!!!Lorber, Jakob

b. Kanischa-Jahring (Kaniža-Jarenina, Slovenia), July 22, 1800, 
d. Graz, Styria, Aug. 24, 1864, musician and  theosophical 
writer. Initially teacher, then embarked on a promising career as a 
musician (until 1840); subsequently had a religious experience which 
caused him to espouse a "New Revelation", the teachings of which were 
propounded and disseminated by the New Salem Society and the 
Jakob-Lorber-Gesellschaft founded in 1921 at Bietigheim, Germany, in 
its journal "Das Wort".

!Works
Briefwechsel Jesu mit Abgarus Ukkama von Edessa, 1851; Erde und 
Mond, 1852; Die Haushaltung Gottes, 3 vols., 1852; Das Grosse 
Evangelium Johannis, 5 vols., 1871-75; R. Blum, 
2 vols., 1898; Selected writings (Der Herr spricht ...), 1951.

!Literature
W. Lutz, Die Gottesbotschaft J. Lorbers, 1924; idem, 
Die Grundfragen des Lebens in der Schau des Offenbarungswerkes 
J. Lorbers, %%sup 3/%1979; M. Poehlmann, L.-Bewegung, 1994.


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