
immortal soul, such a human being is truly blind and incredibly stupid
fool. . . . .
"If
you have understood this well, then no longer ask Me how you can greatly
improve vain earthly things. The only reason I came to this world was to
show you, and firmly prepare the ground for the path to the eternal
life, in order that you may securely and easily progress on this
path!"
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