John the Great Gospel - Volume 3: Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching by Jakob Lorber

by Jakob Lorber

Jakob Lorber (1800-1864) This humble man, living in Graz (Austria) as a music teacher, performing violist and composer, received at the age of forty through the Inner Word the calling as "God's Scribe" which he obeyed to the end of his days with unshakable faith. As a result of this divine inspiration, he left us a unique literature of cosmic magnitude and vastness which deals with the basic themes of all The nature of God, the universe and man and their reciprocal relations, providing a really comprehensive answer to mankind's age-old questions as to the whence, whither and why of life. In the centre of this grandiose picture of the world, from the first beginning stands "The Great Gospel of John" in 10 volumes which, fully based on the values of Christian faith, offers an immense extension and spiritualization of Christian revelation. Jakob Lorber's universal spiritual revelations also open up great possibilities for a sensible co-operation between religion and science, a synthesis of experiences of the heart and reasoned knowledge.

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First published June 6, 2011

About the author

Jakob Lorber (22 July 1800 – 24 August 1864) was a Christian mystic and visionary from the Duchy of Styria, who promoted liberal Universalism. He referred to himself as "God's scribe". He wrote that on 15 March 1840 he began hearing an 'inner voice' from the region of his heart and thereafter transcribed what it said. By the time of his death 24 years later he had written manuscripts equivalent to more than 10,000 pages in print.

His writings were published posthumously as amounting to a "New Revelation", and the contemporary "Lorber movement" forms one of the major neo-revelationist sects, mostly active in German-speaking Europe, although part of Lorber's writings have also been translated into more than 20 languages (according to the website of the Lorber Publisher) and the world-wide spread adherents do not gather in an institutionalized church, but usually continue to belong to their previous Christian denomination.