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About the moon
1st May 1841
Julie H. asked: “What is the moon? Are there people like here? In response to the question, Jakob Lorber received a comprehensive opening about the moon on this and the following days.
[1] So that you can fully understand the moon and it’s habitability, you must know that the moon is actually only on the "moon" side facing the planet (earth). On the opposite side, however, it is not "moon", but a very solid part of the world.
[2] So what is "moon", is not solid, but very loose, almost like a somewhat solid seafoam, whose firmer parts protrude like mountains, while the softer parts are sunken like niches and funnels towards the center of the whole world-body.
[3] In some of the depressions there is still atmospheric air (which cannot escape), which, seen through strong telescopes, looks almost like water. All high points, as well as the less deep funnels, however, have absolutely no atmospheric air, but only ether, as it is found in the free spaces between the sun and the planets.
[4] This side of the moon is therefore also inhabited by no organic being, but it's inhabitants are of spiritual kind. These spiritual inhabitants were in the life of the body pure world-addicts and are now banished there for improvement, so that they can still sufficiently "get drunk" on the world in this way.
[5] When, after a considerable time, they realize that the "worldly affairs" does not bear fruit and they lend an ear to the teachers sent there, the willing ones are immediately led from there to a higher, more blissful level of freedom.
[6] But the less obedient ones will be again dressed with bodies on the "earth" of the moon (i.e. on the side turned away from the planet) and have to get along there very poorly and miserably. They firstly have to fight there with the greatest cold and darkness; secondly, however, then also with unbearable heat. Because there the night lasts almost fourteen full earth-days and just as long also again the day. Towards the end of each night it becomes as cold there as on earth at the north pole. And around the middle and towards the end of the day it becomes so hot, that no living being on the surface can stand it.
[7] These inhabitants, as well as all other organic beings (of the opposite side), dwell there in the ground. In this subterranean dwelling they have to spend more than half of the day as well as more than half of the night. Therefore, there are no houses and cities, as with you, but the dwellings are in the depths of the earth, here and there also in mountain gorges and caves.
[8] There are no trees that want to bear fruit, but only root crops, such as potatoes, beets, carrots, etc. These crops are planted at the beginning of the day and are fully ripe by the end of the day.
[9] At the beginning of the night's twilight, the people come out of their caves, harvest these fruits and immediately bring them to their underground dwellings, where they then feed throughout the night time, as well as throughout the following day.
[10] Of the domestic animals, only a kind of earth sheep is to be found, which is to these inhabitants what the reindeer is to the Northerners. There are also in the rivers and lakes, which are quite common on the Moon-earth, a lot of aquatic animals, as well as some small species of birds, not unlike your
sparrows, as well as whole armies of insects and other one-, two-, three- and four-footed terrestrial animals, whose purpose and more detailed description you will hear on another occasion. For now, what has been said, is enough for you!
[11] But be especially beware, My beloved ones, lest you also become inhabitants of this miserable body of the world one day! For this yellow shimmering schoolhouse of life is a very laborious school building! And it would be better to die on earth fourteen times in one day than to live there only for one day; for the inhabitants there are much worse off than those buried here in the cemeteries. For these do not know that they are buried. But the inhabitants of the moon must live (consciously) in their graves, are buried there also often in their underground dwellings either by collapses or by sudden water floods.
[12] As for still further remarkable phenomena both of the moon-earth and it's inhabitants, so I will announce this to you at a next opportunity. For now, however, think about what has been said and pay special attention that you recognize and use the spring of your life well – so you will see even on the moon, when it is fully revealed before you, a very significant sign of the Son of Man in the sky! Amen.
[13] This say I to you, now coming on the clouds of heaven! Amen, Amen, Amen.