The Childhood of Jesus Jacob Lorber New Jerusalem House, Salt Lake City, Utah
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The Childhood of Jesus:
A Work of the Holy Spirit: A Modern Rendition by the Inner Word of the Life of the Child Jesus from the Sign to Joseph and Mary to the Child Wonders in Nazereth by the Prophet from Graz (Austria)
by Jacob Lorber
Published by New Jerusalem House, Salt Lake City, Utah (1982)
Condition:
Excellent Softcover Book! The binding is tight and all 402 pages within are bright white with NO WRITING, UNDERLINING, HIGH-LIGHTING, RIPS, TEARS, BENDS OR FOLDS! It has just minor cover wear and a small professionally repaired tear on the bottom front cover, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled and packaged with care! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking!
About the Book:
This book takes the reader on an incredible journey with the Christ Child from His birth in a humble setting, to His sojourn in Egypt and return to Nazareth, and finally to His three days in the temple, where His teachings were so profound as to astonish all who were in attendance. At each stage of Jesus' life, Jakob Lorber is able to introduce the many relationships that comprise Jesus' family and friends and how the Christ Child, from infant to young boy, taught lessons of love, forgiveness, and mercy to them. Not only His words, but His miracles and acts of power, bear witness to the divinity and Lordship of the Christ. In these little-known and forgotten years of His Childhood that Lorber has illuminated, readers will be strengthened in their faith and also gain new insights into scriptures that the Christ Child uses in His teachings in the temple. An absolute must-read for old and young alike.
About author, Jacob Lorber:
Jakob Lorber (22 July 1800 – 23 August 1864) was a Christian mystic and visionary[citation needed] from the Duchy of Styria, who promoted liberal Universalism. He referred to himself as "God's scribe". He wrote that on 15 March 1840 he began hearing an "inner voice" from the region of his heart and thereafter transcribed what it said. By the time of his death 24 years later he had written manuscripts equivalent to more than 10,000 pages in print.
His writings were published posthumously as amounting to a "New Revelation", and the contemporary "Lorber movement" forms one of the major neo-revelationist sects, mostly active in German-speaking Europe, although parts of Lorber's writings have also been translated into more than 20 languages (according to the website of the Lorber Publisher). Its adherents have not formed a sect or cult, but rather continue in their denominations.
One main point of criticism of Lorber's works was the use of the first person as if the writings were dictated by Jesus Christ himself. Some statements can be considered anti-semitic, and Lorber was in fact noted by the anti-semitic proponents of "Ariosophy" racial mysticism during the 1920, e.g. by Lanz von Liebenfels, who in 1926 published on Jakob Lorber as "the greatest ariosophic medium of the modern era" (das grösste ariosophische Medium der Neuzeit) Then again it is said in the books of Lorber, that salvation comes to all men from the Jews, and that one should in all truth return to Judaism and that the God of the Jews is the only true, eternal God. It is also said to be the will of God or Jesus that all men should be friends, whether they are Jews or gentiles.
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. Official statements of the EZW are more skeptical, assuming psychological explanations for Lorber's revelations. EZW points to a 1966 Berne dissertation by Antoinette Stettler-Schär which diagnosed Lorber with paranoid schizophrenia. This diagnosis has been dismissed by Bernhard Grom, who diagnoses self-induced hallucination. 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."
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