Stranger in his own Land E-Book

Klaus Dietze

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 202

Beschreibung

The Essay deals with messages of divine origin going back to what had been the crucial turning point in world's history. They were given about two centuries ago and kept hidden at first to protect them for a future when valued as the Creator's own genuine words, to be a light in the dark times ahead.

Leseprobe

The Author

With all the expectations, dreams, desires and intentions he had, he found himself living a life he still had to detect the meaning of it. The prospect, as generally stated, of a black hole of nothingness once it came to an end did not add up to what he was looking for. Wasn't there more to it?

When searching for answers, he discovered outlooks much more promising.

The Essay

deals with messages of divine origin going back to what had been the crucial turning point in world's history. They were given about two centuries ago to a humble man devoting many years of his adult life to put them down in writing. Kept hidden at first, they were protected for a future when valued as the Lord's own genuine words, to be a light in the dark times ahead.

Content

Preface

Miracles

Lacking Gratefulness

Purge of a Temple

Spectacular Healing

Wolves in Disguise

Unloved Duty Escaped

Pardon vs. Damnation

Why all the Misery?

Mysteries of the Universe

Uniqueness of Earth

Betrayal in Pre-stage

Women

Twin Sisters in Spirit

Shocking Events at Bethany

Blind Commotion

The Rising

Outlook

Preface

2000 times and more the seasons turned since measuring time began and the years were counted, following the birth of a man like there never lived one before. In the past, people treasured his commemoration but today – who does know more of him than the mere name?

Known better, though, seems to be the Big Bang in the beginning which is said to have started it all, the existence of the universe. The way it was taught in school, it had to be taken for granted. But some-when creeping doubt sneaked in: If it was Big Bang making the world, who in turn caused Big Bang?

By Big Bang, atoms were said to originate, banding together as material, specifically water, an ocean, in which all sorts of substances floated, developing into cells. The cells became amoeba which in progression were the great-grandmothers of all living things on Earth that crept and flew. Finally, out of it came the evolution of a real brain, able to meditate what to think about the matter.

Did one do so, thinking, there was this particular feeling that there must have been a fault in reasoning; something was missing! Or where was it to be seen that raw clusters of matter created warm and beautiful life out of themselves without a creator?

There were other tales, however, which began with the water and the ocean as well but then took a different turn: Everything at first being deserted and empty in a prevailing gloom, the report went on saying: „…and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.“

God? A rumour of ancient times? Anything real? Once, so it seemed, people highly honoured him and the belief in him incited all cultural development, as if being its foundation. But now, when actually was the name to be heard last time? Had it been forgotten or even became a no-word, managing just a bare living in the shadowy interior of old churches? Was God a failure, whose son was known to have come to a bad end long time ago? If there was any reality to his purported almightiness, why had he not, given the known rebelliousness of a stubborn mankind, long since made short work of it?

According to older reports, though, this once did happen, known as the deluge, when the waters of the floodgates of the skies and from the abysses of the earth had washed away the dirt of a misdirected development. Only Noah, the Just, had survived in his ark, swimming into a better future.

There was a fresh beginning afterwards but that had been a long time ago. With reminiscences rather fading so many years after, another deluge seems to be due in the beat-up world of today. It does not necessarily have to be water, fire would do as well, the armoury of annihilation already being installed in many parts of the world. Alternatively, all sorts of flooding were feasible, microorganisms for instance, virtual or real, gone wild and out of control, wreaking havoc everywhere rumour had them to be.

The mystery of being – how to judge its essence independently from all freely offered academic insinuations? Does it make sense to read the original account oneself, the Holy Book, the Bible?

In older days, for such a demand, people were sent to the stakes and burned alive by the thousands and ten-thousands, ordered by the inquisition of an almighty church for crimes of heresy. Thinking for oneself was taboo on life's punishment, and for fifteen centuries the Bible was in a lockdown.

Today it's free as far as access to it is concerned, the New Testament being available to everyone. It contains the original four gospels, but difficulties might arise when trying to understand them in their compressed language. One might wish for upcoming questions to be answered more profoundly, suspecting that there is infinitely more to them than it appears at first sight.

Among the men and women, allowed a glance into divinity's spheres by grace of God, a man, Jakob Lorber, did live in Austria two centuries ago, where he was beckoned to serve as „God's Scribe Servant“, faithfully to record what he received in words given by an inner voice. Living in utmost humbleness, Lorber, almost daily for 24 years in a row, continued his writings out of which, among other scriptures, emerged „The Great Gospel of John“. After he died, his work was protected from being tracked and destroyed by the suspicious church. But eventually, the church losing its influence, it was edited by trusted friends and exists now as the full length recount of Jesus' three years walking on Earth, told by Jesus himself in his own wording.

Are they reminiscences from eternity? Gods gift to his own people – or were they, as non-believers claim, fantasies of a lunatic?

If one gets into it, many pages wait to be read – a challenge, a real rock of a book, consisting of roughly 5000 pages in small print, in eleven volumes. Be it one chapter after the other or pages picked at random – to an open mind each page might be a revelation, never in contradiction to New Testament's comparatively short text.

The messages cover a range a hundredfold wider in comparison to the gospels of the Bible, fully supporting the existing ones, to generate a broader understanding. To a reader who receives them without prejudice, the events, often given in full detail, more and more come to life.

The essence of the holy scripture widely being unknown, ignored, not taken seriously, even ridiculed – the reminder of it might be a guide to a forgotten truth.

1. Miracles

In times the counting of the years began, almost the entire known world was under the rule of the Roman Empire. Its sheer extension was immense and included Palestine, the Holy Land. The Romans, terminating endless controversies and fratricidal wars there, had installed a functioning administration which the former rulers had to conform with, a theocracy of the Pharisees and learned elders of the scriptures, represented by the priesthood of the Temple in Jerusalem.

They only grudgingly might have accepted the rule of the Romans, but what really upset them beyond compare was this vagabond roaming the countryside, Jesus of Nazareth, producing his cheep feats with which he allegedly made the blind seeing and the lame going, causing rebellion among the plain dumb folks believing it. Even if there was some reality in the incoming reports, the only way they could have been performed were fiendish manipulations, for neither was the troublemaker known to be a scholar of their own breed nor as someone being of any significance.

What made things much worse was his pretension to be the Son of God, and thus the Messiah, who, since times of old, was promised to arise. Which was impossible because the Messiah was not imaginable as the shabby son of an old carpenter but as the mightiest king on Earth only, in the glory of an erected shining kingdom for his people. That was the reason Jesus, a stranger in his own land, was persecuted for three years. But until the end, when he surrendered to his enemies out of his own free will, they never got hold of him.

At times, he stayed in places under Roman jurisdiction, not belonging to the sphere of influence of the persecutors. As if called by an inner voice, educated people of Greek and Roman culture met there, doctors, scholars, executives, officers and businessmen. They often had lost faith in the old polytheisms, fetishes of wood and clay representing some Jupiter or Apollo as alleged gods. Many of these men already had the inkling of the only one and true God, and it was Jesus bringing the message to them which the rulers of his own people constantly turned down as a blatant lie, substituting their once genuine belief in the traditions of Moses for new rules made by themselves.

The friendship with the Romans reached back to the time of his birth in Bethlehem. It had been Cornelius, brother of the High Commissioner Cyrenius, ruler over half of Asia and Africa, who as a commander was stationed there to supervise the population census ordered by Rome's emperor. In this function, he met Joseph and Mary, the parents, and was deeply moved by the mystery surrounding them. He had seen the marvel of the incarnation of the godly child at close range and did what he could to help the family along. He saw the humble visit of the Shepherds and the arrival of the Three Kings from the wide ranges of Asia, and the inconceivable disaster sparked by it.

Because shortly afterwards he was confronted with the excessive ravages of King Herod, a local ruler, installed by the Romans under conditions of being a righteous governor. But Herod, fearing the newborn rival when the rumours reached him, turned out to be the opposite, ordering the slaughter of every male infant in the vicinity. The worst excesses of the infamous child murder Cornelius was able to prevent but could not ward them off entirely. As a result, brutal murder was carried out, killing five thousand innocent children.

But the Holy Family itself he was able to protect and safeguard them to the residence of his brother Cyrenius at the seaport of Tyrus. From there, paying a state visit to Egypt by ship, Cyrenius took them along to their exile. He cared for their adequate accommodation and, whenever his state affairs did allow, spent his time with them. He, one of the highest representatives of the Roman Empire, sensed the true ruler of the world in little boy Jesus.

Due to time-consuming duties of governing in a tumultuous world, Cyrenius eventually lost track of the godly child's family but 30 years later the recollection of the encounter made him, his brother Cornelius and other high ranking Romans presume who in the country it was, arousing such a sensation. And this presumption that it was the grown-up Jesus was confirmed when finally they met again.

As men of highest education, many Romans already recognized the truth of Old Testament's religious traditions but ever anew they were repelled by the fanaticism of the priestly caste of the Temple and their wicked laws, oppressing the populace and amassing riches and power for themselves.

Some words might be said about Virgin Mary, Mother of God, as they are told in the Gospel of Jacobus, also written down by Jakob Lorber by grace of the inner voice.

As a little child Mary had been given to the Temple in Jerusalem where she grew up as a „Virgin of the Temple” to the age of fourteen. Then she had to leave the place to be married to a man in due time. Prior to it, Mary was to be accommodated in some congenial household and cared for in chastity and decency. One of the qualified hosts-to-be was Joseph, a direct descendent of King David, even if being a simple carpenter only and an old man, long since widowed. In his modest household his already grown up sons were living.

It was him the task of catering for Mary was assigned to by ordeal. It stirred some confusion, least not with Joseph himself, fearing to be ridiculed by all the young men of the country which had gone to great efforts in this matter themselves. But the ordeal had been distinct. Among the candidates, standing in a circle, it was Joseph a consecrated dove had flown to and settled upon his head, indicating he was the chosen. Even if frustration spread among the others, Mary was given to him in trust.

There, living at his small property, she received Angel Gabriel's annunciation of the conception and birth of Jesus. When in due time her pregnancy became obvious, Joseph made the most bitter accusations because of her unfaithfulness, until he, by her fierce affirmation of her innocence and the appearance of the angel to him as well, realized his suspicion's baselessness. Yet, from the Temple, the worst was to be feared.

There the matter became known by an offended fancier of Mary. She and Joseph were summoned to stand trial in the Temple's court of the High Priests in Jerusalem, being accused of fornication, the most execrable sin, to be sanctioned by capital punishment. They were sentenced to death by drinking the poisonous „Cursed Water“.

Thereafter, three days passed and to everyone's amazement the alleged sinners were not found dead with bloated bellies and torn guts but alive and cheerful. The priests were utmost puzzled and astonished. But they had to acknowledge the fact and let the offenders go free. In punishment of their suspected but unverifiable offence, however, Joseph and Mary were sentenced to orderly being married to each other. Which, on their part, made them praise and thank God for his graciousness and salvation.

Encountering Jesus, people were confronted with experiences they were at a loss to interpret them except as miracles. The gospels are listing some of them: Water transformed into wine, a crowd of thousands fed with a few loafs of bread and some fish, the sick and the crippled healed simultaneously by the hundreds and the dead resurrected. Generations of bible critics, in later times, tried hard to explain them away. But as long as the Holy Scripture in its richness does not get lost they stand for themselves as they did happen .

But, were they anything special? The Lord, Creator of Heaven and Earth in all of eternity, undoubtedly was able to create not only some but countless scores of miracles. Unless he, too, was explained away by the critics.

He, the initiator of the miracles, begged the two disciples skilled in writing, Matthew and John, which accompanied him when travelling, not to record them or at least only little of it because accounts of miracles did not possess any specific sustainability.

Witnesses of miracles the gospels describe went down on their knees in amazement and awe but those being absent, not seeing them with their own eyes, tended not to believe, shrugging off talks of them as fairy-tales. Miracles were only to baffle people, Jesus said.

Unbelievers had their minds boggled when confronted with miracles they inwardly were not ready to except as facts of divine origin. They had to recognize them, yet unendingly brooded over the way they possibly were effectuated.

Beyond them however, were the words of truth in timeless validity, even beauty. They possessed the quality to stay alive and present forever while solitary incidents like miracles were fading memories in the flight of time, less and less remembered when the years went by, until they were not more but faraway legends to those born afterwards, to be believed or not believed.

What really spoke to the hearts were the words of eternal truth. Only they had the potential to be remembered lovingly forever and form adamant convictions.

For people in dire need, however, to relieve their misery, to heal illnesses, still hunger and console sorrow, Jesus surely did let happen a great number miracles, as shown in the Great Gospel of John.

At times they were allowed in public as eye-openers, their performance being delegated to a helper of juvenile appearance. People not knowing him sometimes called him a milksop, first to grow a beard before talking to respectable men. At closer contact, they revised their assessment and preferred not to get too near to him but stay at a safe distance.

By approval of Jesus, for unbelieving contemporaries he transformed rocks into nothing or nothing into rocks. Or into bread. Once he did so into a big fish, which was lashing about with his tail fin so vigorously it threw his new owner onto his back and a stronger man had to struggle to drag it into a water basin. At a similar occasion it was a real donkey out of nothing and the new owner of it was so horror-stricken he immediately passed it on to someone else although the gain would have proven favourable to him.

The helper's true nature, though, was a shooting star of unbearable brightness, whizzing through the skies with the speed of lightning. He had to enwrap himself in shadows to make his presence tolerable to men. It was an angel.

To demonstrate more of it, the angel, as if time did not exist in his world, whisked to remote places in Africa or India in the wink of an eye to bring back specific objects of the region. Same he did from the bottom of the sea. He transformed dry deserts into blossoming orchards or rebuilt crumbling ruins of ancient palaces to new splendour.

Once when a group of peaceful citizens was molested by an hostile military squad, two angels looking like frail adolescents made the soldiers spin around like feathers and even had their weapons to disappear, until finally they just stood there perplexed and aghast, mouth open.

Which could happen to friendly readers of the reports as well. But if ceasing reading prematurely, something substantial might be missed.

Accompanying Jesus to places under Roman administration, the said angel, by the name of Rafael, was asked to show his skill as well, converting the invisible into matter and let matter be converted into spiritual substance, his own body included. Open minded attendees were invited to check his hands and arms. Everything was in place to be touched at: skin and muscles, flesh and bones.

One moment later they were requested to do the same again – and it was nothingness only they grabbed. They reached through the body without sensing any resistance while Rafael continued to stand in front of them with a smile about their consternation. It was enough to make them revise their views of the world.

To them, it was the beginning of a new era and they wished for answers to the many questions they had. Rafael did his best to respond to their queries: Neither on the planet nor in the vastness of the universe, he said, anything like empty space existed, the alleged nothingness being light and energy everywhere, invisible to human eyes though. It was „Ether“, matter not yet awakened, flowing through the world as a source of unending power. Out of it, specific matter of any kind could be created by mental force, or led back to its former invisible status within no time.

Rafael demonstrated whatever was asked for. But for all the power he was exerting he called himself the least servant of his Lord only, among countless scores of other angels.

Although it does not go along with official narratives, evidence of this kind of energy is discovered worldwide in experimental backyard workshops, where they try to exploit it commercially as a source of new energy, technically useable. But to reveal its spiritual dimensions widely still seems to be a task of the future.

When confronted with the issue, high-ranking physicists were not willing to comment on the subject, anxious not to destroy their reputation. On the other hand, they were not happy with their self-created definitions of matter and energy by which the universe can not really be explained. They still are in search for it and Rafael would not be the least able to help them along if he be taken seriously. Which, to non-believers, probably is a thought of absurdity.

More than once Jesus was hard-pressed by his followers to allow miracles in the presence of the Temple's High Priests, to finally get them convinced of his divinity. The answer was a flat No. Religious fanaticism of its worst kind was not overcome that way. Acts of divine origin would be defamed and vilified as black magic, performed in fiendish collaboration with Satan himself. It was to be abhorred and rejected in all of eternity.

2. Lacking Gratefulness

After the return from Egypt Jesus lived with his family in Nazareth, a life seemingly in no way impressive. Grown up, he was employed as a carpenter in his stepfather Joseph's workshop for many years. Everyone in town knew him, without really knowing anything about him. He was considered a good and accurate worker but, for the rest, close-lipped and withdrawn.

Joseph, when asked about it, also had no better answer. As a little child, Jesus had shown many wondrous capabilities and was able to speak already shortly after his birth, amazing people by remarks of deep wisdom. But later on all of it seemed gotten lost until hardly anybody remembered it except Mary, his mother, and his family. Some in town even believed him mentally retarded.

Then, when he was thirty years old, after being baptized in river Jordan, his divine nature all of a sudden began to show. The news quickly spread but were not hailed everywhere, especially not in the vicinity of the synagogue, his immediate neighbourhood. There they were full of black suspicion, the Pharisees, the elders of the synagogue and the learned of the scriptures. A simple, unlearned carpenter stood up against them? Them, the representatives of the lore of thousands of years, from Prime Father Abraham onwards to Moses and Elias and, successively, to the High Priests in Jerusalem.

Provided, there was any truth to the incoming reports at all, it was presumed this sly old fox Joseph, in one way or the other, had his son sent to some obscure black magicians. They might have shown him feats and dirty tricks to rope the dumb folk into believing them. Whatever it was, everywhere this irritating talk sprang up about miraculous healing.

After a journey to Jerusalem, and an ensuing stay in the country of Samaria, Jesus returned to his hometown Nazareth. Because an affront of him in the capital's temple, stirring uneasiness when publicly getting to be known, the priests were anything but in a friendly mood. Yet, with a shock, they had to accept that one of their own respected associates, the principal of a nearby synagogue, Jairus, in an act of desperation ran up to Jesus begging and pleading on his knees to have his fatally ill daughter, dearest in the world to him, healed. Jesus agreed.

Their encounter remained not undetected and an enormous crowd gathered. In the jostle they only grindingly won their way. Before they were able to reach the house of Jairus the girl had died.

Due to old traditions the crying, moaning and paid singing of the laments began right after death. Seeing all the turmoil, Jesus demanded every screecher to leave the house, the girl being asleep only.