Shortly after his ordination, Greber was instrumental in providing help to the poor and to the sick in the Hunsrueck,  a rural,  mountainous section with poor soil and whose inhabitants were mostly small farmers.  Greber became aware of their hardships with disease,  primarily tuberculosis,  and arranged for the training of young,  qualified women to become nurses at the nearest hospitals.  Greber possessed a knowledge of natural healing methods and used herbs and natural remedies to cure the diseased.  In a period of a few short years,  tuberculosis was nearly eradicated among the inhabitants of the Hunsrueck.

     During World War 1, Greber felt the need to transport those of the Hunsrueck,  who were starving from lack of food,  to Holland where there was an abundance of food.  After much prayer, without the help of the Church and State, who felt his plan could not work, Greber transported children in groups of 75-100 to Holland.  Greber selected the neediest children first,  regardless of their religious background.  He was able to transport  more than 14,000 children from his area,  the Hunsrueck,  to Holland.  At times,  when money was short,  Greber financed the transport with his personal income.  He founded a self-help organization,  Hilfsbund,  that contintued to provide help to the poor and sick after the war in 1918.

     Greber, with God's help, was also able to protect his village from marauding looters after the war.  In one instance, he was inspired to direct members of his parish to keep watch at street corners as they stood ready with clubs to fend off the looters.  Another episode involved a German soldier who held Greber at gun point.  The German soldier put the end of his rifle in Greber's face.  Greber stood with a rifle pointing directly to his face and the soldier pulled the trigger, again and again and again.  The hammer of the gun did indeed click on each occassion but no bullet was jettisoned.  Finally, the soldier became frightened, threw the gun to the ground and fled.  Greber then reached for the gun, held it in the air, pulled the trigger once and only then did it fire.  God had spared his life.

The picture to the left is of Johannes Greber (standing in the middle with right hand in his coat) surrounded by his siblings during Greber's silver anniversary celebration as a Roman Catholic Priest in Kell in 1925.  Late in the summer of 1923, Greber was visited by a parishoner who urged Greber to attend a  prayer meeting that the parishoner was in the habit of attending.  A prayer meeting--sounds appropriate for a Catholic priest to be a part of.  The parishoner, however, described what went on during the prayer meetings: a young farm boy with an elementary school education would often lapse into a state of trance to make way for a spirit to enter into him.  The spirit would then make use of the farm boy's organs for speech and "impart wonerful tidings to it's hearers."  The messages exceeded far above and beyond that of the intellectual capacity of the boy as well as the knowledge of the others who were present for the prayer meeting.  Initially, Greber would have nothing of it.  He dismissed such things as quackery and charlatanism from what he had read of it in the newspapers.  Greber was also concerned about his position in the community.  A Catholic priest who attends sittings for communicating with spirits, popularly knows as seances, might run the risk of making himself look ridiculous.  The parishoner kept urging Father Greber to at least sit in and observe, ask questions in order to ascertain the veracity of the proceedings.  Greber relented, but only at the last moment while still remaining skeptical.  

     What Greber expected to expose as a piece of charlantry and fraud turned out to be an encounter with one of God's high spirit messengers.  The spirit's words left Greber speechless and awed.  This was no kind of conversation one has with a little farm boy--it certainly wasn't the farm boy speaking from himself, whom Greber had become acquainted with before the meeting took place:  this speech is coming from that farm boy's head?  Impossible.  The episode left an indelible impression on the otherwise very skeptical, very cautious, and very Roman Catholic Johannes Greber.  After continued attendance for the next two and a half years, Greber was given permanent leave from the Catholic Church to tend full time to his self-help organization.  God had given him a harmonious leave for a higher direction; (he was never excommunicated).

         In 1929, Greber emigrated to the United States where he started a number of prayer groups in and around New York city.  He evetually settled in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he conducted prayer meetings and began a church,  accompanied by many healings of attendees,  that occurred through his agency as a manifestation of the holy spirit world through him. If the number of people healed were accounted for, it would fill a book.  He began work on a book that chronicled his initial experience and his decision to proceed with spirit communication: Der Verkehr mit der Geisterwelt (New York, NY: Macoy, 1932).  An English translation was also published in 1932, Communication with the Spirit World Of God: Its Laws and Purpose. Personal Experiences of a Catholic Priest.  The English translation was prepared by George Knoblach.

     Greber also put his Greek skills to use and, along with his link to the holy spirit world, made a translation of the New Testament.  Greber's translation was first rendered into German, then quickly into English.  The Greek text used for his translation was the bilingual text Codex Bezae, in both Greek and Latin.  At the time of Greber's translation, Bezae was the oldest extant Greek text of the New Testament.  Bezae, however, had major gaps, for only the four gospels and Acts are found there.  As a translation of Codex Bezae, the English version of Greber's translation is noted in a monograph of one of biblical studies' most eminent New Testament text critics, Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (3rd enlarged edition; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) p. 50 n. 2.  In the Introduction of his New Testament translation, pp. 5-16, Greber chronicles his making of this translation as well as delineating with clear insight the short comings of ancient books to preserve truth communicated to ages past.  Such was also lamented by the author of 4 Ezra 14 who realized the fact that the written word of God had been burned. The only way to retrieve that word once more is from the spirit world of God itself:

"This is your friend Johannes Greber.  What I have taught you all these years was the truth.  In all that you do (in your life?) put God first."         

If this incident is the truth, then in all likelihood, Lafollete Becker was misguided by a lying spirit who wanted to stifle the Foundation.  To that end, the evil spirit was successful.  But this website, along with the reprinting of Greber's book by Jalan  (Amazon.com ), its availability on the Internet along with all of the older editions (some with an inscription by Greber himself), as well as a new, fresh translation of the German second edition made by Joseph Greber and Elsa Lattey that is availabe on this webpage as an Adobe pdf file (see above, "Click Here") has made good on what the evil spirit world, through Becker as an unwitting instrument, could not stifle.

**I earned the MA in 2000 in Biblical Studies and the Ph.D. in 2006 in Biblical Studies from The Catholic University of American in Washington, D.C.  My principal areas of study were Hebrew, Greek, History of the Greek language (from Linear B to the present), Aramaic, Syriac, and Akkadian with training in the historical-critical method and the exegetical-literary-textual analysis of biblical Hebrew and Greek texts in their historical setting.  My professors were Joseph A. Fitzmyer (Dead Sea Scrolls, Acts of the Apostles, Romans), Frank T. Gignac (Greek), Michael Patrick O'Connor (Hebrew and Akkadian), Douglas Gropp (Hebrew poetry, Aramaic, Dead Sea Scrolls), David Johnson (Syriac), Raymond F. Collins (1 Corinthians; dissertation director), Frank Moloney (Gospel of Mark, Gospel of John), Frank Matera (New Testament Theology), Alexander Di Lella (Old Testament Theology, Daniel),  Christopher Begg (Deuteronomonistic History), and Joseph Jensen (Isaiah).

This site is meant primarily for those who are looking for a more meaningful perspective on why life is the way that it is and on the chaos that is known today as "Christianity."  The impact of the Greber book on my life required me to balance objective, critical scholarship with an intuitive insight that can only come from what seems to be a guidance of sorts from what may be that which the earliest Christians referenced as "a holy spirit."  As all scholarly-trained persons know, skepticism is necessary for one's venture beyond the scientifically established empirical norms that we, as scholars, all work within.  But this does not mean a ridicule and an a priori dismissal of that which seems "odd" or "weird," too fantastic to be "real," or too beyond empirical verifications to merit our attention.  Instead, we are looking for a discernment, a weighing, an analysis, a judgment of things supra-mundane in order to know something about it.  Much of what is discussed on this website may not, in fact, be proof of those things discussed.  Rather, it is to show that such things, e.g., communication with God's spirits, reincarnation, pre-existence, the fall of the spirits from heaven, the physical creation as a result of the fall from heaven, etc., are thoroughly biblical concepts that have nowadays become misunderstood or else classed as non-Christian or "pagan."

Scientific evidence for the existence of spirits and the after life has gradually been building over the past decades.  Still, it has not found a niche in the annals of Science, yet, for such topics remain stigmatized by the lot of the scientific community and are "quarantined" in the domain of pop-culture.  Those trained as scientists, however, have leant their expertise to the fields dealing with the existence of spirits, transcommunication between humans and spirits, and the scientific documentation of a spirit world (an after life) with the use of radio equipment and computers and computer/video imagery.  For instance, confer the following website: www.worlditc.org .  Some of this evidence is rehearsed on this website.  As we progress through this maze, let us keep in mind the following quotes:

"There are two ways to be fooled.  One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true" --Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855).

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge; it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science" --Charles Darwin.

"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively . . . by preconceived opinion, by prejudice" --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860).

"It is one thing not to see the forest for the trees, but then to go on to deny the reality of the forest is a more serious matter" --Paul Weiss

"Don't believe, find out." --Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).

"Men prefer to believe what they prefer to be true" --Francis Bacon (1561-1626).