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Neanderthal Man: A Scientific Revelations from the Spirit |
The Great Gospel
of John
Jakob Lorber
6 Volumes
2113 pages
Cost: $99.95
The New Revelation's Statements about Primitive Man: The Neanderthals
The debate over whether
human beings came into being from a Divine act of Creation
or, evolved through an evolutionary process is not over.
Neither theory is scientifically provable. Some will say that
"creation" is a simple belief yet the proof used to postulate
pure evolution is based on supposition and speculation. These suppositions
are
subject to the subsequent bits of information that have not yet
been discovered.
Supposition, by its very definition is an uncertainty. If
supposition is the primary premise of a theory, that theory
cannot be conclusive but remains merely an unproven hypothesis.
Note: The writing highlighted in "bold" are the actual excerpts from Jakob Lorber's New Revelation.
Lorber not only anticipated the knowledge of astronomers and nuclear
physicists in an amazing way, but also some of the findings of other
scientific disciplines which did not yet exist in the middle of last
century, namely, paleontology, the science that treats of the ancient
life of the globe or of fossil organisms, either plants or animals, and
also anthropology, the science of man, including the study of his origins.
In the year 1856 an unusually shaped human skull was found in
Neanderthal, a valley near Düsseldorf, Germany. This skull was larger than
that of present day man, the forehead was slanting backwards and above the
eyes it had thick, bony protuberances, similar to those of today's big apes.
Others were also found but no conclusions as to their link to human beings
were made then. Today they are still desperately seeking out a species of
anthropoid that could be called the missing link. However, during a hundred
years the much sought missing link was not found.
The human beings that exist today display refinement of features and
abilities that are not evident in the fossil remains of the primitive men.
The New Revelation refers to the present day races of human beings as
adamitic man. "Only into adamitic man", we read
in the New Revelation, "there flows a spiritual
perception, the sensing of a power which animates the soul enabling it to
recognize and seek its Creator. And that is the divine spark implanted in
the
soul as spirit." (Gt. G. XI, 10, 6) "No
achievement is possible with- out God." (Household of God. I, 116, 8)
"A worldly person, however, is unable to see the
active power." (Gt. G. X, 173, 9).
In the New Revelation primitive men are called 'pre-adamites'. Some information is given about their
appearance and
abilities. However, to begin with, the New Revelation explains that the
creation of the world in six days as described in Moses' Genesis must not be
taken literally as the churches until not so long ago induced people to
believe. In the Great Gospel, vol. VIII, chapter 72 the six earth formation
periods are mentioned and the duration of each period given with "a great many million years". In the third
period mention is made of the saurians in a paraphrastic way:
"Vegetation is becoming much
richer and of giant
proportions, and the same also applies to the animals." Towards the
end of the fourth period again
"cataclysms took place
burying most of what at that time you would have described as creatures. In
the ground of your earth you find many a remnant of this period already
quite distinct from the products of the first three periods."
From the start of the "fifth period it took more than a thousand times a
thousand years until all suitably situated ground was completely ready for a
new creation of a great number of different plants - such as grasses, herbs,
bushes and trees - as well as a variety of animals and pre-adamitic men."
This description of the "new creation of animals
and plants" is of particular interest. Modern research confirms the
abrupt disappearance and - after a very long interval - the sudden coming
into existence of new species of animals and plants. The complete cessation
of life contradicts the theory of a continuous evolutionary process, i.e. it
is unthinkable that animals and plants were brought forth through mutations
without a divine act of creation.
The thesis advanced by materialistic scientists teaches that all new
forms have developed out of themselves. But because of the great interval,
the deep, separating ravine, this autogenesis has been deprived of its
foundation. The new cannot be explained from the structure of that which
preceded it. The New Revelation makes it quite clear that development does
take place in stages, but this does not mean an unbroken sequence in
evolution. "A blind force", we read in the New
Revelation, "has never yet brought forth even a moss
plant." (Gt. G. VI, 87, 7) "All life is of such
a nature that it can constantly change and grow thanks to My continuous
influence." Further we read in connection with the fifth earth
period: "With the beginning of this period the earth
is brought into a regular orbit around the sun. Already day and night
alternate regularly. Nevertheless there are still many changes since the
variations of the earth's poles are still considerable."
In the description of the fifth Earth period also primitive man is
mentioned for the first time. In the Great Gospel vol. VIII, chapter 72 the
following information is given: "With these primitive
men there is still no tilling of the soil, but they do already have
livestock. They lead a primitive nomadic life, do not wear clothes nor do
they build houses or even huts. They prepare for themselves a kind of nest
on the thick branches of trees to live and sleep in and they also hoard
foodstuffs which they gradually use up. When it gets cold they move to
warmer regions. They do not have a language of the kind that is now used
among people; but they have more articulate sounds, signs and gestures than
even the most highly developed animals and can communicate with each other concerning their needs.
Although this
fifth evolutionary period lasted for a thousand times thousand years, the
human race of that period continued its unvaried nomadic life and no
cultural progress was noticeable."
"The colour of their still rather hairy skin was
between dark and light grey. Only in the South there existed also hairless
tribes. They spread in the lowlands until the time of Adam. At the time of
Adam, with whom the sixth earth period begins, once more great cataclysms
took place on parts of the earth through fire and water, and as a result the
pre-adamitic race became practically extinct."
Lorber speaks of the existence of primitive men during "very many millions
of years." Until recently
scientists believed that the existence of primitive man started with the
Quaternary period and these men lived only during a period of approximately 1
million years. That this assumption was wrong and primitive man had actually
lived already in the Tertiary period became clear in 1966 thanks to the
results achieved in his research by the renowned anthropologist Dr. Louis
Leaky. The fossils found by Dr. Leaky are many millions 30 of years old.
Some finds of bones of pre-adamitic men have an age of up to 20 million
years. Thereby Lorber's statements have been fully confirmed also in this
respect.
In addition to general information about the pre-adamites Lorber also
gives some details which, too, have been confirmed as correct in scientific
literature. Thus, for instance, there is the following description of one
particular race of pre-adamites: "As men they were
giants of great strength, and they had a set of teeth so strong that they
could use them as a cutting tool" (Gt. G. VIII, 72, 17).
The German paleontologist von Konigswald was shown in 1925 in China teeth
which "in their shape resembled human teeth"
They were so big that judging by their size the whole Gigantopithecus must
have measured about three meter fifty. Also the finds made in Eastern Java
in the years 1939 and 1941 pointed to the fact that primitive men had lived
there who were real giants. Of Dr. Leaky's numerous finds, the skull found
in 1959, the "Nutcracker man" - so called because of his unusually strong
teeth - is the most famous.
In the "Household of God" vol. III, p. 453 there is another detail, which
was received by Lorber in 1864: "As regards the
pre-adamitic or brute men, fossil remains of them can still be found in some
places. Among all the animal species they possessed the greatest instinctive
intelligence and built themselves here and there rather uniform dwellings.
They also filled some of the narrower spots in brooks and rivers with stones
as a kind of bridge for crossing them. Frequently they continued this work
until in a rough terrace-like structure ten or more such bridges were
formed. ...These men erected also the walls of which there are still traces
found today and which are considered very ancient."
Unlikely as it may sound, such walls were found. One of the best known
German anthropologists, Prof. Gerhard Heberer, tells on the origin
of man about the Australopithecines .that the A-type of these pygmy-like
small beings "were capable of building small walls" which they-it is
suspected-used as windbreaks.
Is it surprising that the friends of Lorber were unable to find in
Austria publisher willing to publish Lorber's writings? In view of the
conception of their time people could only regard the messages of this true
prophet as phantasmagorical. If Lorber's work had become widely known at that
time it would no doubt have been subjected to devastating criticism. From
the perspective of our present time where we are even no longer particularly
impressed by the flights to the moon and have got used to the immense
dimensions of the universe, Lorber's above mentioned statements are to us
foregone conclusions, since they are taught to all students at secondary
schools as the results of scientific research.
There is a lot more information like this
throughout the New Revelation writings.
