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The Great Gospel of John Volume 9

Jakob Lorber was born on 22 July 1800, in a small place called Kanischa, near the lower Styrian country town Marburg, today´s Maribor in Slovenia. He attended teacher's college and primary school course, after which he didn 't immediately receive an appropriate position. This prompted him to intensively continue his musical studies, which consisted of composing, teaching the violin, providing singing and violin lessons, composing and occasionally giving a concert. During these years, Jakob Lorber followed with great enthusiasm his spiritual inclination, diligently studying the Bible as well as the works of men who followed the "inward path", among others such mystics as Justinus Kerner, Jung-Stilling, Swedenborg, Jakob Böhme, and Johann Tennhardt. Unexpectedly, at the beginning of 1840,the theatre in Triest offered him a position as second orchestra conductor. But on the morning of 15 March 1840, he experienced something, which gave his life a different direction. He clearly heard a Voice in his heart which ordered him to: " Get up, take your pen and write! " He abandoned all travel preparations and obediently sat down and wrote on paper what the mysterious voice dictated. It was t

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