Great Gospel of John
The great Gospel of John is a work of the Lorber movement , a Christian - mystical spiritual community based on so-called new revelations .
This ten-volume work with several thousand pages has no historical sources as a basis, but a voice perceived by Jakob Lorber , which introduces itself to him ( Die Haushaltung Gottes ) as Jesus . The great Gospel John assumes that the Lord's favorite disciple is actually the one who wrote the work known as "John's Gospel" in the canon of the New Testament under the direction of Jesus Christ, and further emphasizes that "his" gospel does is closest to what was actually happening at the time. At the same time, this work, especially at the beginning, interprets the Gospel of John verse by verse and explains all the parables , with the emphasis on working out the spiritual aims of the Gospel. In the further course, the focus is mainly on a detailed chronological narration of all events and dialogues.
Jakob Lorber could no longer complete the Great Gospel of John during his lifetime, but Leopold Engel wrote the work to the end, referring to the same spiritual source (11th volume). This only book that Engel wants to have received from Jesus, although he was not sure himself, but curiously left it to the readers whether he was really addressed by Jesus, is controversial among the Lorberians, but is mostly tolerated.
Lorber friends appreciate the great gospel of John, among other things, the very comprehensive reports about Jesus, which depict Jesus' life much more vividly than the short biblical gospels can. However, according to critics, the statements of Jesus seem more like the current opinion of Lorber and less like the view of a Jewish rabbi during the Roman occupation. Since the texts have no historical sources as a basis, their value ultimately depends on how one assesses the voice that Lorber wants to have heard from the heart.
manuscript
The almost completely collected manuscripts of the Lorber writings are kept today by the Lorber publishing house. According to the publisher of the Lorber writings, Christoph Friedrich Landbeck (1840–1921), the manuscript for “The Great Gospel of John” was sold by the mysterious “so-called daughter Jakob Lorbers” for 2000 guilders in Vienna to a friend of Lorber. In 1909 it was sent to Landbeck free of charge by Toni Hedwig, who lived in Mediasch and who worked as a so-called father's medium. Hedwig had received and kept the original in a mailing addressed to his brother from a person he did not know "from far away".
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Individual evidence
- ^ "The great Gospel of John Volume 11", Leopold Engel, 8th edition, foreword, Lorber Verlag, ISBN 3-87495-223-1
- ↑ "The Truth Seeker", CF Landbeck, 1920, page 38
- ↑ “The Original Manuscript Collection of the Neu-Salems-Gesellschaft” by Fritz Enke, Das Wort 6/1928, page 137