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He is referenced in a book I am currently reading, and I have never heard of this man before.

http://www.jakoblorber.co.nz/Extracts.html

Has anyone here studied his work?

Looks like religious silliness to me.

passthrough wrote:He is referenced in a book I am currently reading, and I have never heard of this man before.

http://www.jakoblorber.co.nz/Extracts.html

Has anyone here studied his work?

Beh, another Christian apologist.

Arrrhh! Consign thou to the dregs of the world I shall!

Dan Rowden wrote:Arrrhh! Consign thou to the dregs of the world I shall!

Very well. However, who is this guy? The others he listed were equally as obscure. Perhaps the reason for banishment to the world realm is the very reason they are obscure, but it still affords me no explanation.

I only scanned a bit of it last night because I am still reading the book that referenced the guy and just wanted to know who he was, which is why the query here...but now you have my curiousity totally peaked.

Do you feel this same way toward E. F. Schumacher? If so, why?

passthrough wrote:
Very well. However, who is this guy?

A Christian mystic type, leading a simple, detached life. Comparable with Emanuel Swedenborg and Jakob Boehme perhaps.

I've read some of his 'translation' of the gospel of John and he seems quite close to the Gnostic view on the matter. Just as with his 'scientific' predictions I suspect this Lorber bloke just wasn't very conscious were his 'inspiration' came from. Early 19th century these ideas, gnostic as well the science fiction ones, were not so unheard of as some of his followers want to make you believe. Even if he deduced himself some of the esoteric meaning, it doesn't mean Jesus was talking to him. He was afraid to own his own thoughts perhaps?

Do you feel this same way toward E. F. Schumacher? If so, why?

What does Schumacher has in common with Lorber in your view?

Diebert van Rhijn wrote:What does Schumacher has in common with Lorber in your view?

While on a holiday a couple of weeks ago, I ran across one of his books, A Guide for the Perplexed, in an antique/used bookstore. The title of the book grabbed me, so, on a lark, I picked it up to glance through it. It was interesting enough to purchase and now I am reading it.

Schumacher made reference to Lorber and a couple of other obscure, yet unique, individuals as it related to a point he was trying to make defining his second field of knowledge, which is knowing the "invisible" side of others.

Those who are genuinely interested - not in the attainment of powers but in their own inner development - will study the lives and works of people who have put themselves under the control of "Higher Mind" and thus broken out of our ordinary confinement of time and space. There is no lack of examples from all ages and all parts of the world. It will serve our present purposes to have a quick look at three recent cases where the higher possibilities of the human being have manifested themselves almost under our very eyes.

Schumacher's views are somewhat critical of scientism. He has some interesting arguments. However, after having Google translate some web-sites related to Lorber, he may have missed the mark with this guy...based on the criticism. His family seems to be attempting to cash in on the novelty of his writings, which goes against the very thing Schumacher was praising him for.

I'm not finished with the book yet, so it is too soon for me to argue his theory one way or the other. The comment on Lorber wasn't really important to the point he was making, so I'm not holding that against him. Being raised Catholic - though not practicing now, I've heard of some pretty strange things, like inverting a statue of St. Joseph in your yard to help the house sell faster and the visions of various folks that are now shrines, but I've never heard of Lorber.