thumb|jakob lorber. jakob lorber (22 july 1800 â 24 august 1864) was a christian mystic and visionary  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 part of lorber's writings have also been translated into more than 20 languages (according to the website of the lorber publisher) and the world-wide spread adherents do not gather in an institutionalized church, but usually continue to belong to their previous christian denomination. ==biography== jakob lorber was born in kaniÅ¾a, a small village in the jahring parish, duchy of styria (now kaniÅ¾a pri jarenini in lower styria, slovenia) to a peasant family, michael lorber and his wife maria, nÃ©e tautscher. he was trained as a village teacher. a brief biography by his friend karl gottfried ritter von leitner indicates that lorber was an uncomplicated person.leitner, karl gottfried ritter von he was observed while writing by well-educated men in the city of graz, such as dr. carl-friedrich zimpel, the mayor of graz, anton hÃ¼ttenbrenner, his brother the composer anselm hÃ¼ttenbrenner, the poet and secretary to the estates karl gottfried von leitner, dr. anton kammerhuber, leopold cantily, pharmacist of graz, and others. these men observed him writing and verified his simple life.ist lorber ein echter prophet gottes? lorber was open and friendly regarding his transcriptions yet found himself involved in small intrigues designed to prove that he was a fake. for instance, the wife of one of his friends was certain that lorber had studied the material he was pretending to hear from the inner voice, but she never found the scientific books she had supposed he was hiding, eventually finding his only research material to be a single copy of the bible.kurt eggenstein: 'the prophet j. lorber predicts coming catastrophies and the true christianity' he had musical talent and learned the violin, taking lessons from the virtuoso violinist paganini, and once giving a violin concert at the la scala opera house in milan. in 1840âthe same year he claimed to begin hearing the inner voiceâlorber was offered the position of assistant musical
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