Jakob Lorber

Jakob Lorber (22 July 1800 – 23 August 1864) was a Christian mystic and self-professed visionary[citation needed] from the Duchy of Styria who promoted liberal Universalism, and who referred to himself as "God's scribe".

[3] Lorber had musical talents, and learned the violin, taking lessons from the famed virtuoso Paganini, and once giving a concert at La Scala Opera House, Milan.

In 1840, the same year that he claimed to begin hearing the inner voice, Lorber was offered the position of assistant musical director at the theatre in Trieste.

In the Great Gospel of John, the narrator, Jesus, explains that he is the creator of the material universe, which was designed both as a confinement of Satan, and so he could take upon himself the condition of a man.

He does so in a manner similar to the modern theory of evolution all the way up to the point several thousand years ago when Jesus placed Adam upon the Earth, which at the time contained man-like creatures who did not have free will, being simply the most clever of the animals.

[5] Such an account is contrary to the current consensus of biblical scholarship which typically places the authorship of Matthew some years after the resurrection of Jesus Christ and that of John even later.

However, in the Great Gospel of John, the narrator explains this, claiming that there were many writers who described him, including several authors named Matthew, who all wrote similarly over a period of many years.

The German philosopher E. F. Schumacher refers to the New Revelation (NR) in his book "A Guide for the Perplexed" as follows: "They (the books of the NR) contain many strange things which are unacceptable to modern mentality, but at the same time contain such plethora of high wisdom and insight that it would be difficult to find anything more impressive in the whole of world literature.

[11] In one of the sacred books of all the three factions of the Church of Christ with the Elijah Message, Word of the Lord Brought to Mankind by an Angel, Lorber is named as one of the servants of God from the German-speaking area.

[13][14][15] Additionally, some of his statements can be considered anti-semitic,[13][14][15][16] and Lorber was in fact lauded by the anti-semitic proponents of Ariosophy, a form of racial mysticism, during the 1920s, e.g. by Lanz von Liebenfels, who in 1926 called Jakob Lorber "the greatest ariosophic medium of the modern era" (das grösste ariosophische Medium der Neuzeit).

Kurt Hutten, former chairman of the Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen (EZW, an apologetic institution of the Evangelical Church in Germany) has identified Swedenborg and Lorber as recipients of equally valid private revelation.

[22] Andreas Finke, vice-chairman of the EZW, concludes that the content of Lorber's revelations reflect both the period during which they were written down and the knowledge of their author, identifying them as "pious poetry in the best sense of the term, but not divine dictation.