The Great Gospel of John
Volume 3
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi
- Chapter 221 -
On the past life of the individual.
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(Philopold:) "When the priceless chance to meet this divine Master was given to me a number of weeks ago, immediately all the dull clouds disappeared and the sun of divine life shone in my soul! I finally recognized in this holy light my being and the being of God; only then I finally saw what I owe God, the only Holy Father, He who has always been the purest love through all eternity.
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I recognized myself entirely and realized that I had entered into a very strange contract with the divine spirit in order to become the child of God before my birth on this Earth, which alone in all infinity has the designation to bear the children of God for the conception and raising according to the eternal order of God's love.
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Look up, all the countless stars are worlds very much greater and more magnificent than this Earth, and on each of these worlds you can find people who completely resemble us in form, and you can find great wisdom everywhere among them, and they also do not fully lack love; but they come into the world, almost like the animals of this Earth, already complete and do not need to learn everything that they want to know and should know right from the beginning. The language is one and the same almost everywhere, and there are very distinct limits to its understanding; but everywhere the recognition reaches the highest spirit of God, a recognition which is more a guessing than recognition.
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In short, you can find people on all the countless planets who are almost fully the same as the better heathens of this Earth, only with the difference that the people on the planets basically do not invent anything new; but what is there is in the highest perfection possible, while the heathens can always invent something new and therefore the way to an endless, ever progressing completion is not and in no way limited.
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But on the great worlds [suns, planets etc. ] there are also wise men here and there who from time to time meet with higher spirits and learn about the deeper recognition of God. Then it happens from time to time that here and there the desire appears in a more enlightened person to also become a child of God!
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For on all the worlds the wise men know through the higher spirits which are revealed to them that there is one world in the wide creation on which the people are the children of God, and that a soul, once it has become loose of its body in its world, can enter that happy world (earth) anew but in a very rough physical body. But from that moment on, when someone seriously expresses the desire, everything is explained to him/her in great detail what he/she will have to experience on this world.
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For one, all memory of the previous good status will be removed from the soul in a way so that it will, in the new world, born into the physical world by a woman with an imperfect body, in an almost unconscious, lowest animal like situation where is not even in a position to give the very least account of its new existence. Only gradually, after about a year, a new consciousness begins to develop out of the images, events and perceptions that have been acquired through the senses; memory and the fresh recall of perceptions are then the only pointers and helpers on the new path of this earthly life. There no higher spirits are sent by God to lead the child to a higher and deeper recognition, but instead the parents must strive with their own personal experiences to bring the child onto a better path. The child must then learn a lot, must begin to decide itself, must seek and beg, must bear fear, hunger, thirst, all sorts of pain and lack, must let itself be humiliated to the very last point of life, and in the end of such a life then a painful and serious illness usually comes to take the life of the flesh person.
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Once the person has fulfilled all the demanded and prescribed conditions for life, if he has loved God above all else and his neighbor more than himself- even if he had persecuted him like the worst enemy - then he has activated the light of the spirit of God laid in the heart of his soul and awoken it in order to grow.
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Only from then on does the God grow in man, penetrates the soul, makes it equal, and so the previous natural person has become a child of God from out of the deepest mud of nothingness who can rejoice in such a perfected condition of all those perfections which are in God Himself.
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Look, friend Murel, as I have just informed you now, as generally and as short as possible, in this way will it be presented to a person in a world of stars; and if he then demands it completely and dead serious, he will become free of the light body in a second and, just as quickly, unconsciously brought to conception on this Earth, and there such a man already stands before you like you and I.
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Knowing this now, do you know whether we, before we came to this Earth, had not made a voluntary contract with the Lord God?
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But God keeps the word unchanged from His eternal order, nothing can change His sense; but whether we also have done the same according to the Law that He Himself gave for all people through Moses and through the original fathers of this Earth and also wrote in the heart of every person, that is another question!
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We will certainly observe it from now on, which I do not doubt; but it is not thanks to our effort but to the single mercy of God. Tell me now whether you are satisfied with my little wisdom!"