Jakob Lorber
The neutrality of this article is disputed.Jakob Lorber considered himself "God's scribe". Over a period of 24 years, he wrote manuscripts equivalent to 10,000 pages in print, expecting and receiving no financial reward. On March 15, 1840, he heard a voice from the region of his heart, and began to write. Lorber himself was unable to understand many of the things he was told by the Inner Voice, and yet wrote illuminating insights on the nature of atoms, elementary particles, electricity, the tremendous energy potential of small matter, and so forth, long before such material was discovered by science. His material stands the test of time, and science is still uncovering information revealed candidly in his books. While his insights into health and science give his work external credibility, the nature of God, love, and the eternities gives his work internal credibility. For example, Lorber's Great Gospel of John does not contradict the Bible, only rather giving it much more depth in some areas.
A brief biography by his friend von Leitner reveals that Lorber was a simple, uncomplicated, harmless person. He was born on July 22, 1800, in a small village named Kanischa, in Austria. He was trained as a village teacher, and had some musical talent, even taking lessons from the virtuoso violinist Paganini, and once giving a concert as a violinist at the La Scala Opera House in Milan. Lorber was offered the position of assistant musical director by the theater in Trieste in 1840, but declined and chose a life of solitude upon hearing direction from the Inner Voice. The Inner Voice is clearly the voice of Jesus Christ, who is God.
The Great Gospel of John is about 2,000 pages of remarkably detailed first-person narrative of Jesus's three-year ministry based on the Gospel of John. This narrative results in a description of Jesus Christ that leaves no doubt that he is God, Creator of the universe, and that the books of John and Matthew were written while the events occurred; for instance, Jesus specifically told Matthew to take notes during the Sermon on the Mount. Such revelations go contrary to the popular historical record, which typically place the authorship of Matthew a couple dozen years after the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Lorber writes such facts in an unpretentious manner, woven into a deep revealment of freedom, love, and mercy. This makes a work whose effect is quite compelling, and he is regarded as one of the great mystics.
Lorber was open and friendly regarding his labor of transcribing revelations from God, and found himself involved in small intrigues designed to prove that he was a fake. The wife of one of his friends was certain that Lorber had studied books and was pretending to write by the Inner Voice, but never could find the scientific books which he supposedly was hiding. She did find one book when she searched - the Bible.
Prior to the industrial revolution, Lorber wrote of the age of technology, when men would invent wireless communication and fly across the oceans, produce machines like living, thinking men that could perform all human tasks -- and thereby many human hands will become idle and the stomachs of the poor and jobless will go hungry. He wrote of the iron wagons and roads on which they would be travelling faster than an arrow, the burning of fossil fuels, air pollution, deforestationa and the drastic consequences thereof. He wrote of nuclear devastation, and described the earth's outer atmosphere having a "bluish shimmer", and wrote that the surface of the moon is not solid, but very loose "like congealed foam of the ocean" which approximates evidence gathered by the astronauts. At one point, Lorber describes the humble fly in intimate detail, with information about its role in metabolizing subatomic-sized particles emanating from the sun, which science has not yet discovered. He foretold the asteroid belt, which he said was the broken pieces of a burst planet, Mallona. The Milky Way he described as a cosmic unity and in its total form as lens-shaped, which was unknown to astronomy at the time. Even though only a few pages of his manuscript was published during his lifetime, he accurately predicted that it would all be published, and studied throughout the world, as it is today.
Lorber's emphasis on spiritual reality being more important than physical, and simple position that the wisdom of God is far greater than any modern science, makes it easy to grapple with his assertion that the Sun is inhabited, or that the planet Saturn is inhabited. Both of these can be perfectly true in the spirit world with little "material evidence". In this manner, Lorber's writing is a work which requests faith or belief in the reader on some points, yet it always circles around love, salvation, and freedom as its central message, so the labor is not as strenuous as it may seem to readers unfamiliar with mystics and revelation.
The Great Gospel of John clarifies the importance of our free will and our activities motivated by love for continued spiritual progress. Heaven and Hell are already within us as conditions, depending if we live in harmony or contrary to the divine order. Lorber's work is so intimate and detailed that it has the effect of setting a reader free from much dogma--continually surprising, there simply is too much new information to easily condense into small repeatable soundbites which are the essence of dogma.
Lorber's work is divided into several books, and in aggregate is called The New Revelation.