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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up and
hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
(Winston S.
Churchill)
 The Gospel of Thomas is arguably the most
important writing known to man today.
Why? Important spiritual
teachings were removed from the traditional
Gospels by the Church.
In
the words of Prof. Bart D. Ehrman in his
book, The Orthodox Corruption of
Scripture, where he warns us that:
"...theological disputes, specifically
disputes over Christology, prompted
Christian scribes to alter the words of
scripture in order to make them more
serviceable for the polemical task. Scribes
modified their manuscripts to make them more
patently ‘orthodox’ and less susceptible to
‘abuse’ by the opponents of orthodoxy"
--
which orthodoxy was to bring the text of the
Bible into conformity with the doctrines and
tenets of the Church of the Roman Emperor
Constantine. In his book The Text
of the New Testament, Dr. Vincent Taylor
writes that
"The manuscripts of the New Testament
preserve traces of two kinds of dogmatic
alterations: those which involve the
elimination or alteration of what was
regarded as doctrinally unacceptable or
inconvenient, and those which introduce into
the Scriptures proof for a favorite
theological tenet or practice".
(see
http://BibleCorruption.com ).
Many of these
higher spiritual teachings that were removed
from the canonical Gospels and suppressed by
the Church, were preserved in
the Gospel of Thomas. In the Epistle
of Peter To James it is stated that if this
body of higher Truths should become lost or
thrown away, that
"...it will remain even for those who
really seek the truth, always to wander in
error"
And the modern Church has proven this
statement true beyond even the imagination
of the body of faithful believers. And
while some of this higher spiritual
knowledge is contained in the enigmatic
teachings of the Gospel of Thomas, because
the Christian world has virtually nothing in
common with the Original Gospel Teachings
and Objectives, they can neither utilize the
knowledge and reality that these teachings
suggest, because the dogmatic framework of
the Church has been built upon a gravely
flawed spiritual foundation that has
shackled the vast majority of the Christian
to a state of abject ignorance.
What is not at all realized today is the
great importance of the Gospel of Thomas to
both the Church, and the world today. Why? Because it exclusively focuses on
the great void that has anchored our modern
world in an intellectual and spiritual Dark
Ages that it has not even begun to emerge
from. While we imagine ourselves
to be the most technologically advanced and
enlightened society that has ever existed,
we remain blind to the chains that
shackle modern man which can be portrayed in the
reality of a simple Gospel proclamation in
the words:
"(3)
Jesus said ...But
if you will not know yourselves, you dwell
in poverty and it is you who are that
poverty".
While it is true that we have split and
harnessed the atom -- overcome the forces of
gravity and traveled to the moon -- and we
have made countless technological advances
-- it remains true that because we know
virtually nothing about our True Self and
our Higher Soul-Reality, we remain prisoners
in our own self-imposed cocoon of ignorance
from which we have yet to emerge. And if we pose the question as to why this
statement of dwelling in abject poverty is applicable to what many would
say is the great body of knowledge that is
taught in our institutions of learning
today? The answer is in the
enigma of the statement:
"(39)
Jesus said,
The Pharisees and the scribes have taken the
keys of knowledge and hidden them. They
themselves have not entered, nor have they
allowed to enter those who wish to"
(see
The Key Of Knowledge).
"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is
violently opposed.
Third, it is
accepted as being self-evident."
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
Do
we dwell in a world of shadows? Man's search
for truth and the answers to the virtually
countless dilemmas of life can be defined
from the perspective of two very opposite
schools of thought -- i.e.,
(1)
that man must study and learn the theories
and opinions of other men who are accepted
as teachers, authorities and experts; and
(2)
that each individual person possesses an innate
connection to an Inner Source of Knowledge
and Truth that
he must learn from and acquire the ability to tap
into. The first paradigm of thinking is
based upon what the scriptures portray as
the wisdom of this world that the Apostle
Paul warns will always come to naught -- and
is based upon the foundational paradigm that
the child's mind is empty, and this
emptiness must be filled through the
acquisition of knowledge and truth from
others perceived to be knowledgeable
teachers. While to the
detriment of modern man, the second
paradigm of foundational thinking remains an enigma that
is not readily understood.
"The truth
that makes men free
is for the
most part the truth which men prefer not to
hear."
(Herbert Agar)
Most people are
bound and shackled to their belief -- to the
degree that whatever is not in accord with
their beliefs, they reject. In the
following I will demonstrate that the
knowledge and understanding of the
first-century Christians -- many of whom
personally knew and were directly taught by
the historical man Jesus -- was totally
different and even in conflict with the
thinking and beliefs of modern Christians.
But, the vast majority of people will
demonstrate the wisdom of Winston Churchill
when he emphatically stated:
“Men occasionally
stumble over the truth, but most of them
pick themselves up and hurry off as if
nothing ever happened.”
In his famed work
De Principiis,
the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen wrote in reference
to the proper application of the
Key of Knowledge that few men even
“…imagine that they
possess knowledge before they really learn”
-- and then adds that
“…the consequence is that they never
begin to have knowledge”.
Why? And in the enigma of these
words that few possess the insight to
understand the ramifications of, perhaps even more
important is the reality presented in
Origen's words that men somehow
"...possess
knowledge before they really learn”.
What this means is that even before a child
or person begins to learn, they possess a
Source of Knowledge that they are
consciously unaware of -- and that because
they attempt to acquire knowledge from
outward sources, they inhibit the process of
taping into the inner source of Knowledge
that they are unaware of the existence
within them. And the answer to the dilemma is seen in
the (above) statement with respect to the second reality that
"each
person possesses an innate connection to an
Inner Source of Knowledge and Truth that he must learn
from and
acquire the ability to tap into".
Which gives new meaning to
the words of Jean
Piaget who stated:
“When you teach a child something you take
away forever his chance of discovering it
for himself.”
That all of mankind possess an Inner
Source of Knowledge was known to the ancient
wise men and women who understood the adage
to
Know Thyself.
According to Socrates and Plato, the most
important forms of knowledge come not from
formal instruction, but by a re-awakening of
already existing dormant or latent
knowledge. This is called anamnesis. Under
the heading of Anamnesis (Philosophy), the
Wikipedia states:
It is the idea that humans possess knowledge
from past incarnations and that learning
consists of rediscovering that knowledge
within us. The article then goes
on to say:
Socrates' response is to develop his theory
of anamnesis. He suggests that the soul is
immortal, and repeatedly incarnated;
knowledge is actually in the soul from
eternity... What one perceives to be
learning, then, is actually the recovery of
what one has forgotten. (Once it has been
brought back it is true belief, to be turned
into genuine knowledge by understanding.)
And thus Socrates (and Plato) sees himself,
not as a teacher, but as a midwife, aiding
with the birth of knowledge that was already
there in the student.
A person of a
linear-mindset who equates wisdom and
knowledge as being the product of a formal
education, will very likely question the
perception of a Mystic and a person who
seeks Knowledge within themselves while
never having undergone the formal study of
philosophy, theology or science. Yet, the
linear-minded person seems to forget the
very words of Einstein who reasoned:
“The only thing that interferes with my
learning is my education.” Why?
Because the development of the mind through
outward learning actually inhibits and
atrophies the Intuitive spheres of mind
which are necessary to tap into the Inner
Source within the mind of the seeker (see
Linear Vs Intuitive Development Of Mind
).
Mystics have long warned mankind that the
reality of this world of appearances is not
at all what is seems to be through the
perception of man's physical eyes and senses
-- i.e., that there is a great deal more
that man's senses and perception cannot
detect or even imagine. And this same
enigma of the limits of man's physical
senses and liner-based mindset was noted by
Albert Einstein who concluded with respect
to man's dilemma when he stated:
"The intuitive
mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind
is a faithful servant. We have created a
society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift."
An important
insight into the very essence, purpose and
higher spiritual objectives of the original
teachings of Jesus that came to be portrayed
as TheWay, is contained in an article in the
Encyclopedia Britannica under the heading,
The History of Christian Mysticism,
where it reads:
“Although the essence of mysticism is the
sense of contact with the transcendent,
mysticism in the history of Christianity
should not be understood merely in terms of
special ecstatic experiences but as part of
a religious process lived out within the
context of the Christian community. From
this perspective mysticism played a vital
part in the early church. Early Christianity
was a religion of the spirit that expressed
itself in the heightening and enlargement of
human consciousness”. What is
expressed in these words is of the utmost
importance. Why? Because the original
teachings of Jesus was not the blind faith
and belief in a prophet or god-man -- but
rather, the means to transform all Christian
disciples of TheWay into prophets and
mystics as demonstrated in the words:
"...From this
perspective mysticism played a vital part in
the early church. Early Christianity was a
religion of the spirit that expressed itself
in the heightening and enlargement of human
consciousness”. But, we must
then pose the question: Just what is a
"...religion of the
spirit"? Like an astronaut who
travels beyond the limits of the earth's
atmosphere into outer space, a spiritual
religion prepares the seeker/disciple to
transcend the barrier of this physical
world, and enter into what the biblical
authors portrayed as the Kingdom of God
which Jesus taught was within us. But to
accomplish this spiritual transcendence, you
had to first prepare the physical body to
make it an environment that would permit
"...the
heightening and enlargement of human
consciousness” to be brought
about -- and sadly, this requires a great
amount of effort and preparation.
Why is the
foregoing important?
When rightly understood, the scriptures are
an allegorical representation of what can be
portrayed as the Cosmology of Mind and
Being (see
An Inconvenient Truth). Which means that both the
twelve tribes of Israel, as well as the
twelve disciples of Jesus, are
representations of the Divine Pattern that
is holographically replicated into the mind of each and
every person who is personified as the
Prodigal Son -- and the primary objective of
the scriptures is to bring about the
development and Anointing (Messiah/Christ)
of the mind of the individual seeker.
But herein lies the problem that is restored
and presented in the Gospel of Thomas: Because
the mind is comprised of twelve spheres
which are allegorically portrayed in the pattern of the
Tree of Life -- divided across the
spectrum of the Tree of Duality (aka The
Knowledge of Good And Evil) -- and while those spheres
of mind that look outwardly perceive an
entirely different reality than their
paradoxical opposite spheres of mind that
look inwardly -- it is through the process
of discovery and inner intuitive reflection
that we begin to develop the spheres of mind
necessary to tap into the Inner Source of
Knowledge and receive the Divine Manna and
Spiritual Knowledge (aka Gnosis).
In the Doctrine of the Trinity the Holy
Spirit is Feminine -- with the term Sophia
being interpreted the Wisdom of the
Comforter or Holy Spirit being drawn from
the Intuitive/Feminine Spheres of Mind.
Therefore, when our modern culture which is
totally outward looking, inhibits the
development of the Feminine Intuitive
Spheres of Mind through our modern process
of relying upon outward teachers to convey
information to the student and young
impressionable minds, we inhibit the
development of those Intuitive Spheres of
Mind that are necessary to tap into that
Inner Source of Enlightened Knowledge --
i.e., the Divine Manna of the Kingdom.
In
the same way that an unused limb begins to
atrophied -- and a person who awakens from a
long coma cannot even physically function --
so too do the Intuitive Spheres of mind that
fail to develop and become balanced with the
Linear Spheres of Mind.
Recently in a presidential debate, Dr. Ben
Carson who is a retired neurosurgeon,
noted that he was the only candidate who had
taken out half a human brain.
Then he noted that if you went to
Washington, D.C. you might think that
someone had beaten him to it. What Dr.
Carson is totally unaware of is the reality
that by virtue of our system of our
cultural teaching and education, virtually all the
population is limited to using half of their
potential mind -- and because of the mental
imbalance, it remains virtually impossible
to tap into the Inner Source of Knowledge
that the Church Father Origen was making
reference to. Therefore, if it is true that each of us has the innate
ability to tap into a Source of Truth and
Knowledge that
is greater than all the works ever composed
by man, then when we attempt to teach and
program the child's mind in the traditional
environment of what we portray as learning, we
inadvertently obstruct the
child's ability to tap into this Inner
Source of Knowledge -- thereby rendering the
child mentally impotent.
The Gospel
Enigma That Modern Christians Can't
Comprehend:
Why
can someone who is educated in our
traditionally cultural manner -- who has
attended our finest universities and studied
under the world's most esteemed teachers and
professors -- be portrayed
as being mentally flat-lined and spiritually
impotent? Because when the
pattern of mind is rightly understood, it is
divided across the spectrum of four
mental-trinities which comprise the mind as
patterned in the diagram of the Tree of Life
-- with the three spheres of mind that
comprise the Feminine Intuitive Column, being
limited by the three Linear-Male Spheres
-- which male/female columns are paradoxical opposites within the
Divine Pattern of Mind and Being -- and this
reality of Mind is demonstrated in saying 22
of the Gospel of Thomas which reads:
"Jesus said to
them,
When you make the two
one, and when you make the inside like the
outside and the outside like the inside, and
the above like the below, and when you make
the male and the female one and the same, so
that the male not be male nor the female
female; ...then will you enter
the kingdom."
This
Original important Teaching that was suppressed by the
Gentile Church which portrayed itself as
Orthodox, can only be understood within the
spectrum of the pattern of the
Tree of Life -- and therefore, it has
little to no meaning to modern man.
And unless each person brings the reality
portrayed in this teaching about in their
own Mind and Being, they will remain
mentally flat-lined and spiritually
impotent -- incapable of advancing beyond
the level of what the Apostle Paul portrayed
as that of an "animal-soul" level of
comprehension (see
Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal
Nature).
 The
mind evolves beyond the level of what Paul
portrayed as an
"animal-soul" level of
consciousness, through the interaction of
the divided spheres of the Tree of Knowledge
(aka Tree of Duality) which form the outer
columns of the Tree of Life as patterned in
the diagram at the right. And
this is explored in great detail and depth
at
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ).
Without this positive interaction of the
male-linear and feminine-intuitive, it will
remain impossible to evolve beyond an
organic level where the person is ruled over
by their lower animal nature -- and can be
portrayed as a beast who walks in the form
of man -- incapable of
Entering The
Kingdom Of Man
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#EnteringTheKingdomOfMan
.
After
eating what was portrayed as the forbidden
fruit of the Tree of Duality (a.k.a. Tree Of
Knowledge Of Good And Evil), the statement
was made in the allegorical account of
Genesis:
"The man has now
become like one of us, knowing good and
evil. He must not be allowed to reach out
his hand and take also from the tree of life
and eat, and live forever" (Gen
3:22-23). Thus, the promise is that those
who eat the fruit of the Tree of Life, will
live forever. That the Tree of Life is
something that all of mankind can gain
entrance to, and eat the fruit thereof, is
demonstrated in the statement in the
Revelation:
"'He who has an
ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to
the churches. To him who overcomes, I will
grant to eat of the tree of life which is in
the Paradise of God'" (Rev 2:7).
The
scriptures were written by mystics (see
An Inconvenient Truth) who composed
their sacred writings to both preserve a
body of spiritual knowledge which was of
primary importance to sincere seekers in
search of Higher Truth. To insure this body
of spiritual knowledge was protected so it
could be utilized by those who were the most
sincere seekers, they therefore understood
the importance of cloaking it in a manner
that the carnal forces of this world would
not recognize. These same enlightened
mystics also understood that the division
and separation of what is allegorically
portrayed as Adam and Eve, is representative
of the divided condition of male and female
within all of mankind and these outer realms
of Creation. This condition of division
and separation is expressed in the
Gospel of Philip in the words:
“When Eve was still
with Adam, death did not exist. When she was
separated from him, death came into being.
If he enters again and attains his former
self, death will be no more”.
A most important
teaching has been preserved in the
Gospel of Philip where it states:
"There are two
trees growing in Paradise. One bears
animals, the other bears men. Adam ate from
the tree which bore animals. He became an
animal and he brought forth animals. For
this reason the children of Adam worship
animals. The tree whose gifte Adam ate is
the Tree of Knowledge. That is why sins
increased. If he ate the fruit of the other
tree, that is to say, the Tree of Life, the
one which bears men, then the gods would
worship man. For in the beginning God
created man. But now men create God. That is
the way it is in the world – men make gods
and worship their creation. It would be
fitting for the gods to worship men!" The
Soul of man is asexual -- i.e., a
Being of
Light that is the perfect balance of
male and female in accord with the Divine
Pattern of Creation (see
http://SoulSelf.org ) -- and as a Being
of Light (
http://BeingOfLight.com ), the Source of
Soul-Light is in fact that harmony and
balance of Paradoxical Opposites (see The
Source Of Soul-Light
http://SoulSelf.org/#SourceOfSoulLight
). As explored throughout the above
article, all growth, development of mind and
spiritual evolution is through the
interaction of male/female opposites on all
levels of our Being. In the same way that
the embryo implanted in a woman's womb is
the joining of sperm and ovum -- and the
fact that when we are born into this realm
which is the next stage of Cosmic Womb (see
Mental Womb
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#MentalWomb
) -- we can only expand the mind beyond the
"animal-soul"
level of consciousness through the direct
interaction of the male/female columns of
the Tree of Knowledge -- which is the outer
divided columns of the Tree of Life. Why?
Because the lower nature of mankind is a
reflective (feminine) opposite of our higher
spiritual nature that can only be brought
into Oneness by bringing the outer
paradoxical opposite columns of the Tree of
Knowledge together into the Tree of Life in
the Center.
When the Gospel
of Philip states that the Tree of Knowledge
bears animals -- i.e.,
"One bears animals" -- what is
being stated is so long as the division of
these male/female columns continue to exist
-- which makes it impossible for the
Heavenly and Earthly Kingdoms to be brought
together -- the development of mind will
remain inhibited and flat-lined -- incapable
of comprehending man's higher Soul-Realty.
Without the interaction and re-merger of the
male/female energies of the Tree of
Knowledge, the consciousness of the person
remains organic and what Paul portrayed as
at an "animal-soul"
level (see Animal-Soul
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal )
-- and the person basically remains
controlled by their lower nature and can be
portrayed as beasts who walk in the form of
man. Which basically means that all the
promises of the scriptures do not apply to
them -- even when they call themselves
Christian. This condition of division
and separation is expressed in the
Gospel of Philip in the words:
“When Eve was still
with Adam, death did not exist. When she was
separated from him, death came into being.
If he enters again and attains his former
self, death will be no more”.
Further, the same mystics who authored the
scriptures understood that so long as the
mind of man continues to exist in this
divided state of male and female, it would
remain impossible for him to comprehend his
own higher soul and spiritual reality (see
The Fatal Error Of The Church). Thus,
when rightly understood, it is this divided
condition across the gender divide of man
and woman, that immerses mankind under an
umbrella of self-ignorance -- a suppressed
mental condition that Jesus portrayed as the
"outer darkness"
of mind and being (see
Outer Darkness). Which meant that
before a person could even begin to
comprehend this higher spiritual knowledge
that is the birth-right of mankind as the
divine offspring of Creator-God, he has to
first escape the conditions that inhibit his
development.
Second
Epistle Of Clement: That the foregoing teaching which is
contained in the Gospel of Thomas saying 22 was
important to the first century followers of
Jesus, is demonstrate in The Second
Epistle of Clement where this
ultra-important teaching that was removed
from the Gospels modern Christians use is
quoted as stating:
“Let us expect, therefore, hour by hour, the
kingdom of God in love and righteousness,
since we know not the day of the appearing
of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by
one when His kingdom would come, replied,
'When two shall be one, that which is
without as that which is within, and the
male with the female, neither male nor
female’”. What
Clement -- the disciple of Peter who is
claimed by the Church as the fourth pope in
succession of Peter -- is stating in accord with the
Original teachings is that when the
seeker/believer brings this condition about
within their own Mind and Being, that the
predicted and expected Kingdom will come
within them as promised -- as stated in
Jesus' teachings on the Key of Knowledge
(see
The Third Fatal Mistake - Not Proving The
Truth).
It is
important to recognize that when Clement
wrote the above in his Epistle to a
congregation of Christians, he did so in the
expectation that the people to whom he was
writing would understand the
great truths he was presenting to them.
That the Kingdom or End Times would and
could only come when
"...two shall be
one, that which is without as that which is
within, and the male with the female,
neither male nor female’”.
And the fact that this statement that is in
the Gospel of Thomas and was contained in a
first century Epistle from an elder to a
congregation of believers in that
time-frame, could not be contained and
understood in a letter or epistle to a
congregation today, is merely one example of
the fact that the dogma and thinking of the
modern Church has virtually nothing in
common with the original teachings of Jesus
known as TheWay (see
The Original
Teachings Have Nothing In Common With Church
Dogma
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org#OriginalTeachings
). Which provokes
the question: Has the requirements to enter
the Kingdom changed in order to accommodate
the dogmatic corruption of the Church?
Has Truth and Higher Spiritual Reality been
discarded and thrown away, because the
Church threw this body of essential
Knowledge pertaining to the Coming of the
Kingdom away? Or, does modern
Christians dwell in a self-imposed Diaspora
of abject Spiritual Ignorance which was
brought about by the massive corruption of
the scriptures (see
BibleCorruption.com ), and the
suppression of the body of essential
knowledge that is necessary to restore the
lost prodigal son to his rightly place in
the Edenic Kingdom of Origination.
When Jesus
conveyed to Nicomedus that
"...Most assuredly,
I say to you, unless one is born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God" --
and when Nicomedus did not understand the
threefold process of birth, Jesus then asked
how he could be a teacher, and not know
these spiritual realities:
"...Nicodemus answered and said to Him, How
can these things be? Jesus answered and
said to him, Are you the teacher of Israel,
and do not know these things? It
is important to grasp the reality of the
words that when Nicodemus did not grasp the
reality of achieving the next stage of
birth, that Jesus replied:
Most assuredly, I
say to you, We speak what We know and
testify what We have seen, and you do not
receive Our witness. If I have told you
earthly things and you do not believe, how
will you believe if I tell you heavenly
things?" (John 3:1-12 NKJ).
Thus, if the next stage of birth was brought
about by saying a prayer to the Jesus-god
created by fourth century pagan Rome -- or, the sinners prayer as is
commonly practiced by modern Christians --
then Jesus would not have replied to
Nicodemus in this manner. He
would have stated to Nidodemus that a person
must say the prayer to the Messianic Lord
and Savior, in order to be born again. But
he did not, because this man-made dogma had
not yet been invented and propagated by
faux-priests who were part of the great
shadow-church of pagan Rome.
In
the same way that genetically, the embryo
that forms the body when an infant is born
into this world is the merger and balance of
23 pairs of chromosomes from the mother and
father, what is being presented in the words
of the Gospel of Thomas -- i.e.,
"When you make the two
one, and when you make the inside like the
outside and the outside like the inside, and
the above like the below, and when you make
the male and the female one and the same, so
that the male not be male nor the female
female..."
-- is the means by which the
Feminine-Intuitive and Male-Linear opposite
spheres of mind within the pattern of the
twelve spheres of the Tree of Life must be
brought into a state of Evolved Wholeness
and Oneness, in order for the mind of the
seeker to evolve beyond what Paul portrays
as an "animal-soul"
level of consciousness
(see
Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal
Nature), and
for the Kingdom to
come in the manner that was promised in the
Gospel -- i.e.,
"He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the churches. To him
who overcomes, to him I will give of the
hidden manna" (Rev 2:17).
Which provokes the question: Overcomes what?
Overcome the division of the Tree of Duality
of the person's own mind as explored in the
article
The
Tree Of Life -- as personified in the
statement:
"'He who has an
ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to
the churches. To him who overcomes, I will
grant to eat of the tree of life which is in
the Paradise of God'" (Rev 2:7).
Which spiritually transformative process is
personified in the words of the Gospel of
Thomas:
"When you make the two
one, and when you make the inside like the
outside and the outside like the inside, and
the above like the below, and when you make
the male and the female one and the same, so
that the male not be male nor the female
female; ...then will you enter
the kingdom".
That the later
fourth century Church of Rome threw this
essential knowledge away that the first-century
Christian clearly understood, does not in
any manner change the requirements of birth
that Jesus set forth in the Gospel. In
the words of that
60’s philosopher Bob Dylan during that time
of his life when he was a student of Hebrew
Mysticism, when he said:
"He who’s not
busy being born, is busy dying"!
There are Two Ways -- i.e., what Jesus
portrayed as the
"narrow path" of TheWay of Life,
and the "broad-way"
that the vast majority of mankind walks to
their own demise. And if you
fail to bring about the next stage of birth
-- with the Second Coming and End Times
coming within you, while you are still in
the physical body -- it will be impossible
to accomplish this necessary next stage of
birth in the after-life when you pass from
this world. Thereby fulfilling
the statement:
"Assuredly, I say
to you, there are some standing here who
shall not taste death till they see the Son
of Man coming in His kingdom" (Matt
16:28 NKJ). As stated in the
Gospel of Philip:
"Those who say that
first they shall die and
(then) they
shall arise are confused. If they do not
first receive the resurrection (while) they
live, they will not receive anything (when)
they die"
Therefore, it is impossible to fulfill the
requirements of the Gospels without first
fulfilling the teaching of Jesus when he
stated:
"When you make the two
one, and when you make the inside like the
outside and the outside like the inside, and
the above like the below, and when you make
the male and the female one and the same, so
that the male not be male nor the female
female; ...then will you enter
the kingdom."
And it is
for this reason that the narrow path of
TheWay is portrayed as difficult that few
find -- i.e.,
regardless of what your pastor, minister,
priest, clergy or inspired preacher tells
you, if you fail to find the
"narrow gate
that is difficult and which leads to life,
and only the very few ever find it"
that permits entrance into the
Kingdom within you (Luke 17:20-21) while you
are still alive in the physical body, you
will have walked the broad-way that is
walked by the multitudes to their own
self-destruction. The Gospel of
Thomas opens with the profound statement:
And [Jesus} said,
"Whoever finds the interpretation of these
sayings will not experience death."
The only way to find the meaning of the
above statement with respect to overcoming
the male/female columns of Duality of the
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, is to
remerge what is allegorically personified as
Adam and Eve into their original condition
of Adam/Eve, and eat the Life-Giving Fruit
in the Center of the Tree of Life (
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ).
Which means that to
"find the
interpretation of these saying",
the seeker/disciple must bring about the
next stage of birth by
"making the two one,
and when you make the inside like the
outside and the outside like the inside, and
the above like the below, and when you make
the male and the female one and the same, so
that the male not be male nor the female
female; ...then will you enter
the kingdom."
The Gospels continually warn us that the
path or the second birth and entrance into
the Kingdom is not easy. The strife of the
inner war within ourselves as embodied in
the symbols of Armageddon is seen in the
words:
"We must
through many tribulations enter the kingdom
of God"
(Acts 14:22 NKJ).
In the words of Jesus:
"And he who does not
take his cross and follow after Me is not
worthy of Me" (Matt 10:38 NKJ).
Thus, in the same way that a woman travails
in labor to bring a child into this world,
we must ourselves endure the
"…many tribulations"
of spiritual labor to
be born into the Kingdom of God. Since the
Kingdom is within us, and Armageddon is
therefore not an historical event -- but
more factually, a spiritual event in the
life of the disciple in search of Truth --
we must then totally re-evaluate everything
we think we know about both the Gospel
Message, and the life we are presently
living. In fully comprehending these
biblical statements in relation to the whole
purpose of the teachings of The Way, let us
again examine the definitive statement which
conveys to us the very essence of the Gospel
-- and especially the Revelation of John:
"Blessed are those who do His commandments,
that they may have the right to the tree of
life, and may enter through the gates into
the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers
and sexually immoral and murderers and
idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a
lie"
(Rev 22:14-15 NKJ).
If the text of the Revelation represented
the end of the world, as is commonly
believed by the majority of Christians
today, then we must pose the question: Why
are those who remain outside the city
portrayed as
"dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and
murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves
and practices a lie"?
Armageddon, then, indicates the disciples
personal tribulation described as the
"pangs of birth",
as he endeavors to overcome
his own lower carnal nature through the
crucifixion of what is symbolized by the
flesh, in order that he can possess the
Knowledge of the fruit of the Tree of Life,
transcend the natural barriers of this
world, and
"enter through the gates into the city".
“The only good is knowledge and the only
evil is ignorance”
(Socrates)
The catalyst to perceiving and
understanding the true meaning of the text
of the Gospel of Thomas, like all scriptures,
is in the proper application of what saying
thirty-nine portrays as the proper use of
the Key
of Knowledge.
While the
Christians, like the Jews before them who
threw away the Key of Knowledge, look for
the Kingdom to come outwardly upon the
earth, the Gospel itself states that the
Kingdom will never come upon the earth so as
to be seen by men,
because it is within you -- and it is
therein that you must seek it:
"And when he was
demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom
of God should come, he answered them and
said, The kingdom of God comes not with
observation: Neither shall they say, See
here! or, see there! for, behold, the
kingdom of God is within you"
(Luke 17:20-21). If it is true, and the
Kingdom is within you, then the question
that Christians should be asking, is how
must it be entered? The answer is the
proper application of the Key of Knowledge
by turning the scriptures within your own
mind and being -- i.e.,
"How terrible it
will be for you experts in religious law!
For you hide the key to knowledge from the
people. You don't enter the Kingdom
yourselves, and you prevent others from
entering" (Luke 11:52). Thus, in
understanding these words spoken to the
Pharisees, the questions must be asked: How
did the Pharisees and Jewish authorities
"...hide the key to
knowledge from the people"? Why
did Jesus condemn the leaders of the Jews
for failing to enter the Kingdom themselves?
-- i.e., "...You
don't enter the Kingdom yourselves"!
And how did the religious leaders of the
Jews "...prevent
others from entering?" That the
primary objective of the Gospel is to
prepare and enable the seeker/disciple to
enter the Kingdom, is further demonstrated
in Jesus' condemnation of the blind
religious leaders as seen in the words:
"Woe to you,
teachers of the law and Pharisees, you
hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven
in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter,
nor will you let those enter who are trying
to" (Matt 23:13 NIV). Which
means that the Kingdom of God is not
something that will come if we wait for it
-- but rather, it is a reality which man
must seek and find -- within himself (see
The Third Fatal Mistake).
In what is known
as the Gospel Of The Nazirenes there is what
is called
The Seven Parables Of The Kingdom --
wherein it is written:
"The kingdom of heaven is like to a city
built four-square on the top of a high hill,
and established on a rock, and strong in its
surrounding wall, and its towers and its
gates, which lie to the north, and to the
south, and to the east, and to the west.
Such a city does not fall, neither can it to
be hidden. Its gates are open to all, who,
having the keys, will enter therein."
The Keys to the Gates are the proper use of
the scriptures whereby the seeker of the
Kingdom turns the scriptures within
themselves to use as the
Key
of Knowledge to gain entrance to
the Kingdom. When
the Kingdom is properly understood as a
Higher Spiritual Reality that must be
entered while still physically alive in the
body-vessel, the true meaning of the Book of
Revelations begins to unfold as the
spiritualization and purification of the
body into
The
Final Temple.
The Bible continually warns us that the path
or the second birth and entrance into the
Kingdom is not easy (see
The Transformation). The strife of the
inner war within ourselves as embodied in
the symbols of Armageddon is seen in the
words:
"We must
through many tribulations enter the kingdom
of God"
(Acts 14:22 NKJ).
Thus, in the same way that a woman travails
in labor to bring a child into this world,
we must ourselves endure the
"…many tribulations"
of spiritual labor to
be born into the Kingdom of God. Since the
Kingdom is within us, and Armageddon is
therefore not an historical event -- but
more factually, a spiritual event in the
life of the disciple in search of Truth --
we must then totally re-evaluate everything
we think we know about both the Gospel
Message, and the life we are presently
living. In fully comprehending these
biblical statements in relation to the whole
purpose of the teachings of The Way, let us
again examine the definitive statement which
conveys to us the very essence of the Gospel
-- and especially the Revelation of John:
"Blessed are those who do His commandments,
that they may have the right to the tree of
life, and may enter through the gates into
the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers
and sexually immoral and murderers and
idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a
lie"
(Rev 22:14-15 NKJ).
If the text of the Revelation represented
the end of the world, as is commonly
believed by the majority of Christians
today, then we must pose the question: Why
are those who remain outside the city
portrayed as
"dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and
murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves
and practices a lie"?
Armageddon, then, indicates the disciples
personal tribulation described as the
"pangs of birth",
as he endeavors to overcome
his own lower carnal nature through the
crucifixion of what is symbolized by the
flesh, in order that he can possess the
Knowledge of the fruit of the Tree of Life,
transcend the natural barriers of this
world, and
"enter through the gates into the city".
The
"...teachers of
the law and Pharisees"
were portrayed as hypocrites who do not
themselves enter the Kingdom, while as
counterfeit shepherds they inhibit those who are
trying to enter, because they interpreted
the scriptures outwardly in ritual,
tradition and the dogmatic interpretations
of carnal men -- as is done by the
Christians today. Yet, because
the foundational paradigm of mind and being
is built upon the second rarely acknowledged
reality above, Jesus warned his followers
not to be called rabbi or teacher, because
their is ONLY ONE TEACHER which they must
seek out to learn from (see
The One Teacher). And as
stated by the Apostle Peter, if you seek
Truth then
"...you
have to learn them from Him alone, because
He alone knows the truth."
To
the degree that Peter warns that the true
meaning of the scriptures are beyond the
comprehension of human wisdom and
understanding -- i.e.,
"...therefore great care is to be taken,
that when the law of God is read, it be not
read according to the understanding of our
own mind. For there are many sayings in the
divine Scriptures which can be drawn to that
sense which every one has preconceived for
himself; and this ought not to be done. For
you ought not to seek a foreign and
extraneous sense, which you have brought
from without".
Yet, in a
total rejection of this core Gospel
teaching, Christians not only seek to learn
from the people of this world -- i.e.,
"...For you ought not to seek a foreign and
extraneous sense, which you have brought
from without"!!! And again in
total rejection of core Gospel teachings,
the doctrines and interpretations of the
scriptures are drawn totally from the very
limited perspective of human organic
reasoning -- i.e.,
"...therefore great care is to be taken,
that when the law of God is read, it be not
read according to the understanding of our
own mind". Why? Because
human reasoning is totally earth-bound, and
incapable of understanding even the true
reality of what is seen in the earth --
i.e., based upon
"...the basic principles of this world".
In 2 Peter 1:20 the Apostle condemns and
rejects what he portrays as
"private
interpretations" of the
scriptures -- i.e.,
"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of
the scripture is of any private
interpretation". The objective
was to have no divisions within the
Congregations -- i.e.,
“I appeal to you, that there may be no
divisions among you and that you may be
perfectly united in mind and thought”
(1 Cor 1:10 NIV). And someone who even
suggests a manmade opinion or doctrine,
should be rejected as a heretic who has been
turned out of TheWay -- i.e.,
“Warn a divisive
person once, and then warn him a second
time. After that, have nothing to do with
him. You may be sure that such a man is
warped and sinful; he is self-condemned”
(Titus 3:10-11 NIV). The Greek meaning of
the word divisive is
“one who promotes a sect” --
i.e., a doctrine of belief. And on this
important point the Church Father Turtullian
writes: “On this
point, however, we dwell no longer, since it
is the same Paul who, in his Epistle to the
Galatians, counts 'heresies' among 'the sins
of the flesh,' who also intimates to Titus,
that 'a man who is a heretic' must be
'rejected after the first admonition,' on
the ground that 'he that is such is
perverted, and committeth sin, as a
self-condemned man.' Indeed, in almost every
epistle, when enjoining on us (the duty) of
avoiding false doctrines, he sharply
condemns heresies. Of these the practical
effects are false doctrines, called in Greek
heresies, a word used in the sense of that
choice which a man makes when he either
teaches them (to others) or takes up with
them (for himself). For this reason it is
that he calls the heretic self-condemned,
because he has himself chosen that for which
he is condemned”. In the
original Gospel teachings, it was considered
a “sin of the
flesh”, because schisms and
divisions are the result of natural man
clinging to ideas of a carnal nature.
The objective and
the purpose of all the Gospels is to seek
out and enter the Inner Kingdom -- i.e.,
"Whoever finds the
interpretation of these sayings will not
experience death."
The proper interpretation of the sayings of
the Gospel of Thomas can ONLY be revealed to
the seeker by
The One Teacher that
Jesus commanded to seek out.
And the disciples knew the Truth, because
their minds had been opened to the spiritual
meaning of the scriptures -- i.e.,
"Then opened
He their understanding, that they might
understand the scriptures"
(Luke
24:45) -- which opening of the mind enabled
them to enter and dwell in the Kingdom while
they were still physically alive in the
body-vessel.
In the Bible
translation known as The Message, the above
reality of Jesus' words with respect to the
usage of the Key of Knowledge is portrayed
in true clarity. In this translation when
Jesus turned to the Jews who had claimed to
believe in him and said: "If
you stick with this, living out what I tell
you, you are my disciples for sure. Then you
will experience for yourselves the truth,
and the truth will free you"(John
8:31-32 TheMessage) -- and once again,
neither Christian or Jew who have thrown
away the Key of Knowledge can understand
these words which are of the utmost
importance. Jesus didn't say that they
would believe the truth -- or that they
would discern what they believed would be
dogmatic truth out of the scriptures or some
book written by other men -- but rather,
Jesus conveyed to them that if they follow
in TheWay, that they "...will
experience for yourselves the truth, ...and
it is this SELF-EXPERIENCED TRUTH that ...will
free you" from
the error and ignorance that consumes the
people of this world -- and especially the
blind guides who portray themselves as
rabbis and teachers.
The result of the
works and actions of our cultural archons,
our accepted experts, our religious,
philosophical and educational authorities
who have all built their paradigm of
foundational thinking upon the first of the
above scenarios of mind and being, not only
has modern man been alienated from his true
self that is portrayed in the words:
"...But if you will
not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty
and it is you who are that poverty"
-- but the whole of our society and culture
dwells in an intellectual and spiritual
abyss of profound ignorance, because we have
compounding our error by building error upon
error. If the mind of the
child is not an empty void that needs to be
filled and programmed with the wisdom of the
men of this world -- and in
contradistinction, possess the innate
ability to tap into a Source of Knowledge
that exceeds all the religious and
philosophical teachings of mankind -- then
when we attempt to teach the child through
rote programming of what must be recognized
as the anti-knowledge of this world, our
good intentions do more to alienate the
child from their own True Self (see
SoulSelf.org), and obstruct their path
into the Kingdom and the Promise of Life.
Thus, Jesus taught
that those who seek to enter into Life, must
"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is
the gate and broad is the way that leads to
destruction, and there are many who go in by
it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult
is the way which leads to life, and there
are few who find it" (Matt
7:13-14 NKJ) -- and it is imperative to
understand that the word translated
"destruction",
in no manner represents what is actually
being presented by the interpreters of the
Greek biblical texts. Quoting the footnote
on this word in the Schofield Reference
Bible which reads:
“There is no thought in these various words
of annihilation but of something that is
ruined and thus unsuitable or unable to
fulfill its original purpose”. Entering
in
"...by the narrow gate",
is to bring about and achieve the next stage
of birth that provides entrance to the Inner
Kingdom and the higher reality of our soul
and true self.
If you fail to attain the next stage of
birth that Jesus said is necessary to enter
into Life, as a soul-image that has failed
to become manifest, as portrayed in Gospel
of Thomas saying 84, you can neither
reincarnate or can you go to Glory as the
dogma of the Church assumes. And in
the same way that a woman does not perish if
one of her eggs fails to evolve into a
fetus, neither does the soul perish when one
of its images which is projected into this
world, fails to evolve through the three
stages of birth. And in the same way that
the woman's egg that fails to become an
embryo is "...thus
unsuitable or unable to fulfill its original
purpose”, so too is the embryonic
image of the soul that is projected into
this world
"...unsuitable or unable to fulfill its
original purpose.” And this
purpose, is to bring about the necessary
threefold birth that enables the soul to
enter into what Jesus portrayed as Life. To
further demonstrate the higher reality of
birth that was portrayed to Nicomedus in the
Gospel of John (see
Cosmic Ovum And Sperm), Jesus stated:
"...Most assuredly,
I say to you, unless one is born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God" --
and this fact is a true reality of life.
"If
I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do
a certain thing,
it is possible that I may end by really
becoming incapable of doing it.
On the contrary, if I shall have the belief
that I can do it,
I shall
surely acquire the capacity to do it, even
if I may not have it at the beginning."
(Mahatma Gandhi)
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An important
teaching in the Gospel of Thomas restores a
foundational concept that the removal of
which, has alienated and disenfranchised the
Christian world from the spiritual meaning
of the Gospels -- which alienation has
inhibited their entrance into the Kingdom
they seek.
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While Jesus did not teach
reincarnation from an Eastern
perspective, he did teach the
Higher Reality of the Soul that
evolves to Perfection over the
course of many Incarnated
Lifetimes. It is easily
proven that this teaching was
removed from Church doctrine --
which removal created a great
void in the
perceptive-understanding of all
faith-based believers.
Prior to being corrupted the
Gospels taught that Jesus became
the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) at
his baptism in the Jordan (see
http://TheTenWords.com ).
And because the knowledge of the
process of spiritual growth was
stripped out of the Gospel
teachings (
http://BibleCorruption.com
), modern Christians are
intellectually incapable of
comprehending how the man Jesus
became At-One with the Logos/Son
of God. And ultimately,
they are incapable of
comprehending the true spiritual
meaning of the Gospels
themselves (see
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org
).
From a higher Soul-perspective,
it can be said that
reincarnation is a counterfeit
belief -- and this is true.
But so too is the belief that
when the Christian passes from
this life they will go to Glory
with Jesus their God.
Paul warned that the higher
reality of the Soul -- the
Mysteries of the Kingdom -- and
the spiritual meaning of the
Gospel -- was incomprehensible
even for the faith-based
believers who he personally
taught, to comprehend. And
this remains true to this very
day -- and is the reason why
these doctrines were embraced by
the entry-level believers.
When the first-century Church
was accused of being a
"secret
system" -- teaching
the inner core very different
than the outer congregations of
faith-based believers -- the
official reply of the Church
explained that the doctrine of
the physical resurrection was
“...preached in the Churches…
for the simpleminded and for the
ears of the common crowd who are
led on to live better lives by
their belief”
-- because as Paul warned, it is
impossible for
"natural" man in his
organic condition of mind to
comprehend the higher reality of
the Soul and the Mysteries of
the Kingdom. But
unlike the modern Church, the
first-century Church was a
Spiritual Healing Center that
brought about the necessary
Spiritual Maturity and
Development of Mind that enabled
the sincere believer/seeker to
perceive what physical eyes and
not see -- hear what physical
ears cannot -- and comprehend
what the organic consciousness
of physical man cannot
comprehend. But to bring
this evolved condition about,
the seeker MUST build upon the
Original Foundation that has
been abandoned by the modern
believer. |
A foundation is
the bedrock upon which you build. If
the foundation is defective, then everything
you attempt to build upon that foundation
will be limited by the bedrock upon which
you have attempted to use as the framework
of your efforts. When biblical scholar
and Dead Sea Scroll expert A. Powell Davies
attempted to warn the Christian world that
“Biblical scholars
were not disturbed by what they found in the
Dead Sea Scrolls because they had known all
along that the origin of Christianity was
not what was commonly supposed to have
been”. The
question must be asked: What was the source
and original of Christianity that the
historical facts demonstrate is different
than what is preached from the pulpits of
the Churches today? Worse
yet, Edmund Wilson, an expert who worked on
the Dead Sea Scrolls, further raised the
question as to what difference it makes if
“Jesus... had been
trained in the discipline and imbued with
the thought of a certain Jewish sect, and
that he had learned from it the role that he
afterwards lived...” (The Scrolls
From The Dead Sea). To the uninformed and
unknowing believer, it made all the
difference in the world! If
Jesus was an Essene who lived a holy and
consecrated life, fulfilling the Law not in
the manner of the Sadducees and Pharisees --
but in the spiritual manner of the Essenes within
himself so completely, that he became the
Messiah/Christ -- i.e., At-One with the
indwelling Logos/Son of God at his baptism
as stated by all Church Authorities prior to
the fourth century Nicene Council held by
the Roman Emperor Constantine (see
The Ten
Words) -- then the Adam Clark Bible
Commentary is correct when it states that
"...the whole Christian system is vain and
baseless"!!! But this fact
was confirmed by yet another scholar, Prof.
John Allegro, who stated
that
the Dead Sea Scrolls provide overwhelming
evidence that
“...may upset a great many basic
teachings of the Christian Church. This in
turn would greatly upset many Christian
Theologians and believers. The heart of
the matter is, in fact, the source and
originality of Christian doctrine”
-- what the biblical scholars confirmed is
the fact that the dogmatic doctrines of the
Church has virtually nothing in common with
the core teachings and objectives of the
Original Gospel Message of the Good News!
But in view of the fact that the original
followers of Jesus were all hunted down as
heretics because they refused to accept the
religion of the emperor, it should come as
no surprise that modern Christianity has
virtually nothing in common with both the
pre-Nicene Church, or the original teachings
of TheWay.
If, as the
original Gospels stated prior to being
corrupted by the Church
(see
The Ten
Words), that the historical man Jesus
was a true Holy Man who lived the necessary
Consecrated Life in TheWay -- thereby
fulfilling the Law within himself -- one of
the realities not at all understood about
the Life of Jesus is the fact that he
achieved this high degree of perfection over
the course of many lifetimes which his Soul
lived prior to that life in the first
century. That the Soul evolves to
perfection over the course of many
lifetimes, is easily demonstrated at
The Biblical Foundational Mindset.
And this is seen in teachings on
The Early Church On Predestination.
And that the pre-Nicene Church was a
threefold Spiritual Healing Center, is
demonstrated in
The Secret Doctrine. Unlike
the traditional Mystery Religions of the
era, the pre-Nicene Church was designed to
heal and assist the prodigal children at
every level of their advancement.
In the
fourth century the Church which fell under
the control of the Emperor Constantine, took
the most corrupted copies of scriptures (see
BibleCorruption.com ), and further
corrupted them in order to make them support
the doctrines of pagan Rome. The first
scripture to undergo the editing process,
was the Book of Acts. After seeing the
corrupted text, the Ebionite Nazirenes
together with the Spiritual Christians came
together in council, and agreed to bury and
preserve seven (7) libraries of scriptures
which could be used in the future by sincere
seekers. Why was the preservation of
these more pure scriptures important?
Because the scriptures are not historical
accounts as believed today -- but rather,
the true spiritual meaning presents to the
seeker the Laws and Forces of Consciousness
and the Cosmology of Mind that is necessary
for the seeker to comprehend in his search
for Truth and the Inner Kingdom (see
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org ).
One of these hidden caches of scriptures is
known today as the Nag Hammadi Library --
and the below copy of the Gospel of Thomas
was a part of this hidden cache of
scriptures.
Jesus taught that
we must be born a second time -- and when
the spiritual meaning of the Gospels are
rightly understood by properly applying them
as the
Key of Knowledge, what is presented in
the allegorical portrayal of the crucifixion
is in fact the process of final-birth which we all
must bring about in our lives. Moreover,
these subsequent stages of birth must be
initiated while we still dwell in the
physical body. As stated in the Gospel of
Philip "Those who
say that first they shall die and (then)
they shall arise are confused. If they do
not first receive the resurrection (while)
they live, they will not receive anything
(when) they die" (see
http://DivineManna.org ). The only
time that the Kingdom can Come as portrayed
in the Gospels, is when a person is still
alive in the physical body and is able to
bring about the next stage of birth -- and
the soul can bring about Wholeness and
Balance of the twelve spheres of mind --
thereby, eating the fruit of the
Tree of Life -- and accomplishing what
Jesus said with respect to the next stage of
birth and entering the Kingdom. Wholeness,
must be achieved while in the body-vessel
which is of the fourth kingdom -- and has
the potential to balance and make the three
(3) heavenly spiritual centers, and the
three (3) earthly spiritual centers, At-One.
Without the body-vessel, this cannot be
accomplished in an after-death state.
When you pass from this life you no longer
have access to the lower three earthly
kingdoms, and it is impossible to bring
about the subsequent stages of birth in an
after-death state. Further,
the traditional suppression of the ego-self or
earth-consciousness in the monastic mindset,
does not develop that lower point by making
it the "good
ground" that brings forth
Completeness (see
The
Way Of The Monk). Therefore,
if you are waiting to learn the truth when
you pass from this life, you will have
waited too long -- and whatever truths you
do learn, cannot be used to bring about the
subsequent stages of birth that are
necessary to fulfill your ultimate Destiny.
Saying 84 -
The Foundation Of The Soul And The Threefold
Self:
While what is
revealed in the
Gospel of Thomas saying 84 may sound
strange to the modern Christian, it
represents an important foundational
teaching that was removed from the Gospels
by the later Pagan Church of Rome (see
http://BibleCorruption.com ). What is
our true nature and form? Our Soul
is our True-Self, and is the Being of Light
that many people encounter in the published
accounts of what is known as the Near Death
Experience (see
Being Of
Light). And one of the secrets that
is unknown today, is the fact that you need
not physically die, in order to come into
the presence of the Being of Light within
you -- i.e., your true soul-self. In
fact, one of the primary objectives of the
Original Gospel Teachings is to enable the believer to draw
near and actually become At-One with their
higher Soul-Self who is a Being of Light --
and thereby prevail over the forces of this
world -- manifesting the Heavenly Kingdom
within one's self -- and walking the earth
as a one's true self, a Being of Light.
In fact, the teachings on A House Divided
Cannot Stand, is in reference to this
divided reality of the person we are in this
world, with our True-Self that is our
Soul-Self. And herein lies the problem: Men and Women
look at their reflected image in a mirror,
and they think they are seeing the true
being that they are. And thus, because of
man's own ignorance of his true self, nature and
form, this higher reality could not be
revealed to men of a carnal mindset who Paul
correctly portrays as being of an
"animal-soul" level of consciousness (see
Organic
Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal Nature
http://SoulSelf.org#AnimalNature ).
And with the removal of this important
Original Gospel Teaching, it
remains impossible for organic man to grasp
the higher realities of the soul and the
Kingdom of God. Yet, if each person is to
overcome the ignorance of this world with
respect to our true nature and form, then it
is important to begin to recognize the
reality of self that is being portrayed in
the Gospel of Thomas saying 84, and is
conveyed in the words:
(84) Jesus said, "When you see your
likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your
images which came into being before you, and
which neither die nor become manifest, how
much you will have to bear!"
What is being stated? Saying 84 presents
what is portrayed as
YOUR LIKENESS, and
YOUR IMAGES.
It does not say: When you see God -- and
this is because you dwell within the reality
of your own soul-self -- and it is your
soul-self that is in the above portrayed as
"your likeness"
that dwells within God. When rightly
understood, we only dwell within God by
proxy.
In the
below section on Anamnesis, the Inner Source
that the seeker is striving to learn from
and access, is their Indwelling Soul-Self --
and only when man has overcome his inner
divided nature and exists in a state of
At-Oneness with his Higher Soul-Self, is the
seeker able to tap into the Inner Logos/Son
of God that is portrayed as The True Prophet
that Christians are Commanded to seek as
their Only Teacher (see
True Prophet). But it
remains virtually impossible to fulfill the
Gospel and for the seeker to enter the
presence of their Higher Soul-Self -- and
Ultimately, the Indwelling Logos -- without
fully understanding their own relaitonship
to what Saying 84 portrays as the seekers
"likeness"
-- and the reality of the
"images"
that came into existence prior to that
person. And thus, because the
Gospels were corrupted, and this
ultra-important teaching removed and
suppressed, it remains virtually impossible
for the modern Christian to build upon the
Gospel Teachings in their present corrupted
form.
From a Gospel
perspective, that those who can only receive
the one talent in the parable of the talents
(see
Parable Of The Talents), cannot hear the
Living Words spoken of at John 5:24 that
permits them to
"...cross over from death to life”
-- because they are the walking dead that
Jesus spoke of who cannot hear or see beyond
the physical (see
The Dead Know Nothing). Why? Because
they are carnal and their consciousness is
grounded in the earth, and have only
advanced through the first stage of physical
birth, they fail to Know Themselves, and
they dwell in the poverty of darkness which
is inherent in the womb of Mother-Earth --
i.e., the Gospel of Thomas declares:
"...But if you will
not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty
and it is you who are that poverty".
Who are we? What
are we? Until you can first answer these
questions, you will remain totally ignorant
of both God and your own higher
soul-reality. We cannot even be known by
God, so long as we remain a divided
expression of our higher soul-self. Only,
when we overcome our divided natures, and
bring about the next stage of birth where we
manifest our soul and true-self in the body,
can we even begin to Know God. The Gospel of Thomas states:
"Jesus said, When
you see your likeness, you rejoice"
-- and it is this likeness that is
our own source of Being -- our soul-self,
who is the Being of Light in the Near Death
Experience. And the Gospel of Thomas asks
the question:
"...But when you see your images which came
into being before you, and which neither die
nor become manifest, how much you will have
to bear!" These images which
came into being before you, are the past
lives that your soul-self has previously
lived, that have all failed to bring about
the next stage of soul-birth that Jesus
taught was necessary to enter the Kingdom.
And thus, these past images which your
Soul and True-Self has lived, remain within
the House of the Soul
as the experiences of failed lives that
never became manifest. Which
means that as a failed-image, you will
neither go to Glory with God, nor will you
reincarnate -- and lacking the permanence of
the Soul, you will remain forever as an
experience in the
House of the Soul.
The reality
of man’s plight in this world is that he is
an embryonic image of his pre-existent soul
that has entered into this realm in order to
perfect those laws and elements that he must
overcome. In the same way that a fetus is
an embryonic copy of its parents, our mind
is an embryonic image of our soul. In the
same way a fetus must grow and mature in
accordance with the pattern of its parents,
our mind must grow and mature in the pattern
of our soul. When our mind grows in the
culture of this world, and becomes alienated
from our soul, then our life becomes
synonymous with the miscarriage of a fetus
whose defect fails to develop it in
accordance with its physical genetic
pattern. What this means is that
the Original Teaching on the pre-existent
Soul that evolves to Completion of the
course of many incarnations, has virtually
little in common with the Eastern doctrine
of reincarnation. But the fact that
the failed images of the Soul that did not
become "manifest"
continues to dwell as a sub-personality
within the House of the Soul, means that
both doctrines must be recognized as
"entry-level",
and both are misconceptions of a higher
reality that
"natural" man in his organic
condition of mind, is incapable of
comprehending. The Higher
Reality of the Soul that Paul warns is
incomprehensible from an organic condition
of mind, is explored at
http://SoulSelf.org .
What this
means is that the vast majority of people
don't remember the previous lives their Soul
lived, because the soul-image that they are
in the present, never lived those previous
lives. Yet, within the Higher
Reality of the Soul all the previous
incarnations that are portrayed as
soul-images in the Gospel of Thomas,
continue to live and dwell within the House
or Mind-Matrix of the Soul. And one of
the primary objectives of the Original
Teachings of Jesus and TheWay, was to free
the person they are in this world from that
condition that Jesus portrayed as the
"outer darkness"
of mind and being (
http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org ), and
open the connection to the being they are in
this world, with their higher Soul-Self --
and ultimately with the Final Stage of
Birth, to move into a Condition of
At-Oneness with the Indwelling Logos/Mind of
God.
The Gospels and the Original Teachings of
TheWay are based upon -- and founded upon --
the reality of mind and spirit presented in
the concept of Anamnesis. Jesus
condemned the leaders of the Jews
because in their carnal and outward
interpretation of the scriptures, they threw
away the
Key Of Knowledge. Which, when the
scriptures are properly turned within the
seeker/disciple's own mind and being,
enables them to escape this shadow-world of
the Far Country, and enter the Inner Kingdom
(see The Fatal Error Of The Church
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#third ).
And when rightly understood, the scriptures
are not at all historical accounts -- but
rather, allegorical portrayal of events and
realities of transformative consciousness
that must be brought about within the mind
and being of the seeker/disciple.
Therefore, the Gospel of Thomas as with all
scriptures, employ important symbols and
images as catalysts that connect the
physical mind of the seeker/disciple, with
the Inner Reality of the person's own Higher
Soul-Self that is portrayed as the elder son
in the parable of the prodigal son.
Every person who is alive today -- and has
ever lived and walked the face of the earth
-- possesses the innate ability to prove the
Truth of all Truths -- within their own mind
and being. Therefore, ultimately, no one
has an excuse for not knowing the Truth of
all Truths -- and following others in the
wrong direction. In the same way that the
faith-based followers of Jim Jones were
seduced into following their leader through
the gates of tragic and absurd evil, the
same is true of the intellectuals who
preside over the halls of modern academia.
In the same way that entry-level
requirements exist for virtually every one
of life's endeavors, this is also true of
the individual person's approach to studying
and understanding the scriptures, as well as
the higher purpose and realities of Life.
And in clarification, I am not at all
insinuating that everyone has the ability to
believe the truth -- or to read the truth
out of some book -- or to be taught the
truth in any of the ways that mankind
teaches or conveys opinions and human
knowledge -- but rather, every person has
the innate ability to Know the Truth by
virtue of their becoming a Direct Expression
and embodiment of the Truth through their
own Experiential connection with the Source
of all Truths. And it is the development
of this Innate Ability that was the
objective of the authors of the
scriptures. So much so, that it was for
this reason that Paul wrote and warned that
everyone is ultimately responsible for
Knowing the Truth of All Truths (Rom 1:19-20
and
The Sacred Language Of Creation). As
Paul wrote and warned, no one has an excuse
for not Knowing the Truth of all Truths --
and they will be ultimately held accountable
for their desire to seek and learn the Truth
of all Truths. Further, the only real
obstacle to knowing the Truth, is man's own
ignorance of their True-Self -- and their
True-Self's relationship to Creator-God.
Which is why the Gospel of Thomas proclaims:
"But
if you will not know yourselves, you dwell
in poverty and it is you who are that
poverty...".
Therefore, the only obstacle to Knowing and
becoming the Living Embodiment of the Truth,
is Self Ignorance. And it is this
Gospel objective of connecting and
eventually manifesting the Inner Self while
still physically alive in the body-vessel,
that is the basis of the opening statement
in the Gospel of Thomas which declares:
And he said,
"Whoever finds the interpretation of these
sayings will not experience death."
In the above section entitled
The
Restored Foundation, I demonstrate the
restored teaching on the pre-existent Soul
that has existed since the Alpha of
Creation, and is in the process of evolving
through the experiences of soul-generated
images in this world -- portrayed as the Far
Country (a.k.a.
Outer Darkness and Plato's Cave) -- and
when the Gospel declares that a
"house divided
cannot stand", the reference is
being made to the division between the
person we are in this world (soul-generated
image), and the source of our being that is
personified in the Gospel of Thomas as the
"likeness"
-- which is personified in the parable of
the prodigal son as the elder son who
remains in the Kingdom with the Father while
the younger prodigal son ventures into this,
the Far Country.
The Great
Question: Is the mind of an infant
empty? Or does the infant possess the
innate ability to tap into a pre-existing
source of knowledge within himself that
exceeds all of the wisdom of this world that
he could be taught in the traditional
manner? The scriptures are based upon the
process of anamnesis -- or, drawing from a
pre-existing source within the
child/person's own mind. Under the heading
of Anamnesis (Philosophy), the Wikipedia
states: It is the
idea that humans possess knowledge from past
incarnations and that learning consists of
rediscovering that knowledge within us.
The article then goes on to say:
Socrates' response
is to develop his theory of anamnesis. He
suggests that the soul is immortal, and
repeatedly incarnated; knowledge is actually
in the soul from eternity... What one
perceives to be learning, then, is actually
the recovery of what one has forgotten.
(Once it has been brought back it is true
belief, to be turned into genuine knowledge
by understanding.) And thus Socrates (and
Plato) sees himself, not as a teacher, but
as a midwife, aiding with the birth of
knowledge that was already there in the
student. While the English
language is spiritually dead, Jñāna in
Sanskrit means
"knowledge" -- but, like the
Greek word Gnosis, the word Jñāna portrays
Knowledge acquired through Meditation --
i.e., looking within one's own mind at a
deeper level.
This reality of the existence of a deeper
level of consciousness and an inner Source
of Knowledge is portrayed in the statement
by the Church Father Origen on using the
scriptures as the
Key of Knowledge where he wrote:
“But all the
narrative portion [of the scriptures],
relating either to the marriages, or to the
begetting of the children, or to battles of
different kinds, or to any other histories
whatever, what else can they be supposed to
be, save the forms and figures of hidden and
sacred things? As men, however, make little
effort to exercise their intellect, or
imagine that they possess knowledge before
they really learn, the consequence is that
they never begin to have knowledge".
It is important to take note of Origen's
statement that
"...As men, however, make little effort to
exercise their intellect, or imagine that
they possess knowledge before they really
learn" -- where reference is
being made to an Inner Source of Knowledge
that mankind possesses, even before they
even begin to learn in the traditional
outward manner. Further, Origen correctly
states with respect to the (allegorical)
text of the scriptures that
"...all the narrative portion [of the
scriptures], relating either to the
marriages, or to the begetting of the
children, or to battles of different kinds,
or to any other histories whatever",
do not at all pertain to historical accounts
of man's more distant past -- but rather,
are allegorical presentations of the Forces
and Laws that are presently working within
man's own mind and being. Why? How could
Origen who was called the prince of
Christian learning second only to the
Apostles themselves, state that the
historical interpretation of the scriptures
is "worthless"?
And that what is presented in the written
text as marriages, the begetting of
children, and the many various wars and
battles are not at all historical -- but
rather, an allegorical portrayal of the
Forces and Laws working within one's own
mind and being?
Paul correctly portrayed the written text
and narrative of the scriptures as the
"letter that
killeth [and] Jewish folktales"
(see 2 Cor 3:6; Titus 1:14). Why?
Because the literal text of the scriptures
is a quasi-historical facade that is
necessary for the very limited instruction
of the immature seeker -- with the true
spiritual meaning remaining preserved and
concealed beneath the garb of allegory (see
An Inconvenient Truth). The Church
Father Origen explained that
“Scripture contains
an unhistorical element in-woven with the
history, in order that the worthlessness of
the latter may drive us to seek the
spiritual meaning” (Origen quoted
under Origen Adamntius; The Encyclopedia of
Religion and Ethics). Further explaining
in De Principiis that:
“Where the word found that things done
according to the history could be adapted to
these mystical senses, he made use of them
concealing from the multitude the deeper
meaning; but where in the narrative of the
development of super-sensual things, there
did not follow the performance of those
certain events which were already indicated
by the mystical meaning, the scripture
interwove in the history the account of some
event that did not take place, sometimes
what could not have happened; sometimes what
could but did not.” And that
the carnal mind of both the blind believer,
as well as the skeptic critic, both attempt
to ignore these important inconsistencies
(see
Inconsistencies Purposely Written Into Body
Of Scriptural Text), and attempt to read
the scriptures as an historical account,
inhibits them from perceiving and
understanding the great truths that lie
concealed beneath the allegorical texts.
This is
why the Apostle Peter is quoted in the
writings of his disciple Clement as stating
with respect to the scriptures:
"...therefore great care is to be taken,
that when the law of God is read, it be not
read according to the understanding of our
own mind. For there are many sayings in the
divine Scriptures which can be drawn to that
sense which every one has preconceived for
himself; and this ought not to be done. For
you ought not to seek a foreign and
extraneous sense, which you have brought
from without" Why should the
scriptures not be read and understood in
accord with
"an extraneous sense, which you have brought
from without"? Because the
whole of the scriptures are an allegorical
presentation using and employing catalysts
that connect the outer physical
consciousness with the pre-existing inner
soul and spiritual consciousness -- which
when rightly understood, is the very essence
of the process of anamnesis. Therefore,
when you attempt to teach the meaning of the
scriptures, you negate the catalysts and
symbols that are contained in the scriptural
body, and you inhibit and atrophie the
development of those areas of mind that must
be developed in order to tap into this inner
Source of Knowledge. Further, this is why
Jesus commanded his disciples that they can
only have ONE TEACHER -- the True Prophet or
Logos -- that dwells within them at the very
Core of their Consciousness (see
True Prophet). With respect to this
ONE TEACHER that the followers of Jesus were
commanded to seek out exclusively, Peter
taught that he is
"...within the mind of every one of us, but
in those who have no desire of the knowledge
of God and His righteousness, He is
inoperative; but He works in those who seek
after that which is profitable to their
souls, and kindles in them the light of
knowledge. Wherefore seek Him first of all;
and if you do not find Him, expect not that
you shall learn anything from any other."
In their abandonment of the Gospel First
Principles and the One Source of the Truth
of all Truths that is drawn out through the
process of Anamnesis, the modern Christian
world has virtually nothing in common with
the purpose and objective of the Original
Gospel Teachings. But what this also means
is that the more we learn in the traditional
manner as embraced by academia, the more we
suppress those innate resources of mind that
have the ability to tap into this Inner
Source of Ultimate Truth (see Academia And
The Feminist Cultural War On Women
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org#AcademiaWarOnWomen
). And with respect to the true meaning of
the scriptures: the more we study
commentaries, attend Bible study groups, and
the teachings of traditional religious
institutions and authorities, the more we
alienate ourselves from the True and
Spiritual meaning of the Gospels.
Instead of developing those areas of the
mind that permit us to tap into and learn
directly from the Source of all Knowledge
and Truth, we turn instead to the (carnal)
opinions of men -- which is outlawed in the
New Testament (see
The
Rejection Of All Human Opinion:
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#HumanOpinion .
Mankind is portrayed in the parable of the
two sons as the younger son who abandons the
Kingdom of the Father, and squanders away
his divine inheritance on
"riotous living"
in this realm which is called the Far
Country -- also portrayed as the
"outer darkness"
of mind and being (see
Outer Darkness) -- which, when rightly
understood, parallels the analogy of Plato's
Cave of Illusions (see
Cave). In the
Gospel of Thomas this world is portrayed
in the rather profound statement: (56)
Jesus said, "He who
has come to understand this world shall
discover (only) a corpse, and whoever has
discovered a corpse shall transcend beyond
this world." Which implies the
reality, that the only means by which
mankind can be restored to his original
condition, is to transcend and move beyond
the limitations of this world -- i.e., the
Far Country that is not his place of
origin. And this was and remains the ONLY
objective of the authors of the scriptures
in the composition of their Sacred
Writings.
In
the same way that Paul was forced (because
of the spiritual immaturity of the
congregation of believers he taught) to
limit his teachings to a quasi-historical
"testimony"
of "...Jesus and
him crucified" -- warning that
even if it were possible to convey to these
baptized and confirmed Christians anything
beyond what Paul portrayed as the
"milk"
of the Gospel which is necessary for babes
in Christ who would reject the higher
spiritual knowledge and teachings as utter
"foolishness"
if he was to openly present the Truth to
them -- the authors of the scriptures had no
other choice than to utilize this
entry-level "milk"
designed for spiritually immature Christians
in the literal presentation of the
scriptures.
If
what Paul and the other Gospel Authors
stated is true, and there exist higher
realities and dimensions of being that are
totally inconceivable to the mind of the
undeveloped faith-based believer (see
Mysteries Of The Gospel ) -- and by
virtue of the immaturity of the faith-based
believers brought about by an embryonic
condition of mind which Paul portrayed as
the "natural"
mind of man -- and the limitations of this
embryonic condition of mind even inhibited
Jesus from conveying the true meaning of the
scriptures, and the higher reality of the
soul and the Kingdom to all but his inner
core of disciples (see
In The House - Taught In Parables) --
which means that the biblical authors were
therefore powerless to explain in any detail
and depth many of the most important Gospel
teachings and concepts in the literal text
of the New Testament -- then the spiritually
mature author's of the scriptures who were
themselves enlightened to these higher
realities, remained virtually powerless to
do anything more than to provide the people
with a list of do's and don'ts -- so that
the faith-based believers will be in a
position where they will be better able to
evolve to a mature understanding and
comprehension of the teachings of Jesus and
TheWay. To totally ignore these do's and
don'ts, without knowing the consequence of
one's choices and actions, is paramount to
walking out onto a freeway blindfolded.
The Law is that you, as a sincere seeker,
can never know any greater level of Truth,
than you are willing to live and manifest in
word, thought, desire and deed -- which
means that modern mainstream liberal
Christianity is virtually worthless.
Christians maintain that they are saved by
faith totally apart from their actions and
works -- and their salvation is guaranteed
from the moment they accept Jesus as their
personal Lord and Savior. But is this the
original teachings of Jesus? The Flawed
Doctrine Of Perpetual Redemption totally
ignores the many statements by Paul where he
warns: "For it is
impossible to restore again to repentance
those who ...then commit apostasy, since
they crucify the Son of God on their own
account and hold him up to contempt.. For if
we sin deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no longer
remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful
prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire
which will consume the adversaries."
(Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV). Why did Paul
make such a statement? Because the
original Gospel teachings in their original
form was one of spiritual transformation --
a process that would evolve the mind of the
seeker/disciple from their embryonic
infantile condition, to that of higher
spiritual maturity and Wholeness. Those who
reject these teachings and fall back into
the thinking and lifestyle of this world --
who willfully sin after coming to the
knowledge of the Gospel message -- are not
only unbelievers and apostates to the
teachings of the Gospels, but in Paul's
words these counterfeit believers crucify
the Son of God afresh. And, in total
opposition to what is preached in the modern
Churches, Paul warns that
"...there no longer
remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful
prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire
which will consume the adversaries."
These, and other such spiritual concepts,
were totally unacceptable to the fourth
century heathen Church of Rome -- and while
these few passages continue to exist, the
scriptures were corrupted (see
http://BibleCorruption.com ) in order to
make the Gospels support the doctrines of a
series of Roman Emperors who ruled over the
Church from the fourth century onward.
That the Church has abandoned the original
teachings of Jesus -- to the degree that
when it is proven that the fourth century
Church even edited and corrupted the very
words of God spoken to man (see
http://TheTenWords.com ) -- means that
until the Church itself repents of this
great sin against the Holy Spirit, they will
remain under a cloud of ignorance in an
exiled state in a Spiritual Diaspora. What
does Paul, the Apostle of faith say? To
the Romans he warns:
"Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For
if God did not spare the natural branches,
he will not spare you either. Consider
therefore the kindness and sternness of God:
sternness to those who fell, but kindness to
you, provided that you continue in his
kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut
off" (Rom 11:20-22 NIV).
Because the fourth-century Christians
entered into a covenant with Pagan Rome --
installing the emperor who was not even
baptized, as the head of the Church -- and
in a state of absolute arrogance, hunted
down and murdered all sincere spiritual
Christians and original Ebionite Nazirenes
who did not accept the religious doctrines
of the emperor -- even editing and
corrupting the very words of God spoken to
mankind -- the Church has not only been
"cut off"
-- but the Christians themselves dwell in a
Spiritual Diaspora under the cloud of
spiritual ignorance.
I
always found it truly amazing that readers
of the scriptures could read the words of
Paul where he states that the
"natural"
mind of the Christians who he had himself
taught, would reject the truths pertaining
to the higher reality of the soul and the
Mysteries of the Kingdom as utter
"foolishness"
-- portraying himself as an
"ambassador in
bonds" who was unable to speak
plainly. And from this perspective, the
best that Paul could do for those who he
portrayed as entry-level Christians who were
"babes in Christ",
was to provide them a series of do's and
don'ts that would assist them in evolving
through the stages of spiritual immaturity
that made it impossible for them to
comprehend the True Gospel Meaning and
Objectives. And then, these same people
who call themselves believers, ignore the
very core Gospel teachings to their own
demise (see
The Lie).
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“The disciples said to Jesus,
We know that you will depart from us. Who is
to be our leader?
Jesus said to them,
Wherever you are, you are to go to James the
righteous, for whose sake heaven and earth
came into being."
Who will be your leader? Quoting the Gospel
of Thomas: “The
disciples said to Jesus, We know that you
will depart from us. Who is to be our
leader? Jesus said to them, Wherever you
are, you are to go to Jacob the righteous,
for whose sake heaven and earth came into
being." In order to understand
this statement you must make the connection
to the Genesis account of Jacob -- the 12
sons which represent the 12 spheres of mind
as patterned in the Tree of Life (
http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org ) -- and
the transformation from Jacob to Israel
after prevailing over the Laws as
personified in the allegorical account of
Jacob wrestling with the angel by night, and
becoming Israel at dawn. This inward
struggle which brings about the refinement
of the lower nature and the transformation
of the organic human consciousness is also
portrayed in the words:
"We must through
many tribulations enter the kingdom of God"
(Acts 14:22). And only after
prevailing over the Laws can the reality be
portrayed in the words:
"Blessed are those
who do His commandments, that they may have
the right to the tree of life, and may enter
through the gates into the city. But outside
are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral
and murderers and idolaters, and whoever
loves and practices a lie" (Rev
22:14-15 NKJ).
If the text of
the Revelation represented the end of the
world, as is commonly believed by the
majority of Christians today, then we must
pose the question: Why are those who remain
outside the city portrayed as
"dogs and sorcerers
and sexually immoral and murderers and
idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a
lie"? Armageddon, then, indicates
the disciples personal tribulation described
as the "pangs of
birth", as he endeavors to
overcome his own lower carnal nature through
the crucifixion of what is symbolized by the
flesh, in order that he can possess the
Knowledge of the fruit of the Tree of Life,
transcend the natural barriers of this
world, and "enter
through the gates into the city".
So long as you use the name James without
making the connection to the allegorical
account in Genesis, it will remain
impossible to understand the words:
"...for whose sake
heaven and earth came into being."
When you
properly apply the scriptures as the Key of
Knowledge (see Application Of The Key Of
Knowledge
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge
) -- thereby turning the Gospels within your
own mind and being -- would mean that Jesus
from an allegorical perspective of Mind,
represents that condition and reality when
the person begins to connect with the
Logos/Son of God within them as personified
at At-Onement With The Logos/Son Of God
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#AtOnement .
But to bring this condition about, you must
become and embody all that is allegorically
personified in the name JACOB who people
call James. But since people worship
the condition of mind, and fail to embody it
by using the Gospels as the Key of Knowledge
( see The Application Of The Key Of
Knowledge
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge
). Then only those who seek out the Soul who
lives as Jacob who alone
"...have the right
to the tree of life" -- and in
gaining access to the Inner Kingdom by
entering through the
"narrow strait gate", are able
to "...enter
through the gates into the city".
And for this purpose
"...heaven and earth came into being."
In order to gain entrance into the inner
Kingdom, you must put on the Wedding Garment
of sinless purity (see
http://TheCall.Nazirene.org ). And if
you fail to become all that is embodied in
the name Jacob, you will be cast into the
"outer darkness"
of Mind and Being -- i.e.,
"'Friend, how did
you come in here not wearing wedding
clothing?' He was speechless. Then the king
said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and
foot, take him away, and throw him into the
outer darkness; there is where the weeping
and grinding of teeth will be.' For many are
called, but few chosen." (Matt
22:1-14).
Mankind
presently dwells in the
"outer darkness"
-- and as the lost prodigal sons and
daughters, they have been stricken with
Spiritual Amnesia (
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#SpiritualAmnesia
) -- unable to recall when they dwelt in the
Kingdom of the Father before venturing into
this, the Far Country. Stricken with
Spiritual Blindness (see Soul-Evolution -
Reincarnation And Soul-Development
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#SoulEvolution
). Functioning from what the biblical
authors portray as an
"animal-soul" level of
consciousness (see Animal-Soul
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal )
-- that is incapable of understanding the
spiritual meaning of the scriptures, or
their own higher Soul-Reality. Which means
that so long as you fail to seek out to
become Jacob the Righteous and the
transformation into Spiritual Israel, you
will remain spiritually blind and the victim
of spiritual amnesia -- dwelling perpetually
in "...the outer
darkness; there is where the weeping and
grinding of teeth will be.' For many are
called, but few chosen" .
With respect to the question: Who will be
your leader? It is impossible to come to
Jesus, without first seeking out
Jacob/James.
If every
Christian did as Jesus commands in the
foregoing, the Church would indeed be a
Temple of Light that enlightens the whole
world. But because the Church has followed
the error of the Jews and threw away the
Key of Knowledge in their outward,
literal and historical interpretations of
the scriptures, they have greatly inhibited
the believers from ever understanding the
spiritual meaning of the Gospels.
Resulting in the fact that every Sunday when
they preach from the pulpits of countless
Churches, what they are preachings is a
series of allegorical symbols that not only
they do not understand, but because of their
self-imposed state of profound spiritual
ignorance, they will never, ever
understand. Further, because the
translators of the scriptures continue to
misrepresent what is presented in the
original biblical texts, they render it
virtually impossible for the vast majority
of Christians to understand what is being
presented and taught. In the above teaching
the believer is commanded to seek out James
-- and yet, not only did no person exist in
biblical times who was named James, but the
name James remains virtually meaningless in
understanding what is being commanded by
Jesus. Yet, if the body of Christian
believers understood what is being conveyed
to them and would do as Jesus taught, the
whole world would become immersed in the
Spiritual Light of the Original Gospels
Teachings.
The name that
is being portrayed in the Gospel teachings
is Jacob -- and the reader is not being
taught to seek out a man named Jacob -- but
rather, when the
Key of Knowledge is properly applied to
the understanding of the scriptures, what is
being commanded is for the believer to take
on that condition of mind that is
personified in the name Jacob. But in
mistranslating the name James, the
translators have disconnected the reader
from the importance of the name Jacob in the
Torah and Old Testament. There is nothing
in the New Testament that provides an
understanding of the name Jacob -- or what
is personified in the name. And to
comprehend what is being conveyed in the New
Testament, the reader must be able to
reference and understand the portrayal of
Jacob that is presented in the Old
Testament. Therefore, while this is an
ultra-important teaching by Jesus, few
readers are able to even begin to understand
what is been presented and taught. But the
effect of this ignorance and mistranslation
that is portrayed in the name Jacob which is
both timeless and essential for a seeker to
comprehend, has the effect of alienating the
reader from the whole of the Gospel
message. The name Jacob is so important,
that Paul stated that God loved Jacob and
hated his brother Esau -- i.e.,
“For though the
twins were not yet born, and had not done
anything good or bad, in order that God's
purpose according to His choice might stand,
not because of works, but because of Him who
calls, it was said to her, The older will
serve the younger. Just as it is written,
Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated”
(Rom 9:11-13 NAS). And because important
New Testament Gospel teachings were removed
by the Church (see
BibleCorruption.com ), and believers
have been deprived of the connection between
the teaching of Jesus in Gospel of Thomas
#12 and the condition of mind personified in
the name Jacob, Christians today are very
much as Esau, and have been made apostates
to the Light and the Kingdom.
It is
important to understand that the New
Testament makes the long ignored and
profound statement that mankind in his
organic and
"natural" condition is of an
"animal-soul"
level of consciousness that is incapable of
comprehending both the true (spiritual)
meaning of the scriptures, the higher realty
of Indwelling Soul, and what Paul portrays
as the Mysteries of the Kingdom, as well as
the realities of the life that man is
living. And this ignored biblical fact is
explored in the subheading
What Difference Does It Make? And when
rightly understood, what is being taught in
the twelfth (12) saying of the Gospel of
Thomas, is universally imposing natural
organic limitations on not only all
Christians, but also all of mankind. The
answer to such profound questions as: Why is
there evil in the world? Why doesn't God
communicate directly with man? What is the
meaning and purpose of Life? The answer to
these and all other such questions, can only
be understood in the reality that is being
presented in the twelfth saying of the
Gospel of Thomas. In fact, unless you
understand and bring about the reality
portrayed in the twelfth saying, it will
remain impossible for you to understand any
of the other sayings in this or any other
Gospel or scripture.
When read
literally or historically, the command to
seek out James/Jacob the Righteous who was
known as the Brother of Yeshua/Jesus, makes
absolutely no sense. How can a modern
believer seek out a man who lived 2000 years
ago? And when properly translated and
Jacob/James is connected to the
personification of Jacob in the Genesis
Account, because what is being conveyed in
the twelfth saying of Thomas is not at all
understood, the person remains incapable of
comprehending ANYTHING of a deeper important
level of understanding. And this it can
correctly be stated:
"THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS,
BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. 'BUT IN
VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS
DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN'"
(Matt 15: 8-9). Thus, and in
their dogmatic ignorance, they can rightly
be portrayed as Esau-Believers. And
unless the seeker/believer understands what
Paul is portraying in his assertion that
"natural"
organic man who is at an
"animal-soul"
level of consciousness is incapable of
comprehending anything beyond the
shadow-images of this world that confuse and
obstruct his advancement (see What
Difference Does It Make ), regardless of
the assertion and declaration of faith and
belief, such a person will be unable to
comprehend the true meaning of the very
Gospel teachings they affirm.
In connecting
the command to seek out Jacob the Righteous
with the allegorical portrayal of Jacob in
the Book of Genesis, what is being presented
in the portrayal of Jacob and Esau is a
portrayal of the the two natures of mankind
-- i.e., the carnal that is ruled over by
the lower three kingdoms of man's lower
animal consciousness and nature, and the
latent and innate spiritual consciousness
that must be developed, expanded and made
manifest in the life of the
believer/seeker/disciple. When rightly
understood, the elder son Esau represents
the organic mental and animal consciousness
within each of us. Esau, the hairy man,
typifies the animal, which is the normal
level of consciousness for all of mankind in
his "natural"
state. The vast majority of the human
family let what is portrayed as Esau rule
over their consciousness -- but in
contradistinction the name Jacob means the
"supplanter", and in the line of
human development and unfoldment this man of
nature, Esau, must be supplanted by a higher
type of consciousness portrayed in the name
Jacob, the supplanter.
Esau was a
hunter -- he finds his pleasure in the realm
and consciousness of what can be portrayed
as the animal forces. The cravings of the
lower nature are in the ascendancy -- ruling
over his thinking and life -- to the degree
that Esau gave his birthright up to to
satisfy and appease his hunger. The
"red pottage"
mentioned in the allegory of the scriptures,
refers to the life substance and
consciousness of the body -- which
throughout these writings is often portrayed
as vital life-force, bio-energy -- and is
the "inheritance" that the prodigal son
squanders away on
"riotous living" and things of no
meaning. What Paul portrays as the
"natural"
or organic man, is the representative
reality of the undeveloped carnal man that
is the starting point in all mankind's
evolution. The natural man is not wise.
Esau was a hunter, and he loved carnal
pursuits and the fulfillment of his physical
appetites -- while ignoring Spirit. He was
not seeking development through the
deepening and expansion of his higher
resources of mind.
The
"ladder"
which is portrayed as the proverbial Jacob's
Ladder, represents step-by-step development
of the mind to receive and comprehend higher
realizations of Essential Truth. And
important reference to the Ladder of
Expanded Consciousness out of the Esau or
"animal-soul"
level of mind and being has been preserved
in the
Gospel of the Nazirenes where it states:
"God gives you all
truth, as a ladder with many steps, for the
salvation and perfection of the soul, and
the truth which seems today, you will
abandon for the higher truth tomorrow. Press
toward perfection." The Ladder
of Higher Mind and Consciousness that
supplants that which is portrayed as Esau or
the "animal-soul"
level of mind and being, must be brought
about one level of higher truth at a time --
i.e., “To whom will
he teach knowledge, and to whom will he
explain the message? Those who are weaned
from the milk, those taken from the breast?
For it is precept upon precept,
precept upon precept, line upon line, line
upon line, here a little, there a little”
(Isa 28:9-10).
The process of
Transformation is portrayed as climbing a
Ladder, because in order to even begin to
grasp the next rung on the ladder, the
person must let go and abandon the previous
level -- i.e.,
"...and the truth which seems today, you
will abandon for the higher truth tomorrow"
-- and because the vast majority of people
cling to their dogmatic
"milk",
and are unable to let go and advance onward,
often these necessary rungs can only be
climbed over the course of many lifetimes of
the Soul. When Paul portrays the
elementary teachings as the "milk" for
"babes in Christ" that was designed for
entry-level believers -- i.e.,
"And I, brethren,
could not speak to you as to spiritual
people but as to carnal, as to babes in
Christ. I fed you with milk and not with
solid food; for until now you were not able
to receive it, and even now you are still
not able; for you are still carnal"
(1 Cor 3:1-3 NKJ) -- which means that the
great body of faith-based believers who
cling to the elementary
"milk" of
the Gospel, can't even begin to fulfill the
very higher purpose and objective of the
Gospel teachings which are to supplant the
animal-consciousness of Esau with the higher
mature spiritual consciousness of Jacob
which is beyond the comprehension of the
organic "natural"
mind of man. And because they cling to the
"milk"
for immature
"babes", they totally inhibit
their spiritual development -- rendering
their lives spiritually impotent and
flat-lined.
 In
the account of Jacob's Ladder, there are
angels personified as ascending and
descending up and down the Ladder. And
this exchange of thoughts (angels) between
the lower and upper mind is the embodiment
of the commandment to seek no other teacher
than the Indwelling Logos/Son of God (see
The True Prophet). And this is why in
the earliest Christian writings, seeking a
teacher external to one's self, was
considered a sin that defiled the required
Wedding Garment that was necessary to gain
entrance to the Kingdom (see
Baptism As A Divine Marriage). And this
is why James 1:3 proclaims:
"Be not many of you
teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall
receive heavier judgment".
Why? Because unless the alleged teacher
has themselves brought about the
transformation of their lower nature and
climbed all the rungs of Jacob's Ladder,
they will convey pseudo-knowledge and
man-made dogma to those who they instruct.
In his
writings, Peter warned that anyone who seeks
out any other teacher (see
Baptism As A Divine Marriage) of this
world instead of the Indwelling Logos, has
in effect defiled the
"wedding garment", and remains
totally alienated from the true spiritual
meaning of the scriptures. Resulting in
the fact that all the commentaries, dogmatic
teachings, creeds and doctrines associated
with the Christian Church which all promote
the "milk"
of the Gospel, do more to alienate the
believer from the Kingdom and the Truth,
than to in any measure assist them. And
this is why Peter explains in the Homilies
of his disciple Clement that:
"...therefore great care is to be taken,
that when the law of God is read, it be not
read according to the understanding of our
own mind. For there are many sayings in the
divine Scriptures which can be drawn to that
sense which every one has preconceived for
himself; and this ought not to be done. For
you ought not to seek a foreign and
extraneous sense, which you have brought
from without". What this means
is that the scriptures and Gospels cannot be
comprehended when read from a human
perspective (see
Truth Cannot Exist In This World) -- and
the sincere Christian seeker is prohibited
from taking teachings and wisdom from
outside of their own mind, and attempting to
apply what is portrayed as
"...a foreign and extraneous sense",
and attempt to apply these manmade teachings
to the scriptures. Only those thoughts,
impressions, teachings which span the rungs
of Jacob's Ladder and originate with the
Inner True Prophet, are acceptable from an
original Gospel perspective. Which means
that all the biblical commentaries, all the
catechisms and official church teachings and
doctrines, all inhibit the believers
necessary development, and therefore
alienate the believer from the Truth and the
Kingdom.
In order to
even begin to be taught by the Indwelling
Logos -- and be prepared to receive the
Divine Manna which is portrayed in the above
as the "thoughts" that transverse the
connection through Jacob's Ladder between
the lower and higher mind -- the twelve
spheres, and especially the Intuitive
spheres of mind -- must begin to develop in
the manner that in the Genesis account,
Jacob is personified as having twelve sons,
and Jesus had twelve disciples -- all
representing the twelve spheres of mind.
Quoting a crucial paragraph from
The UnWanted Truth That Makes Men Free:
Why can someone
who is educated in our traditionally
cultural manner be portrayed as being
mentally flat-lined and spiritually
impotent? Because when the pattern of mind
is rightly understood, it is divided across
the spectrum of four mental-trinities which
comprise the mind as patterned in the
diagram of the
Tree of Life -- with the Feminine
Intuitive Column being limited by the three
Linear-Male Spheres which are paradoxical
opposites within the Divine Pattern of Mind
and Being -- and this reality of Mind is
demonstrated in saying 22 of the Gospel of
Thomas which reads: Jesus said to them,
"When you make the two
one, and when you make the inside like the
outside and the outside like the inside, and
the above like the below, and when you make
the male and the female one and the same, so
that the male not be male nor the female
female; ...then will you enter
the kingdom." This Original Teaching
that was suppressed by the Gentile Church
which portrayed itself as Orthodox, can only
be understood within the spectrum of the
pattern of the
Tree of Life -- and therefore, it has
little to no meaning to modern man. And
unless each person brings the reality
portrayed in this teaching about in their
own Mind and Being, they will remain
mentally flat-lined and spiritually impotent
-- incapable of advancing beyond the level
of what the Apostle Paul portrayed as that
of an "animal-soul"
level of comprehension (see
Organic Man Ruled Over By His Lower Animal
Nature). That the foregoing teaching
which is contained in the Gospel of Thomas
was important to the first century followers
of Jesus, is demonstrate in The Second
Epistle of Clement where this
ultra-important teaching that was removed
from the Gospels of modern Christians use,
is quoted as stating:
“Let us expect, therefore, hour by hour,
the kingdom of God in love and
righteousness, since we know not the day of
the appearing of God. For the Lord Himself,
being asked by one when His kingdom would
come, replied, 'When two shall be one, that
which is without as that which is within,
and the male with the female, neither male
nor female’”. What Clement is
stating in accord with the Original
teachings is that when the seeker/believer
brings this condition about within their own
Mind and Being, that the predicted and
expected Kingdom will come within them as
promised -- as stated in Jesus' teachings on
the Key of Knowledge (see
The Third Fatal Mistake - Not Proving The
Truth).
The bottom
line is that each seeker must become what is
portrayed in the name Jacob by supplanting
Esau. Only then can the twelve spheres of
mind as patterned in the
Tree of Life, begin to emerge. More
important is the fact that the Intuitive
spheres of mind must begin to develop and
become equal with the opposite Linear
spheres of mind in the outer columns of the
pattern of the Tree of Life -- with the
outer columns being the personification of
the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil --
only when these outer male and female
columns are brought together in the Center,
can the merger begin to take place between
the lower nature as personified in Esau and
the lower Earthly Kingdom, be merged with
the upper spiritual nature personified as
Jacob -- with the result being that the
seeker/disciple begins to experience what is
personified as the End Times or Armageddon
within their own mind and being --
initiating the next stage of birth and the
manifesting of the Kingdom within the mind
of the seeker. By overcoming the Laws
(allegorically portrayed as the angel with
whom Jacob has to wrestle), the seeker
becomes what is embodied in the name Israel.
The twelve spheres must then be converted
from tribes -- i.e., a divided multitude of
fragmented consciousness (see
The Enigma Of The Segmented Mind), into
Singular Disciples as portrayed in the
Gospels. And with the Anointing of the mind
through the baptism in the Jordan, can the
seeker become At-One with the Indwelling
Logos/Mind of God. And with respect to the
Gospel of Thomas saying 12, it was for this
purpose for
"...whose sake heaven and earth came into
being."
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The Gospel of Thomas
With usurps from the New
Testament Gospels
The Gospel of Thomas proclaims a unique and very different message
from the current "accepted" New Testament Gospels. In contrast to the way in
which he is now portrayed, Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas performs no
physical miracles, reveals no fulfillment of prophecy, announces no
apocalyptic kingdom, and dies for no one's sins.
Instead, Jesus provides insight and wisdom and offers a way of
salvation through the understandings of his teachings and words. The readers
of the Gospel of Thomas are invited to discover within themselves the
way of salvation, by interpreting the cryptic and enigmatic "hidden sayings"
of the living Jesus.
While modern Christians might be offended by the spiritual concept that one
must possess knowledge in order to receive salvation, what they fail to
realize is the acquisition of knowledge is in fact the very essence of New
Covenant thought. The whole of both the Gospel message, as well as the
Apostle Paul's doctrine that man is saved by Faith, is based upon the
threefold nature of man (physical, soul, spirit) and the indwelling Kingdom
of God (see Luke 17:20-21).
As the genuine believer begins their journey in The Way -- living a
Christ-like life wherein they reject the ways of this world and mold their
lives in strict accord with the teachings of Jesus -- and picks up their own
cross upon which the carnal nature of man become crucified -- great change
will transpire in their life as they make the transition from
temporal/carnal/natural to spiritual. They will find that an inner
door within their mind and being exists, and the more they walk in the
footsteps of the Lord, the more this inner door will open -- eventually
providing them access to the indwelling Temple of God. Thus, the
Knowledge of the Secrets Sayings and Mysteries of the Kingdom are received
by the Disciple of the Light in the manner that leaves grow upon a healthy
vine.
In the
late 19th century, several fragments of a Greek version of the "Gospel of
Thomas" were discovered among the Oxyrhynchys Papyri. These fragments
contained text common to all four Gospels. Then in 1945 a complete copy of
the Gospel of Thomas was found in Egypt with the discovery of the Nag
Hammadi Library. Most of its content can be found, sometimes word for word,
in the Gospels of the New Testament.
 It will be
impossible for the seeker to grasp the reality of not only the Gospel of
Thomas, but all the Gospels and all Scripture, without first understanding
the mindset and spiritual objectives of the authors of the Sacred Writings.
And for the first time in over 2000 years, the mindset and spiritual
objectives of the original authors has been revealed and made known in the
article, An
Inconvenient Truth. Further, important esoteric truths which
the church has suppressed and destroyed, has been re-established in the
article The Three Lies.
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These are
the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas
Thomas wrote down.
Greek POxy
These are the secret sayings which
were spoken by Jesus the Living One, and which Judas, who is called Thomas,
wrote down."
(1) And
he said, "Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not
experience death."
Greek POxy
He said to them: "Whoever hears
these words shall never taste death."
John 8:51
Verily, verily, I say unto you, if any one keeps my word, he shall never see
death."
(2) Jesus
said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he
will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and
he will rule over the All."
Greek POxy
2) [Jesus
said]: "Let him who seeks not cease until he finds, and when he finds he
shall wonder; wondering he shall reign, and reigning shall rest."
Oxyrhynehus
Papyri: "Yeshua (Jesus) saith,
let not him who seeks cease until he finds, and when he
finds he shall be astonished; astonished he shall reach
the kingdom, and having reached the kingdom he will
rest."
(3) Jesus
said, "If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the kingdom is in the sky,'
then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in
the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of
you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you
will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of
the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty
and it is you who are that poverty."
Greek POxy
3) Jesus said, "If those who attract
you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will
precede you. If they say to you, 'It is under the earth,' then the fish of
the sea will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom of God is inside of you, and
it is outside of you. [Those who] become acquainted with [themselves] will
find it; [and when you] become acquainted with yourselves, [you will
understand that] it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you
will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that
poverty."
Luke 17:21 "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;
nor will they say, 'Lo, here it is!' or 'There!' for behold, the kingdom of
God is in the midst of you."
(4) Jesus
said, "The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a small child seven days
old about the place of life, and he will live. For many who are first will
become last, and they will become one and the same."
Greek POxy
4) Jesus said: "Let the old man who
is full of days not hesitate to ask the child of seven days about the place
of life; then he will live. For many that are first will be last, and last,
first, and they will become a single one."
(5) Jesus
said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you
will become plain to you . For there is nothing hidden which will not become
manifest."
Greek POxy
5) Jesus said: "Recognize what is
before your face and that which is hidden from the you will be revealed to
you. For there is nothing hidden which shall not be made manifest, nor
buried which shall not be raised."
Matthew 10:26 "So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered that will
not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
Mark 4:22 For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is
anything secret, except to come to light.
Luke 12:3 Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden
that will not be known.
(6) His
disciples questioned him and said to him, "Do you want us to fast? How shall
we pray? Shall we give alms? What diet shall we observe?"
Jesus said, "Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are
plain in the sight of heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest,
and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered."
Greek POxy
6) His disciples asked him and said
to him, "How do you want us to fast? And how shall we pray? And how [shall
we] give alms? And what kind of diet shall we follow?"
Jesus said, "Do not lie, and do not do what you hate, for all things are
disclosed before truth. For there is nothing hidden which shall not be shown
forth."
(7) Jesus
said, "Blessed is the lion which becomes man when consumed by man; and
cursed is the man whom the lion consumes, and the lion becomes man."
(8) And
he said, "The man is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea and
drew it up from the sea full of small fish. Among them the wise fisherman
found a fine large fish. He threw all the small fish back into the sea and
chose the large fish without difficulty. Whoever has ears to hear, let him
hear."
Matthew 13.47 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was
thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind; 13.48 when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good
into vessels but threw away the bad.
(9) Jesus
said, "Now the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and scattered
them. Some fell on the road; the birds came and gathered them up. Others
fell on the rock, did not take root in the soil, and did not produce ears.
And others fell on thorns; they choked the seed(s) and worms ate them. And
others fell on the good soil and it produced good fruit: it bore sixty per
measure and a hundred and twenty per measure."
Matthew 13.3 And he told them many things in
parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow. 13.4 And
as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured
them. 13.5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground,
where they had not much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had
no depth of soil, 13.6 but when the sun rose
they were scorched; and since they had no root they withered away.
13.7 Other seeds fell upon thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
13.8 Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a
hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 13.9 He
who has ears, let him hear."
Mark 4.2
And he taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he
said to them: 4.3 "Behold! A sower
went out to sow. 4.4 And as he sowed, some seed fell
along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
4.5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it had not much soil, and
immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil;
4.6 and when the sun rose it was scorched, and since it had no root it
withered away. 4.7 Other seed fell among thorns
and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.
4.8 And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up
and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold."
4.9 And he said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Luke 8.4 And when a
great crowd came together and people from town after town came to him, he
said in a parable: 8.5 "A sower went
out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was
trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it. 8.6 And some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered away, because
it had no moisture. 8.7 And some fell among
thorns; and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
8.8 And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold." As he
said this, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
(10)
Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it
until it blazes."
Luke
12.49
"I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it
were already kindled!
(11)
Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass
away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. In the days when
you consumed what is dead, you made it what is alive. When you come to dwell
in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one you became two.
But when you become two, what will you do?"
(12) The
disciples said to Jesus, "We know that you will depart from us. Who is to be
our leader?"
Jesus said to them, "Wherever you are, you are to go to James the righteous,
for whose sake heaven and earth came into being."
(13)
Jesus said to his disciples, "Compare me to someone and tell me whom I am
like."
Simon Peter said to him, "You are like a righteous angel."
Matthew said to him, "You are like a wise philosopher."
Thomas said to him, "Master, my mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom you
are like."
Jesus said, "I am not your master. Because you have drunk, you have become
intoxicated from the bubbling spring which I have measured out."
And he took him and withdrew and told him three things. When Thomas returned
to his companions, they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?"
Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the things which he told me, you
will pick up stones and throw them at me; a fire will come out of the stones
and burn you up."
(14)
Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will give rise to sin for yourselves;
and if you pray, you will be condemned; and if you give alms, you will do
harm to your spirits. When you go into any land and walk about in the
districts, if they receive you, eat what they will set before you, and heal
the sick among them. For what goes into your mouth will not defile you, but
that which issues from your mouth - it is that which will defile you."
Luke 10.8
Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you;
10.9 heal the sick.
Matthew 15:11 Not that what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what
comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.
Mark 7:14 "Hear me, all of you, and understand:
7.15
there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the
things which come out of a man are what defile him."
Paul, Rom 14.14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing
is unclean in itself; but it is unclean for any one who thinks it unclean.
(15)
Jesus said, "When you see one who was not born of woman, prostrate
yourselves on your faces and worship him. That one is your father."
(16)
Jesus said, "Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have come to cast
upon the world. They do not know that it is dissension which I have come to
cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For there will be five in a
house: three will be against two, and two against three, the father against
the son, and the son against the father. And they will stand solitary."
Matthew 10.34
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to
bring peace, but a sword. 10.35 For I have come to
set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
10.36 and a man's foes will be those of his own household.
Luke 12.51 Do you think that
I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division;
12.52 for henceforth in one house there will be five divided, three
against two and two against three;
12.53 they will be divided, father against son and son against
father, mother against daughter and daughter against her mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her
mother-in-law."
(17)
Jesus said, "I shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard
and what no hand has touched and what has never occurred to the human mind."
Paul 1 Cor 2:9
But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart
of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him,"
(18) The
disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us how our end will be."
Jesus said, "Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the
end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who
will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not
experience death."
(19)
Jesus said, "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being. If
you become my disciples and listen to my words, these stones will minister
to you. For there are five trees for you in Paradise which remain
undisturbed summer and winter and whose leaves do not fall. Whoever becomes
acquainted with them will not experience death."
(20) The
disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what the kingdom of heaven is like."
He said to them, "It is like a mustard seed. It is the smallest of all seeds.
But when it falls on tilled soil, it produces a great plant and becomes a
shelter for birds of the sky."
Matthew 13.31 "The kingdom of heaven is
like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field;
13.32 it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the
greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and
make nests in its branches."
Mark 4.30
And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable
shall we use for it? 4.31
It is like a grain of mustard seed,
which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth;
4.32
yet when it is sown it grows up and
becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that
the birds of the air can make nests in its shade."
Luke 13.18
He said therefore, "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I
compare it? 13.19 It is like a grain of mustard
seed which a man took and sowed in his garden; and it grew and became a
tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches."
(21) Mary
said to Jesus, "Whom are your disciples like?"
He said, "They are like children who have settled in a field which is not
theirs. When the owners of the field come, they will say, 'Let us have back
our field.' They (will) undress in their presence in order to let them have
back their field and to give it back to them. Therefore I say, if the owner
of a house knows that the thief is coming, he will begin his vigil before he
comes and will not let him dig through into his house of his domain to carry
away his goods. You, then, be on your guard against the world. Arm
yourselves with great strength lest the robbers find a way to come to you,
for the difficulty which you expect will (surely) materialize. Let there be
among you a man of understanding. When the grain ripened, he came quickly
with his sickle in his hand and reaped it. Whoever has ears to hear, let him
hear."
Matthew 24.43 But know this, that if the
householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he
would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.
Luke 12.39 But know
this, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming,
he would not have left his house to be broken into.
12.40
You also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour."
Mark 4.26 And he
said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the
ground, 4.27and should sleep
and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not
how. 4.28The earth
produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in
the ear. 4.29But when the
grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
(22)
Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, "These infants
being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom."
They said to him, "Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?"
Jesus said to them,
"When you make the two one, and when you make the inside
like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the
below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that
the male not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes in the
place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a
foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the
kingdom."
This
important teaching exists in a parallel form in verse 12, of the 66th
chapter of the Gospel Of The Nazirenes:
And on said to him, Teacher, when shall the
Kingdom come? And he answered and said, When that which is without shall be
as that which is within, and that which is within shall be as that which is
without, and the male with the female, neither male nor female, but the two
in One. They who have ears to hear, let them hear.
And again in the 69th chapter
of the
Gospel Of The Nazirenes:
And
one of the disciples asked him, "How shall a man enter
into the Kingdom?" And he answered and said, "If you
don't make below as the above, and the left as the
right, and the behind as the before, entering into the
center and passing into the spirit, you will not enter
into the kingdom of God."
The Second
Epistle of Clement quotes the verse that before being
removed, was in the existing Gospel Teachings:
“Let us expect,
therefore, hour by hour, the kingdom of God in love and
righteousness, since we know not the day of the
appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by
one when His kingdom would come, replied, 'When two
shall be one, that which is without as that which is
within, and the male with the female, neither male nor
female’”.
In the Gospel According To The
Egyptians:
'When Salome asked when she would
know the answer to her questions, the Lord said, When
you trample on the robe of shame, and when the two shall
be one, and the male with the female, and there is
neither male nor female.'
The
Acts of Peter XXXVIII says:
"Concerning which the Lord saith in a
mystery: Unless ye make the things of the right hand as
those of the left, and those of the left as those of the
right, and those that are above as those below, and
those that are behind as those that are before, ye shall
not have knowledge of the kingdom."
Because the
original teachings on the Children were removed (see
The Verse Removed From The Gospels
http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#Children
), the
modern Christian does not possess the understanding to
comprehend the original Gospel purpose and objectives
(see
Children).
Matthew 18.3 and said, "Verily, I say unto
you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the
kingdom of heaven. 18.4 Whoever humbles himself like
this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
18.5 "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me;
Luke 18.16 But
Jesus called them to him, saying, "Let the children come to me, and do not
hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
18.17
Verily, I say unto you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a
child shall not enter it."
Matthew 5.29
If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is
better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown
into hell. 5.30 And if your
right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better
that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Mark
9.43 And if your hand causes you to sin,
cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to
go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. 9.44
9.45And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to
enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.
9.46
9.47And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it
out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with
two eyes to be thrown into hell, 9.48 where
their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
(23)
Jesus said, "I shall choose you, one out of a thousand, and two out of ten
thousand, and they shall stand as a single one."
(24) His
disciples said to him, "Show us the place where you are, since it is
necessary for us to seek it."
He said to them, "Whoever has ears, let him hear. There is light within a man
of light, and he lights up the whole world. If he does not shine, he is
darkness."
Luke 11.34
Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is sound, your whole body is
full of light; but when it is not sound, your body is full of darkness.
11.35
Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness.
11.36
If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be
wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light."
(25)
Jesus said, "Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil of
your eye."
(26)
Jesus said, "You see the mote in your brother's eye, but you do not see the
beam in your own eye. When you cast the beam out of your own eye, then you
will see clearly to cast the mote from your brother's eye."
Matthew 7.3
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the
log that is in your own eye? 7.4 Or how can you say
to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the
log in your own eye? 7.5 You hypocrite, first
take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the
speck out of your brother's eye.
Luke 6.41 Why do you
see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that
is in your own eye? 6.42
Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that
is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own
eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you
will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.
(27)
<Jesus said,> "If you do not fast as regards the world, you will not find
the kingdom. If you do not observe the Sabbath as a Sabbath, you will not
see the father."
Greek POxy 27) Jesus said:
"Unless you fast to the world, you shall in no way find the Kingdom of God;
and unless you sabbatize the Sabbath, you shall not see the Father."
Gospel of the Nazirenes
26:9:
"Except you fast from the
world and its evil ways, you will in no wise find the kingdom; and except
you keep the Sabbath and cease your haste to gather riches, you will not see
the Father-Mother in heaven.
(28)
Jesus said, "I took my place in the midst of the world, and I appeared to
them in flesh. I found all of them intoxicated; I found none of them
thirsty. And my soul became afflicted for the sons of men, because they are
blind in their hearts and do not have sight; for empty they came into the
world, and empty too they seek to leave the world. But for the moment they
are intoxicated. When they shake off their wine, then they will repent."
Greek POxy
28) Jesus said: "I stood in the midst of the world, and in the flesh I was
seen by them, and I found all drunken, and I found none among them thirsty.
And my soul grieved over the souls of men, because they are blind in their
heart and see not. [...]
(29)
Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, it is a wonder.
But if spirit came into being because of the body, it is a wonder of
wonders. Indeed, I am amazed at how this great wealth has made its home in
this poverty."
(30)
Jesus said, "Where there are three gods, they are gods. Where there are two
or one, I am with him."
Greek POxy
30) Jesus said: "Where there are
[two, they are not] without God, and when there is one alone, [I say,] I am
with him.
Matthew 18.20 For
where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of
them."
(31)
Jesus said, "No prophet is accepted in his own village; no physician heals
those who know him."
Greek POxy
31) Jesus said: "A prophet is not acceptable in his own country, neither does
a physician work cures upon those that know him."
Matthew 13.57 And they took offense at him.
But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor save in his own
country and in his own house."
Mark
6.4
And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own
country, and among his own kin, and in his own house."
Luke 4.24
And he said, "Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own
country.
John 4.43 After
the two days he departed to Galilee.
4.44
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
(32)
Jesus said, "A city being built on a high mountain and fortified cannot
fall, nor can it be hidden."
Greek POxy
32) Jesus said: "A city built on the
top of a high hill and fortified can neither fall nor be hid."
Matthew 5.14
A city set on a hill cannot be hid.
(33)
Jesus said, "Preach from your housetops that which you will hear in your
ear. For no one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel, nor does he put it
in a hidden place, but rather he sets it on a lamp stand so that everyone
who enters and leaves will see its light."
Matthew 10.27 What I
tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you hear whispered,
proclaim upon the housetops.
Matthew 5.15
Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it
gives light to all in the house.
Mark
4.21 And he said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a bushel,
or under a bed, and not on a stand?
Luke 8.16
" No one after lighting a lamp
covers it with a vessel, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand,
that those who enter may see the light.
Luke 11.33 "No
one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel, but on a
stand, that those who enter may see the light.
(34)
Jesus said, "If a blind man leads a blind man, they will both fall into a
pit."
Matthew 15.14 Let them alone; they are
blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a
pit."
Luke 6.39
He also told them a parable: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not
both fall into a pit
(35)
Jesus said, "It is not possible for anyone to enter the house of a strong
man and take it by force unless he binds his hands; then he will (be able
to) ransack his house."
Matthew 12.29
Or how can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he
first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house
Mark
3.27
But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he
first binds the strong man; then indeed he may plunder his house.
Luke 11.21
When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace;
11.22 but when one stronger than he assails him and
overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted, and divides his
spoil.
(36)
Jesus said, "Do not be concerned from morning until evening and from evening
until morning about what you will wear."
Greek POxy
36) Jesus said, "Do not worry from
dawn to dusk and from dusk to dawn about [what food] you [will] eat, [or]
what [clothing] you will wear. [You are much] better than the [lilies],
which [neither] card nor spin. And for your part, what [will you wear] when
you have no clothing? Who would add to your stature? It is he who will give
you your clothing.
Matthew 6.25
"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious
about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your
body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more
than clothing?
Luke 12.22
And he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about
your life, what you shall eat, nor about your body, what you shall put on.
12.23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
(37) His
disciples said, "When will you become revealed to us and when shall we see
you?"
Jesus said, "When you disrobe without being ashamed and take up your garments
and place them under your feet like little children and tread on them, then
will you see the son of the living one, and you will not be afraid"
Greek POxy 37) His
disciples said to him, "When will you be visible to us, and when shall we
behold you?"
He said, "When you strip naked without being ashamed, and take your garments
and put them under your feet like little children and tread upon them, then
you will see the child of the Living, and you will not be afraid."
(38)
Jesus said, "Many times have you desired to hear these words which I am
saying to you, and you have no one else to hear them from. There will be
days when you will look for me and will not find me."
(39)
Jesus said, "The Pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge
(gnosis) and hidden them. They themselves have not entered, nor have they
allowed to enter those who wish to. You, however, be as wise as serpents and
as innocent as doves."
Matthew
23.13 "But woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men;
for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in"
Luke 11.52
Woe to you lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not
enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering."
Matthew
10.16
"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as
serpents and innocent as doves.
(40)
Jesus said, "A grapevine has been planted outside of the father, but being
unsound, it will be pulled up by its roots and destroyed."
Matthew 15.13 He
answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be
rooted up.
(41)
Jesus said, "Whoever has something in his hand will receive more, and
whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the little he has."
Matthew 25.29
For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but
from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Luke 19.26 'I tell you, that to every one
who has will more be given; but from him who has not, even what he has will
be taken away."
(42)
Jesus said, "Become passers-by."
(43) His
disciples said to him, "Who are you, that you should say these things to
us?"
Jesus said to them, "You do not realize who I am from what I say to you, but
you have become like the Jews, for they (either) love the tree and hate its
fruit (or) love the fruit and hate the tree."
John 8.25
They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Even what I have told
you from the beginning. 8.26 I have much to say about you and much to judge;
but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard
from him."
Matthew 7.16 You will
know them by their fruits. 7.17
So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit.
7.18
A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
Luke 6.43 "For
no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;
6.44 for each tree is known by its own fruit.
(44)
Jesus said, "Whoever blasphemes against the father will be forgiven, and
whoever blasphemes against the son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes
against the holy spirit will not be forgiven either on earth or in heaven."
Matthew 12.31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be
forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
12.32 And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but
whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this
age or in the age to come.
Mark 3.28
"Truly, I say to you, all sins will be
forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter;
3.29
but whoever blasphemes against the Holy
Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
Luke 12.10 And every one who speaks a word
against the Son of man will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the
Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
(45)
Jesus said, "Grapes are not harvested from thorns, nor are figs gathered
from thistles, for they do not produce fruit. A good man brings forth good
from his storehouse; an evil man brings forth evil things from his evil
storehouse, which is in his heart, and says evil things. For out of the
abundance of the heart he brings forth evil things."
Matthew 7.16
You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from
thorns, or figs from thistles? 7.17 So, every sound tree bears good fruit,
but the bad tree bears evil fruit.
Luke 6.43
"For no good tree
bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;
6.44
for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from
thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. 6.45
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil
man out of his evil treasure produces evil; for out of the abundance of the
heart his mouth speaks.
(46)
Jesus said, "Among those born of women, from Adam until John the Baptist,
there is no one so superior to John the Baptist that his eyes should not be
lowered (before him). Yet I have said, whichever one of you comes to be a
child will be acquainted with the kingdom and will become superior to John."
Matthew 11.11 Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there
has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the
kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Luke 7.28
I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John; yet he who is
least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
(47)
Jesus said, "It is impossible for a man to mount two horses or to stretch
two bows. And it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters;
otherwise, he will honor the one and treat the other contemptuously. No man
drinks old wine and immediately desires to drink new wine. And new wine is
not put into old wineskins, lest they burst; nor is old wine put into a new
wineskin, lest it spoil it. An old patch is not sewn onto a new garment,
because a tear would result."
Matthew 9.16 And no one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old
garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is
made. 9.17 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins
burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is
put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."
Mark 2.21
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on
an old garment; if he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the
old, and a worse tear is made. 2.22And no one puts
new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and
the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for fresh skins."
Luke 5.36 He told them a parable
also: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old
garment; if he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will
not match the old. 5.37 And no one puts new wine into
old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be
spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 5.38
But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 5.39 And
no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, 'The old is good.'"
(48)
Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in this one house, they will
say to the mountain, 'Move Away,' and it will move away."
Matthew 18.19
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it
will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
Mark 11.23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to
this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in
his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done
for him.
Matthew 17.20 He said to them,
"Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as
a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to
there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you."
Thomas 106) Jesus said, "When you make the two
one, you will become the sons of man, and when you say, 'Mountain,
move away,' it will move away."
(49)
Jesus said, "Blessed are the solitary and elect, for you will find the
kingdom. For you are from it, and to it you will return."
(50)
Jesus said, "If they say to you, 'Where did you come from?', say to them,
'We came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its
own accord and established itself and became manifest through their image.'
If they say to you, 'Is it you?', say, 'We are its children, we are the
elect of the living father.' If they ask you, 'What is the sign of your
father in you?', say to them, 'It is movement and repose.'"
(51) His
disciples said to him, "When will the repose of the dead come about, and
when will the new world come?"
He said to them, "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not
recognize it."
(52) His
disciples said to him, "Twenty-four prophets spoke in Israel, and all of
them spoke in you."
He said to them, "You have omitted the one living in your presence and have
spoken (only) of the dead."
(53) His
disciples said to him, "Is circumcision beneficial or not?"
He said to them, "If it were beneficial, their father would beget them already
circumcised from their mother. Rather, the true circumcision in spirit has
become completely profitable."
(54)
Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven."
Luke 6.20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: "Blessed
are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Matthew 5.3
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven
(55)
Jesus said, "Whoever does not hate his father and his mother cannot become a
disciple to me. And whoever does not hate his brothers and sisters and take
up his cross in my way will not be worthy of me."
Matthew 10.37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not
worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of
me; 10.38 and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of
me.
Luke 14.26 "If any one comes to me
and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and
brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
14.27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot
be my disciple.
Thomas 101) <Jesus said,> "Whoever does not
hate his father and his mother as I do cannot become a disciple to Me. And
whoever does [not] love his father and his mother as I do cannot become a
[disciple] to Me.
(56)
Jesus said, "He who has come to understand this world shall discover (only)
a corpse, and whoever has discovered a corpse shall transcend beyond this
world."
(57)
Jesus said, "The kingdom of the father is like a man who had good seed. His
enemy came by night and sowed weeds among the good seed. The man did not
allow them to pull up the weeds; he said to them, 'I am afraid that you will
go intending to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them.'
For on the day of the harvest the weeds will be plainly visible, and they
will be pulled up and burned."
Matthew 13.24 Another parable he put before them, saying, "The kingdom
of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field; 13.25
but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat,
and went away. 13.26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the
weeds appeared also. 13.27 And the servants of the householder came and said
to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then has it
weeds?' 13.28 He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said
to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?' 13.29 But he said, 'No;
lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. 13.30 Let
both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the
reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but
gather the wheat into my barn.'
(58)
Jesus said, "Blessed is the man who has suffered and found life."
Matthew 11.28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest. 11.29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am
gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 11.30 For
my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
(59)
Jesus said, "Take heed of the living one while you are alive, lest you die
and seek to see him and be unable to do so."
John 13.33 Little children, yet a little while I am with
you. You will seek me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, 'Where
I am going you cannot come.'
John 7.34 you will seek me and you will not
find me; where I am you cannot come."
(60) They
saw a Samaritan carrying a lamb on his way to Judea. He said to his
disciples, "That man is round about the lamb."
They said to him, "So that he may kill it and eat it."
He said to them, "While it is alive, he will not eat it, but only when he has
killed it and it has become a corpse."
(61)
Jesus said, "Two will rest on a bed: the one will die, and the other will
live."
Salome said, "Who are you, man, that you ... have come up on my couch and
eaten from my table?"
Jesus said to her, "I am he who exists from the undivided. I was given some of
the things of my father."
<...> "I am your disciple."
<...> "Therefore I say, if he is destroyed, he will be filled with light, but
if he is divided, he will be filled with darkness."
Luke 17.34
I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken
and the other left. 17.35 There will be two women grinding together; one
will be taken and the other left." 17.36 17.37 And they said to him, "Where,
Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there the eagles will be
gathered together."
(62)
Jesus said, "It is to those who are worthy of my mysteries that I tell my
mysteries. Do not let your left (hand) know what your right (hand) is
doing."
Matthew 13.10 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you
speak to them in parables?" 13.11 And he answered them, "To you it has been
given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not
been given.
Mark 4.11
And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom
of God, but for those outside everything is in parables;
4.12
so that they may indeed see but not
perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn
again, and be forgiven."
Luke 8.10 he said,
"To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for
others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing
they may not understand.
(63)
Jesus said, "There was a rich man who had much money. He said, 'I shall put
my money to use so that I may sow, reap, plant, and fill my storehouse with
produce, with the result that I shall lack nothing.' Such were his
intentions, but that same night he died. Let him who has ears hear."
Luke 12.16 And he told them a parable,
saying, "The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully;
12.17 and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to
store my crops?' 12.18 And he said, 'I will do
this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will
store all my grain and my goods. 12.19 And I
will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take
your ease, eat, drink, be merry.' 12.20 But God
said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things
you have prepared, whose will they be?' 12.21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
(64)
Jesus said, "A man had received visitors. And when he had prepared the
dinner, he sent his servant to invite the guests.
He went to the first one and said to him, 'My master invites you.' He said, 'I
have claims against some merchants. They are coming to me this evening. I
must go and give them my orders. I ask to be excused from the dinner.'
He went to another and said to him, 'My master has invited you.' He said to
him, 'I have just bought a house and am required for the day. I shall not
have any spare time.'
He went to another and said to him, 'My master invites you.' He said to him,
'My friend is going to get married, and I am to prepare the banquet. I shall
not be able to come. I ask to be excused from the dinner.'
He went to another and said to him, 'My master invites you.' He said to him,
'I have just bought a farm, and I am on my way to collect the rent. I shall
not be able to come. I ask to be excused.'
The servant returned and said to his master, 'Those whom you invited to the
dinner have asked to be excused.' The master said to his servant, 'Go
outside to the streets and bring back those whom you happen to meet, so that
they may dine.' Businessmen and merchants will not enter the places of my
father."
Matthew 22.3
and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the
marriage feast; but they would not come. 22.4 Again
he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have
made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything
is ready; come to the marriage feast.' 22.5 But
they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his
business, 22.6 while the rest seized his
servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
22.7 The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those
murderers and burned their city. 22.8 Then he
said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those invited were not
worthy. 22.9 Go therefore to the thoroughfares,
and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.'
22.10 And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom
they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
22.11 "But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man
who had no wedding garment; 22.12 and he said
to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he
was speechless. 22.13 Then the king said to the
attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness;
there men will weep and gnash their teeth.'
22.14
For many are called, but few are chosen."
Luke 14.16
But he said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet, and invited many;
14.17
and at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had
been invited, 'Come; for all is now ready.'
14.18
But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have
bought a field, and I must go out and see it; I pray you, have me excused.'
14.19
And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them;
I pray you, have me excused.'
14.20
And another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'
14.21
So the servant came and reported this to his master. Then the householder in
anger said to his servant, 'Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the
city, and bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame.'
14.22
And the servant said, 'Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there
is room.' 14.23 And the
master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel
people to come in, that my house may be filled.
14.24
For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.'"
(65) He
said, "There was a good man who owned a vineyard. He leased it to tenant
farmers so that they might work it and he might collect the produce from
them. He sent his servant so that the tenants might give him the produce of
the vineyard. They seized his servant and beat him, all but killing him. The
servant went back and told his master. The master said, 'Perhaps he did not
recognize them.' He sent another servant. The tenants beat this one as well.
Then the owner sent his son and said, 'Perhaps they will show respect to my
son.' Because the tenants knew that it was he who was the heir to the
vineyard, they seized him and killed him. Let him who has ears hear."
Matthew 21.33."Hear another parable. There was
a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a
wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went
into another country 21.34 When the season of fruit
drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit;
21.35 and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and
stoned another. 21.36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first;
and they did the same to them. 21.37 Afterward he sent his son to them,
saying, 'They will respect my son.' 21.38 But when
the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir; come,
let us kill him and have his inheritance.'
21.39 And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
21.40 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to
those tenants?" 21.41 They said to him, "He
will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to
other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons."
Mark 12.1
And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, and
set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower,
and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.
12.2When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, to get from
them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
12.3And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
12.4Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in
the head, and treated him shamefully.
12.5And he sent another, and him they killed; and so with many
others, some they beat and some they killed.
12.6He had still one other, a beloved son; finally he sent him to
them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
12.7But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir; come,
let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
12.8And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of the
vineyard. 12.9What will
the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and give
the vineyard to others.
Luke 20.9 And he
began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and let it
out to tenants, and went into another country for a long while.
20.10
When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, that they should give
him some of the fruit of the vineyard; but the tenants beat him, and sent
him away empty-handed. 20.11
And he sent another servant; him also they beat and treated shamefully, and
sent him away empty-handed.
20.12
And he sent yet a third; this one they wounded and cast out.
20.13
Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved
son; it may be they will respect him.'
20.14
But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir; let
us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'
20.15
And they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner
of the vineyard do to them?
20.16
He will come and destroy those tenants, and give the vineyard to others." When
they heard this, they said, "God forbid!"
(66)
Jesus said, "Show me the stone which the builders have rejected. That one is
the cornerstone."
Matthew 21.42 Jesus said to them,
"Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The very stone which the builders
rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord's doing, and
it is marvelous in our eyes'?
Mark 12.10
Have you not read this scripture: 'The
very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner;
12.11this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
Luke
20.17
But he looked at them and said, "What then is this that is written: 'The very
stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner'?
(67)
Jesus said, "If one who knows the all still feels a personal deficiency, he
is completely deficient."
(68)
Jesus said, "Blessed are you when you are hated and persecuted. Wherever you
have been persecuted they will find no place."
Matthew 5.11 "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and
utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
5.12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men
persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Luke 6.22 "Blessed are you when men
hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you, and cast out your name
as evil, on account of the Son of man!
(69)
Jesus said, "Blessed are they who have been persecuted within themselves. It
is they who have truly come to know the father. Blessed are the hungry, for
the belly of him who desires will be filled."
(70)
Jesus said, "That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from
yourselves. That which you do not have within you will kill you if you do
not have it within you."
(71)
Jesus said, "I shall destroy this house, and no one will be able to build it
[...]."
(72) A
man said to him, "Tell my brothers to divide my father's possessions with
me."
He said to him, "O man, who has made me a divider?"
He turned to his disciples and said to them, "I am not a divider, am I?"
(73)
Jesus said, "The harvest is great but the laborers are few. Beseech the
Lord, therefore, to send out laborers to the harvest."
(74) He
said, "O Lord, there are many around the drinking trough, but there is
nothing in the cistern."
(75)
Jesus said, "Many are standing at the door, but it is the solitary who will
enter the bridal chamber."
(76)
Jesus said, "The kingdom of the father is like a merchant who had a
consignment of merchandise and who discovered a pearl. That merchant was
shrewd. He sold the merchandise and bought the pearl alone for himself. You
too, seek his unfailing and enduring treasure where no moth comes near to
devour and no worm destroys."
(77)
Jesus said, "It is I who am the light which is above them all. It is I who
am the all. From me did the all come forth, and unto me did the all extend.
Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find
me there."
(78)
Jesus said, "Why have you come out into the desert? To see a reed shaken by
the wind? And to see a man clothed in fine garments like your kings and your
great men? Upon them are the fine garments, and they are unable to discern
the truth."
Gospel of
the Nazirenes 18:13:
What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind,
or a man clothed in soft raiment?
Behold, they who are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in
kings'
courts.
(79) A
woman from the crowd said to him, "Blessed are the womb which bore you and
the breasts which nourished you."
He said to her, "Blessed are those who have heard the word of the father and
have truly kept it. For there will be days when you will say, 'Blessed are
the womb which has not conceived and the breasts which have not given
milk.'"
(80)
Jesus said, "He who has recognized the world has found the body, but he who
has found the body is superior to the world."
(81)
Jesus said, "Let him who has grown rich be king, and let him who possesses
power renounce it."
(82)
Jesus said, "He who is near me is near the fire, and he who is far from me
is far from the kingdom."
(83)
Jesus said, "The images are manifest to man, but the light in them remains
concealed in the image of the light of the father. He will become manifest,
but his image will remain concealed by his light."
(84)
Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your
images which came into being before you, and which neither die nor become
manifest, how much you will have to bear!"
(85)
Jesus said, "Adam came into being from a great power and a great wealth, but
he did not become worthy of you. For had he been worthy, he would not have
experienced death."
(86)
Jesus said, "The foxes have their holes and the birds have their nests, but
the son of man has no place to lay his head and rest."
(87)
Jesus said, "Wretched is the body that is dependant upon a body, and
wretched is the soul that is dependent on these two."
(88)
Jesus said, "The angels and the prophets will come to you and give to you
those things you (already) have. And you too, give them those things which
you have, and say to yourselves, 'When will they come and take what is
theirs?'"
(89)
Jesus said, "Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Do you not realize that
he who made the inside is the same one who made the outside?"
(90)
Jesus said, "Come unto me, for my yoke is easy and my lordship is mild, and
you will find repose for yourselves."
(91) They
said to him, "Tell us who you are so that we may believe in you."
He said to them, "You read the face of the sky and of the earth, but you have
not recognized the one who is before you, and you do not know how to read
this moment."
(92)
Jesus said, "Seek and you will find. Yet, what you asked me about in former
times and which I did not tell you then, now I do desire to tell, but you do
not inquire after it."
(93)
Jesus said, "Do not give what is holy to dogs, lest they throw them on the
dung-heap. Do not throw the pearls to swine, lest they [...] it [...]."
(94)
Jesus said, "He who seeks will find, and he who knocks will be let in."
(95)
Jesus said, "If you have money, do not lend it at interest, but give it to
one from whom you will not get it back."
(96)
Jesus said, "The kingdom of the father is like a certain woman. She took a
little leaven, concealed it in some dough, and made it into large loaves.
Let him who has ears hear."
(97)
Jesus said, "The kingdom of the father is like a certain woman who was
carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking on the road, still some
distance from home, the handle of the jar broke and the meal emptied out
behind her on the road. She did not realize it; she had noticed no accident.
When she reached her house, she set the jar down and found it empty."
(98)
Jesus said, "The kingdom of the father is like a certain man who wanted to
kill a powerful man. In his own house he drew his sword and stuck it into
the wall in order to find out whether his hand could carry through. Then he
slew the powerful man."
(99) The
disciples said to him, "Your brothers and your mother are standing outside."
He said to them, "Those here who do the will of my father are my brothers and
my mother. It is they who will enter the kingdom of my father."
(100)
They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to him, "Caesar's men demand taxes
from us."
He said to them, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to
God, and give me what is mine."
(101)
Jesus said, "Whoever does not hate his father and his mother as I do cannot
become a disciple to me. And whoever does not love his father and his mother
as I do cannot become a disciple to me. For my mother [...], but my true
mother gave me life."
(102)
Jesus said, "Woe to the Pharisees, for they are like a dog sleeping in the
manger of oxen, for neither does he eat nor does he let the oxen eat."
(103)
Jesus said, "Fortunate is the man who knows where the brigands will enter,
so that he may get up, muster his domain, and arm himself before they
invade."
(104)
They said to Jesus, "Come, let us pray today and let us fast."
Jesus said, "What is the sin that I have committed, or wherein have I been
defeated? But when the bridegroom leaves the bridal chamber, then let them
fast and pray."
(105)
Jesus said, "He who knows the father and the mother will be called the son
of a harlot."
(106)
Jesus said, "When you make the two one, you will become the sons of man, and
when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will move away."
(107)
Jesus said, "The kingdom is like a shepherd who had a hundred sheep. One of
them, the largest, went astray. He left the ninety-nine sheep and looked for
that one until he found it. When he had gone to such trouble, he said to the
sheep, 'I care for you more than the ninety-nine.'"
(108)
Jesus said, "He who will drink from my mouth will become like me. I myself
shall become he, and the things that are hidden will be revealed to him."
(109)
Jesus said, "The kingdom is like a man who had a hidden treasure in his
field without knowing it. And after he died, he left it to his son. The son
did not know (about the treasure). He inherited the field and sold it. And
the one who bought it went plowing and found the treasure. He began to lend
money at interest to whomever he wished."
(110)
Jesus said, "Whoever finds the world and becomes rich, let him renounce the
world."
(111)
Jesus said, "The heavens and the earth will be rolled up in your presence.
And the one who lives from the living one will not see death." Does not
Jesus say, "Whoever finds himself is superior to the world?"
(112)
Jesus said, "Woe to the flesh that depends on the soul; woe to the soul that
depends on the flesh."
(113) His
disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"
Jesus said, "It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of
saying 'here it is' or 'there it is.' Rather, the kingdom of the father is
spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
(114)
Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve
life." Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so
that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every
female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven."
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The Gospel of Thomas
In German
(E) Dies sind die geheimnisvollen Worte welche der lebende Yeshua sprach und
welcher sein jüdischer Bruder, der ihm gleicht, niederschrieb.
1) Er sprach: “Wer auch immer
die wahre Bedeutung dieser Worte findet über den hat der Tod keine Macht.”
2) Yeshua sagte: “Lass ihn der
sich auf die Suche macht, suchen bis er findet. Wenn er findet was er sucht,
wird er sehr verstört werden. Nachdem er verstört geworden ist, wird er
erstaunt werden, und dann wird er der Meister über Alles sein.”
3) Yeshua sprach: “Wenn eure religiösen Führer und Autoritätsfiguren zu euch
sagen: Schau, das Königreich des Vaters ist im Himmel, dann werden die Vögel
in der Luft vor euch dort ankommen. Wenn sie zu euch sagen: Es ist im Meer,
dann werden die Fische vor euch dort ankommen. Anstelle von all dem, müsst
ihr verstehen dass das Königreich des Vaters innerhalb von euch und
ausserhalb von euch existiert. Wenn ihr euch selber versteht, wird der Vater
euch anerkennen, und ihr werdet verstehen dass ihr die Kinder des lebenden
Vaters seid. Aber, wenn ihr euch nicht selber findet, lebt ihr in Armut und
IHR seid diese Armut”
4) Yeshua sprach: “Ein uralter Mann wird nicht zögern ein neugeborenes Kind,
das 7 Tage alt ist, zu fragen wo der Weg zum wahren Leben beginnt und wie er
zum Ort des Lebens kommt.. Aus diesem Grund wird er so den Weg zum Leben
finden. Viele die in der Welt die Höchsten sind kommen zuletzt an. Im
Endeffekt werden sie alle am Ziel ankommen.”
5) Yeshua sprach: “Wenn du die Welt siehst wie sie wirklich ist, und du
verstehst was wirklich in deinem Blickfeld ist, dann wird das, was vorher
unbekannt und unsichtbar war, verständlich und sichtbar werden. Es gibt
Nichts das heute verborgen ist und morgen nicht enthüllt wird.”
6) Seine Brüder und Schwestern fragten ihn : “Willst du dass wir fasten? Wie
sollten wir beten? Sollten wir den Armen Almosen geben? Welche Ernährung
sollten wir haben?” Yeshua antwortete: “Lügt nicht, begehe keine Taten die
deinem Geist abscheulich sind, denn der Vater sieht alle Dinge klar und so
wie sie wirklich sind. Denn nichts das heute verborgen ist wird morgen nicht
enthüllt sein.
7) Selig ist der Löwe über den der Mensch gesiegt hat. Verflucht ist der
Mensch über den der Löwe gesiegt hat, wodurch der Löwe zum
materiell-gebundenen Menschen wird.
8) Und er sagte: “Das Königreich des Vaters kann mit einem weisen Fischer
verglichen werden. Der Fischer wirft sein Netzt ins Meer und fängt damit
viele kleine Fische ein. Mitten in seinem Fang war ein wunderschöner,
grosser Fisch. Ohne zu zögern wirft er all die kleinen Fische zurück ins
Meer. Wer geistige Ohren hat versteht die wahre Bedeutung hier.
9) Yeshua sprach: Der Säher ging hinweg, nahm eine Handvoll an Weizen-Samen
und streute sie über die Welt. Manche fielen neben den Weg: die Vögel kamen
aus der Luft und sammelten die Samen. Andere fielen auf einen steinigen
Grund und konnten somit weder Wurzeln schlagen noch Ähren als Früchte
hervorbringen. Andere wiederum fielen auf Dornen, die bald die Samen
verschlingen und im Endeffekt zu Wurmfutter werden. Aber manche fallen auf
einen guten, reifen Boden und bringen gute Früchte hervor: 60ig mal und 120
mal mehr.”
10) Yeshua sprach: “Ich habe das geistige helle Feürr über dich gegossen und
schau her, ich bewache das Feuerr bis es weiss lodert”
11) Yeshua sprach: “Die materielle Welt wird vorübergehen und die Welt über
ihr auch. Diejenigen, die tot und ignorant sind leben nicht, aber diesenigen
die lebendig und wach sind, werden nicht sterben. In der Vergangenheit habt
ihr das eingenommen was tot ist, und habt es in etwas Lebendiges umgewandelt.
Wenn ihr ins Licht zurückkommt, was werdet ihr dann tun? In dem Tag wo ihr
komplett und ausgeglichen wart, habt ihr euch in 2 geteilt. Wenn ihr in zwei
geteilt seid, was werdet ihr dann tun?”
12) Die Wegbegleiter sagten zu Yeshua:”Wir wissen dass du uns verlassen
wirst. Wer wird uns den Weg zum Leben zeigen?” Yeshua sagte zu ihnen: Wo
immer ihr auch seid, findet Jakob. Seinetwillen sind Himmel und Erde
geschaffen worden.”
13) Yeshua sagte zu seinen Brüdern und Schwestern: Vergleiche mich mit
jemandem und sag mir wem ich gleiche”. Peter sagte zu ihm: “Du bist ein
geheiligter, rechtschaffender Botschafter des Vaters”. Matthias sagte zu ihm:
“Du bist ein Philosoph, der die Weisheit liebt”. Thomas sagte zu ihm:
“Meister, mein Mund ist komplett unfähig zu sagen wem du gleichst”. Yeshua
antwortete. “Ich bin nicht eürr Meister, sondern eür Bruder. Weil ihr von
der sprudelnden Qülle meiner Weisheit die ich austeile getrunken habt, seid
ihr betrunken.” Und er nahm Thomas zur Seite und verschwand mit ihm. Dann
offenbarte er ihm 3 Dinge. Als Thomas zu seinen Brüdern zurückkam, fragten
sie ihn: “Was hat Yeshua dir mitgeteilt?”. Thomas antwortete: “Wenn ich euch
nur eines von diesen Dingen erzähle die er mir mitgeteilt hat, würdet ihr
sofort Steine aufheben und sie mir nachwerfen. Dann aber bricht ein
geistiges Feürr aus den Steinen heraus, und es wird euch verzehren.”
14) Yeshua sagte zu ihnen: “Wenn ihr fastet um die religiösen Lehrer zu
beindrucken, werdet ihr eine Versuchung erfahren, zu sündigen, und wenn ihr
Idole anbetet, werdet ihr verurteilt werden. Wenn ihr Almosen gebt und etwas
als Dank erwartet, werdet ihr eurem Geist Schaden zufügen. Woimmer ihr
hingeht und durch die Strassen wandert, falls die Menschen der Welt euch als
Gast einladen, esst was sie euch anbieten and heilt die Kranken unter ihnen.
Was in euren Mund hineingeht beschmutzt euch nicht, aber was aus euren Mund
herauskommt, das ist es was euch beschmutzt.”
15) Yeshua sprach: “ Wenn ihr denjenigen seht der von einer geistigen und
nicht einer sinnlichen Frau geboren worden ist, streckt euch auf dem Boden
aus mit euren Gesichtern gegen den Grund und verehrt ihn. Dieser ist eür
Vater”.
16) Yeshua sprach: “Die sinnlichen Menschen denken dass ich vielleicht
hierhergekommen bin um Frieden in die Welt zu bringen. Sie wissen nicht dass
ich gekommen bin um Zwietracht zu sähen: ich bringe das geistige Feuer, und
das das intellektülle Schwert und ich komme um den Kampf der Materie gegen
den Geist anzuheizen. Im Haus der Menschheit werden 5 stehen: drei gegen
zwei, zwei gegen drei, der körperliche Vater gegen dein geistigen Sohn, der
körperliche Sohn gegen den geistigen Vater. Und am Ende werden alle
zusammenkommen und Eins sein.”
17) Yeshua sprach: “Ich werde euch das geben, was noch kein Auge gesehen
hat, was noch kein Ohr gehört hat, was keine Hand berührt hat und was dem
Verstand des Menschen noch nie in den Sinn gekommen ist.”
18) Die Brüder fragten Yeshua: “Sag uns wie unser Ende sein wird.” Yeshua
antwortete: “Da ihr nach dem Ende fragt, habt ihr denn den Anfang entdeckt?
Dort wo der Anfang ist wird das Ende sein. Selig ist der Mensch der sich zum
Anfang hinbegebt: er wird das Ende erkennen und über ihn wird der Tod keine
Macht haben.”
19) Yeshua sprach: “Selig ist der Mensch der im Geist geboren worden ist
bevor er im Körper geboren worden ist. Wenn ihr meine Wegbegleiter werdet
und auf meine Lehre hört und das tut was ich euch auftrage, werden diese
Steine der Weisheit euch unterstützen. Für euch gibt es 5 Bäume im Paradies
die sowohl im Sommer als auch im Winter unverrückbar verbleiben und deren
Blätter nicht hinunterfallen. Wer mit diesen Bäumen Frendschaft schliesst
über den hat der Tod keine Macht.”
20) Die Brüder fragten Yeshua: “Bitte erzähle uns womit das Königreich des
Vaters vergleichbar ist”. Er antwortete ihnen: “Es ist wie die Samen der
Senfpflanze, der kleinste aller Samen. Aber wenn es auf einen fruchtbaren
Boden fällt der gepflügt und richtig vorbereitet worden ist, entsteht daraus
eine grosse Pflanze die ein Obdach für die Vögel der Luft ist.
21) Miriam (Maria) fragte Yeshua: “Wem gleichen deine Wegbegleiter?” Er
antwortete “Sie gleichen Kindern die ihr Haus auf einem Feld gebaut haben
das ihnen nicht gehört. Wenn die Eigentümer des Feldes kommen, werden sie
sagen: “Gib uns unser Feld zurück”. Die Kinder werden sich vor den
Feldbesitzern entkleiden damit sie ihr Feld zurücknehmen können. Deshalb
sage ich euch, wenn der Besitzer eines Hauses weiss dass ein Räuber kommt,
wird er wachsam sein und aufpassen dass der Räuber Nichts von ihm stiehlt.
Dies bedeutet, dass ihr euch vor der sinnlichen/materiellen Welt hüten müsst.
Rüstet euch mit eiserner Stärke aus, ansonsten könnten die Räuber einen Weg
finden euch auszurauben, denn die Schwierigkeiten die ihr erwartet werden
sicher auftauchen. In euch muss ein Mann leben der genug Weisheit hat um das
zu verstehen. Als das Korn reif wurde, kam er schnell mit seiner Sichel in
der Hand und erntete die reifen Früchte. Wer geistige Ohren hat kann hören
und verstehen was ich sage.
22) Yeshua sah kleine Kinder, die Milch tranken. Er sagte zu seinen
Wegbegleitern: “Diese Kinder, die geistige Milch trinken, solche werden das
Königreich des Vaters finden”. Sie sagten daraufhin zu ihn: “Sollten wir
dann als körperliche Kinder ins Königreich kommen?” Yeshua antwortete ihnen:
“Wenn ihr den Körper und den Geist in Einklang bringt; wenn ihr das Äussere
wie das Innere und das Innere wie das Äussere macht, das Oben wie das Unten:
wenn ihr das Männliche wie das Weibliche in Einklang bringt und so
ausgleicht, dass das Männliche kein Mann und das Weibliche keine Frau mehr
ist: wenn ihr zwei Augen zu einem Auge macht und zwei Hände zu einer Hand
und zwei Füsse zu einem Fuss zusammenbringt: wenn euerr körperliches
Ebenbild dem geistigen Ebenbild gleicht: dann werdet ihr Eingang ins
Königreich erhalten.”
23) Yeshua sprach: “Ich werde euch aus der Welt herauziehen, Einen aus
Tausend und Zwei aus Zehntausend, und diese werden alle miteinander so im
Einklang sein als wenn sie nur eine Person wären”
24) Seine Brüder und Schwestern baten ihn: “Zeige uns den Ort in uns selbst
wo du lebst denn es ist für uns lebensnotwendig, dass wir nach diesem Ort
suchen”. Er antwortete ihnen: “Wer immer geistige Ohren hat, passt jetzt
auf: Im Inneren aller Menschen ist ein Funken Licht. Im reinen geistigen
Menschen des Lichtes ist ein besonders helles Licht, und es erleuchtet seine
gesamte Welt. Wenn das Licht im unreinen materiellen Menschen nicht scheinen
kann, dann lebt er in der Dunkelheit. Das Wort lebt im Inneren des Menschen,
und er selbst entscheidet ob er im Licht oder der Dunkelheit leben will”
25) Yeshua sprach: “Liebe deinen Bruder wie deine Seele und beschütze ihn
wie deinen Augapfel”.
26) Yeshua sprach, "Du siehst den Splitter im Auge deines Bruders, aber du
siehst nicht den Balken in deinem eigenen Auge. Wenn du den Balken aus
deinem eigenen Auge entfernst, und du klar sehen kannst, wie die Welt
wirklich ist, erst dann bist du in einer Position wo du deinem Bruder helfen
kannst, den Splitter aus seinem Auge zu entfernen.”
27) Yeshua sprach: “In Bezug auf das Fasten, fastet in dem Sinne, dass ihr
nichts von der materiellen Welt in euer Wesen einnehmt. Wenn ihr euch nicht
von der sinnlichen Welt abkoppelt, werdet ihr nicht das Königreich des
Vaters finden. Wenn ihr den Sabbat nicht als einen wahren Fastentag, an dem
ihr von den Versuchungen der Welt flieht, begeht, werdet ihr den Vater nicht
finden”.
28) Yeshua sprach über die Menge: “Ich bin zuerst in der Mitte eures Geistes
aufgetaucht und dann bin ich in eurer Welt erschienen. Ich fand euch alle
betrunken, aber niemand von euch war durstig. Mein Geist ist voller Kummer
wegen der Menschen, denn in ihren Herzen sind sie blind. Sie kamen leer in
die Welt und werden diese Welt leer verlassen. Im Moment sind sie betrunken.
Wenn der Rausch der Illusionen der materiellen Welt sich legt, dass werden
sie sich umdrehen und zu mir zurückkommen.”
29) Yeshua sagte: “Wenn die sichtbare Materie geschaffen wird weil sie den
unsichtbaren Geist als Grundlage hat, ist es ein Wunder. Wenn der Geist
aufgrund der Materie geschaffen wird, ist es das grösste Wunder. Ich bin
wahrlich erstaunt wie dieser grosse Reichtum sich in solch grosser Armut ein
Zuhause geschaffen hat.”
30/77) Yeshua sprach: “Ihr seid niemals ohne die Liebe des Vaters. Dort wo
zwei im Namen des Vaters zusammen kommen sind sie nie allein. Und selbst
dort wo nur ein Einzelner ist, bin ich bei ihm. Heb den Stein auf, und dort
findest du mich. Spalte das Holz, und dort kannst du mich ebenfalls finden.”
31) Yeshua sagte: “Kein Prophet ist in seinem eigenen Land willkommen, und
kein Arzt heilt diejenigen, die ihn schon kennen und daher seine Medizin
nicht mehr brauchen.”
32) Yeshua sagte: ”Keine Stadt, die auf einem hohen Berg steht und gerüstet
ist, kann vom Feind eingenommen werden, oder ihr Licht verstecken.”
33) Yeshua sprach: “Predigt und ruft das, was ihr mit euren geistigen Ohren
von mir hört, von den Hausdächern. Niemand zündet eine Kerze in einer Lampe
an und stellt sie unter einen Korb, oder versteckt das Licht an einen
verborgenen Ort, sondern stellt das Licht auf eine Laterne damit jeder, der
in die Stadt kommt oder die Stadt verlässt, das Licht sieht”
34) Yeshua sagte: “Wenn ein Blinder einen anderen Blinden an der Hand nimmt
und versucht, ihn zu führen und ihm den Weg zu zeigen, werden sie beide in
eine Grube fallen”
35) Yeshua sagte: “In das Haus eines starken Mannes kann nur dann
eingebrochen werden, wenn er zuerst geknebelt und gefesselt wird. Dann kann
der Räuber das Haus mit Gewalt übernehmen und den Mann ausrauben.”
36) Yeshua sagte: “Macht euch nicht von Morgens bis Abends Sorgen darüber,
welche materiellen Dinge ihr haben werdet. Der Vater wird euch alles geben
was ihr wirklich braucht”.
37) Seine Wegbegleiter fragten Yeshua: “Wann wirst du uns erscheinen und
wann werden wir dich sehen?” Yeshua antwortete: “Wenn ihr euch entkleidet
ohne Scham und ihr eure Kleidung wie kleine Kinder unter euren Füssen
zertrampelt, dann werdet ihr den Lebenden sehen und ihr werdet keine Angst
haben.”
38) Yeshua sagte” Viele von euch haben oft und lange darauf gewartet von mir
die weise Botschaft zu hören, da es niemand anderen gibt der euch den Weg
zum Leben zeigen kann. Es wird Zeiten geben, wo ihr nach mir sucht und ihr
werdet mich nicht finden können.”
39) Die Pharisäer, also die religiösen Führer und Autoritätsfiguren, sowie
die blinden Philosophen und “Gelehrten” haben die Schlüssel der Weisheit von
euch versteckt. Deshalb können sie weder selbst ins Königreich des Vaters
eintreten noch Anderen, die ins Königreich wollen, den Zugang gewähren.
Meinen Wegbegleitern rate ich: Seid schlau wie Schlangen und einfach wie
Tauben.”
40) Ein Weinstock wurde ausserhalb des Königreich des Vaters gepflanzt. Da
er nicht stark ist, wird er bei der Wurzel herausgerissen werden und
absterben. “
41) Yeshua sprach: “Derjenige mit einer guten geistigen und seelischen
Erbschaft, wird etwas in der Hand haben, und noch mehr erhalten. Derjenige,
der keine gute Erbschaft hat wird auch das Wenige, das er hat, verlieren.”
42-44) Yeshua verkündete: “Meine Wegbegleiter, seid Passanten und
Vorübergehende in der materiellen Welt. Seine Wegbegleiter fragten ihn:”Wer
denkst du dass du bist dass du diese Dinge zu uns sagen kannst?” Yeshua
antwortete: “Ihr versteht nicht wer ich bin, wer mich geschickt hat oder
woher ich komme aufgrund von dem was ich euch sage. Anstelle dessen seid ihr
wie die Judäer : denn sie lieben entweder den Baum aber hassen die Frucht
oder sie lieben die Frucht und hassen den Baum. Also sprach Yeshua: “Wer
gegen den Vater lästert dem wird verziehen werden. Wer gegen den Sohn
lästert, dem wird verziehen werden. Aber wer gegen den Heiligen Geist
lästert, dem wird nicht vergeben werden, weder im Körper noch im Geist.
45) Trauben werden nicht von Dornen-Bäumen abgepflückt, Feigen werden nicht
von Disteln geerntet, denn Disteln haben keine Früchte. Gute Menschen
schaffen Gutes aus ihrer geistigen Erbschaft und von dem, was sie
aufgespeichert haben. Böse Menschen schaffen Böses aus der Bosheit die sie
in ihren Herzen angesammelt haben, und verkünden böse Dinge. Aus dem
Überfluss des Bösen in ihren Herzen schaffen sie Böses”.
46) Yeshua sagte: “Von Adam bis zu Johannes dem Täufer, von all denjenigen,
die von einer körperlichen Frau geboren worden sind, gibt es keinen
Grösseren als Johannes den Täufer, dass er seine seine Augen nicht abwenden
soll. Aber ich habe euch gelehrt dass derjenige unter euch, der zu einem
Kind wird und somit das Königreich des Vaters erkennen kann, mächtier wird
als Johannes.”
47) Yeshua sagte: “Eine Person kann nicht zwei Pferde reiten oder zwei Bogen
schiessen. Ein Sklave kann nicht zwei Herren dienen, denn der Sklave wird
damit einen Meister ehren und den andreren vor den Kopf stossen. Niemand
trinkt alten Wein und will dann sofort gleich neuen Wein trinken. Neuer Wein
wird nicht in alte Weintaschen geleert, denn sonst könnten diese einen Riss
bekommen. Alter Wein wird nicht in neue Weintaschen geleeert, oder der alte
Wein könnte verderben. Ein alter Flicken wird nicht auf eine neue Kleidung
genäht, da sonst ein Riss entsteht.”
48) Wenn der Geist und der Körper in einem Wesen Frieden schliessen, werden
sie zu den Bergen sagen: “Geh anderswo hinweg! Und sie werden verrücken”
49/50) Yeshua sprach: “Selig sind diejenigen, die die Trennung von Körper
und Geist innerhalb ihres Wesens überwunden haben und nicht mehr gespalten
sind.. Sie sind die Auserwählten, und sie werden das Königreich finden. Ihr
seid aus dem Königreich der Ganzheit gekommen und dorthin werdet ihr
zureckkehren. Wenn die Machthaber der Welt euch fragen: “Woher seid ihr
gekommen?” antwortet ihnen: “ Wir sind aus dem Licht gekommen, von dem Ort
wo das Licht von sich selbst geschaffen worden ist und in seinem Ebenbild
erschienen ist" Und wenn sie euch dann fragen: “Seid ihr das?” dann sagt ihr:
“Wir sind seine Kinder, die auserwählten des lebenden Vaters. Und wenn sie
euch dann fragen: “Was ist das Zeugnis und der Beweis, dass der Vater in
euch lebt?” dann antwortet: “Es ist Bewegung und Rast”
51/52) Seine Wegbegleiter fragten ihn : “Wann werden die Toten Frieden und
Rast finden, und wann wird die Neue Welt kommen?” Und er antwortete: “Worauf
ihr wartet ist schon passiert, aber ihr seht es nicht”. Sie sagten:”In
Israel gab es 24 Propheten, und alle sprachen von dir.” Er antwortete: “Ihr
habt den Lebendigen vergessen, der in eurer Gegenwart lebt. Stattdessen habt
ihr nur von den Toten gesprochen.”
53) Seine Brüder und Schwestern fragten ihn: “Ist die körperliche
Beschneidung heilbringend oder nicht?” Er antwortete: “Wenn die körperliche
Beschneidung einen guten Zweck hätte, würden Väter ihre Kinder schon
beschnitten zeugen und sie wurden schon so von ihrer Mutter geboren werden.
Statt dessen, gibt es eine wahre Beschneidung, und diese findet im Geist
statt. Diese Art der Beschneidung ist ertragreich.”
54) Yeshua verkündete: “Selig und gesegnet sind diejenigen, die nicht an die
sinnliche Welt gebunden sind. Sie sind die “Armen” weil sie arm in Bezug auf
die materielle Welt sind. Ihnen gehört das Königreich des Vaters.”
55) Yeshua sagte: “Wer nicht seinen Vater oder seine Mutter hasst kann nicht
mein Wegbegleiter werden. Und wer auch immer nicht seine Brüder und
Schwestern verabscheut und mein Kreuz auf meine Art und Weise aufnimmt, der
ist meiner nicht würdig.”
56) Yeshua sagte: “Derjenige, der die Welt so sieht wie sie wirklich ist,
findet nur einen Kadaver. Derjenige der den Kadaver findet ist der Welt
überlegen.”
57) Yeshua sagte: “Das Königreich des Vaters ist wie ein Mann, der gute
Weizen-Samen auf ein Feld gesät hat. Sein Feind kam in der Nacht und säte
Samen von Unkraut auf dem Feld. Der Mann erlaubte es nicht, dass das Unkraut
aus dem Feld gejätet wird. Er sagte zu seinen Helfern: “Ich fürchte, dass
ihr, wenn ihr das Unkraut aus dem Feld herauszieht, den Weizen auch
herauszieht. Am Tag der Ernte könnt ihr das Unkraut richtig gut sehen, und
dann wird das Unkraut gejätet und verbrannt.”
58) Yeshua sagte: “Gesegnet ist der Mann der durch viel Mühsam, Drangsal und
Leiden sich selbst überwunden hat und den Weg zum Leben gefunden hat.”
59/60) Yeshua sagte: “Passt auf und sucht nach dem Lebenden Meister in Euch
während ihr im Körper lebt, bevor ihr sterbt. Nach dem Tod des Körpers
werdet ihr ihn nicht finden wenn ihr nach ihm sucht.” Sie sahen einen
Samariter, der auf dem Weg nach Judea war und ein Lamm auf den Schultern
trug. Yeshua fragte seine Wegbegleiter: “Was wird er Mann mit dem Lamm
anstellen?” Sie antworteten: “Er wird es schlachten und verzehren”. Er sagte
zu ihnen: “Wahrend das Lamm lebt, wird er es nicht verzehren, sondern erst
nachdem es tot und ein Kadaver ist.” Sie sagten zu ihn: “Auf eine andere
Weise kann es nicht geschehen”. Dann antwortete er ihnen: “Ihr solltet in
Euch selbst auch nach einem Ruheplatz suchen, damit ihr nicht zu einem
Kadaver werdet und jemand euch verzehrt.”
61) Yeshua sagte: “Zwei werden auf einem Bett rasten. Einer wird sterben,
und der andere wird leben” Salome fragte: “Wer glaubst du dass du bist dass
du auf meinem Stuhl sitzt und von meinem Tisch isst?” Yeshua antwortete:
“Ich bin derjenige der in der ungeteilten Ganzheit existiert. Ich habe von
meinem Vater einige Gaben ergalten.. Salome antwortete” Dann will ich deine
Wegbegleiterin werden”. Yeshua sagte zu ihr: “Derjenige, der die Spaltung
überwindet, wird voller Licht sein, aber wenn er weiterhin gespaltet bleibt,
wird er in Dunkelheit leben”.
62) Ich teile meine Geheimnisse mit denen, die meiner Geheimnisse würdig
sind. Lasst eure linke Hand nicht wissen was die rechte Hand tut.”
63) Yeshua sagte: “Ein reichter Mann, der sehr viel Geld besass, sagte: 'Ich
werde mein Vermögen benutzen dass ich sähen und ernten kann und mein
Lagerhaus mit der Ernte füllen kann. Somit wird mir an Nichts fehlen.' Das
war seine Absicht, aber er starb in der selben Nacht. Derjenige der Ohren
hat, soll hören.”
64) Yeshua sagte: “Ein Mann war vorbereitet auf Besucher, und nachdem er das
Abendessen zubereitet hatte, schickte er seine Diener, um die Gäste zu
finden. Der Diener fand den ersten Gast und sagte: “Mein Meister ladet dich
ein”. Der Gast antwortete: “Ich habe einige Kaufmänner, die mir etwas
schulden. Sie kommen heute Abend zu mir, und ich muss mich auf dem Weg
machen um sie zu treffen. Bitte entschuldigen sie mich von der Einladung.”
Der Diener ging zu einem andern Gast und sagte: “Mein Meister ladet dich ein”
Der Gast antwortete: “Ich habe gerade ein Haus gekauft und muss mich um
dieses Geschäft kümmern. Ich habe leider keine Zeit.”. Der Diener fand einen
dritten Gast und sagte zu ihm: “Mein Meister ladet dich ein”. Er antwortete:
“Mein Freund heiratet, und ich bereite das Bankett vor. Ich kann leider
nicht kommen. Bitte entschuldigen sie mich vom Abendmahl”. Der Diener fand
einen vierten Gast, und sagte zu ihm “Mein Meister ladet dich ein.”. Der
Gast antwortete: “Ich habe gerade einen Bauernhof gekauft und ich bin auf
dem Weg um die Pacht einzusammeln. Ich kann leider am Abendmahl nicht
teilnehmen, biite entschuldigen sie mich.” Der Diener kam zum Meister zurück
und sagte zu ihm: “Die Gäste die Sie zum Abendessen eingeladen haben
entschuldigen sich, denn sie können nicht am Abendmahl teilnehmen.” Der Mann
sagte zum Diener: “Geh hinaus af die Strasse und bringe diejenigen zurück,
die du findest, damit sie ein Abendmahl geniessen können. Geschäftsleute und
Kaufmänner kommen nicht in das Reich meines Vaters”
65) Yeshua sagte: “Ein guter Mann besass einen Weingarten. Er vermietete den
Weingarten an einige Pächter, damit sie den Garten bestellen können und
damit er die Ernte davon sammeln kann. Er schickte seinen Diener, damit die
Pächter ihm die Ernte des Weingartens übergeben können. Die Pächter
ergriffen den Diener und prügelten ihn und schlugen ihn beinahe tot. Der
Diener kam zurück zu seinem Herren und erzählte ihm, was passiert ist. Der
Herr sagte: “Vielleicht haben sie ihn nicht erkannt?” Er schickte einen
zweiten Diener, und die Paechter schlugen diesen auch fast tot. Dann
schickte der Herr seinen Sohn und sagte: “Vielleicht zeigen sie meinem Sohn
Respekt.” Aber die Pächter wussten dass der Sohn der Erbe des Weingartens
war, und deshalb ergriffen sie ihn auch und töteten ihn. Wer Ohren hat kann
hören.”
66) Yeshua sagte: “Zeig mir den Stein den die Erbauer von sich geweisen und
abgelehnt haben: dies ist der Schlusstein, der an der Spitze des Torbogens
liegt und alle anderen Steine zusammenhält.”
67) Yeshua sagte: “Diejenigen, die denken dass sie Alles wissen, aber sich
selbst nicht komplett von Innen und von Aussen kennen, wissen in
Wirklichkeit gar Nichts.”
68) Yeshua sagte: Ihr seid gesegnet wenn ihr von der Welt gehasst und
verfolgt werdet. Eure Verfolger werden den Ort der Rettung nicht finden, wo
auch immer ihr verfolgt worden seid.”
69) Selig sind diejenigen, die in ihren Herzen verfolgt worden sind: sie
sind diejenigen, die den Vater wahrlich kennengelernt haben. Selig sind
diejenigen, die nach dem Königreich des Vaters hungern, denn ihre Bäuche
werden gefüllt werden”
70/71) Yeshua sagte: “Wenn ihr denjenigen, der in Euch lebt, zur Welt bringt,
werdet ihr leben. Wenn ihr nichts vervorbringt, wird euch das, was ihr nicht
habt, umbringen. Ich werde dieses Haus zerstören, und niemand wird es wieder
aufbaün können, ausser mir.”
72) Jemand sagte zu ihm:”Befehle meinen Brüdern die Besitztümer meines
Vaters mit mir zu teilen. Yeshua antwortete: “Mein Freund, bin ich jemand,
der spaltet und zerteilt?” Er drehte sich um und fragte seine Brüder: “Ich
bin doch kein Spalter, oder?”
73) Yeshua sagte: “Die Ernte ist riesengross, aber es sind zu wenige
Arbeiter auf dem Feld. Bittet den Herren dass er mehr Arbeiter in die Felder
schickt.”
74/75) Jemand sagte: Herr, es sind viele bei der Wassertruhe, aber niemand
will trinken und gesund werden.”. Yeshua antwortete: “Viele stehen vor der
Tür, aber nur diejenigen, die heil und ausgeglichen sind, werden in die
Hochzeitskammer kommen”
76) Yeshua sprach: Das Königreich des Vaters ist wie ein Kaufmann, der einen
Haufen Waren hatte und eine Perle fand. Dieser Kaufmann war schlau: er
verkaufte alle seine Waren und kaufte dem Geld die Perle für sich selbst.
Dasselbe gilt für Euch: sucht nach dem Inneren Reichtum der euch nie im
Stich lässt und der daeurhaft an eurer Seite bleibt, dort wo weder die Motte
noch der Wurm eure Güter zerstören kann.”
77) Yeshua sprach: “Das Licht das in mir lebt ist dasselbe Licht das in Euch
lebt und sich über alle Dinge ausstreckt. Es ist das Alles: alles das
Geschaffen und Ungeschaffen ist sprang aus meinem Geist hervor, und alles
wird zu mir zurückkommen. Spalte ein Stück Holz, und du wirst mein
Bewusstsein dort finden. Hebe einen Stein auf, und dort lebe ich auch.”
78/79/80) Yeshua fragte die Menge: “Warum seid ihr hier aus der Stadt ins
Land gewandert? Damit ihr ein Schilfrohr sehen könnt, das vom Wind
geschüttelt wird? Damit ihr einen Mann wie Johannes den Taeufer sehen könnt,
der ein weiches, weisses Gewand trägt so wie eure religiösen
Führungspersonen und Machthaber? Jene tragen auch feine Kleidung, aber sie
verstehen die Wahrheit überhaupt nicht.” Eine Frau in der Menge rief:
”Gesegnet ist die Frau die dich geboren und gestillt hat!” Yeshua antwortete
ihr: “Gesegnet sind diejenigen, die das Wort des Vaters hören und seinen
Geboten wahrhaft folgen. Denn es wird eine Zeit kommen in der ihr sagen
werdet: “Selig sind diejenigen Frauen die keine Kinder empfangen haben und
deren Brüste keine Milch gaben.”
80/81) Yeshua sagte: “Derjenige, der die Welt so sieht wie sie wirklich ist,
hat in der Welt eine Leiche gefunden. Die Welt ist ihm nicht würdig. Lasse
jemanden der reich geworden ist die Macht haben, und lasse jemanden der die
Macht hat, die Macht aufgeben.”
82) Yeshua sagte: “Derjenige, der mir nahe ist ist dem geistigen Feür des
Vaters nahe. Derjenige, der mir fern ist ist vom Königreich des Vaters weit
entfernt”
83/84) Yeshua sagte: “Die äussere Form ist den Menschen sichtbar, aber ihr
inneres Licht ist verborgen im Ebenbild des Lichtes des Vaters. Er wird
enthüllt werden, aber seine Form ist durch sein Licht verdeckt. Wenn ihr
eure äussere Form seht, dann seid ihr zufrieden. Aber wenn ihr die lebenden
Formen seht, als die ihr zuvor gelebt habt, werdet ihr erstaunt werden:.
Diese Ebenbilder sterben weder noch werden sie sichtbar.. Wieviel werdet ihr
dann ertragen müssen!.”
85) Adam, der sinnlich gebundene Mensch, der vom Geist weggefallen ist, kam
von grosser Macht und grossem Reichtum, aber er war Euer nicht würdig. Wenn
er würdig gewesen wäre, hätte der Tod über ihn keine Macht gehabt.”
86) Yeshua sagte: “Füchse haben ihre Baue und Vögel haben ihre Neste aber
die materiell-gebundenen Menschen haben keinen Ort, an dem sie Ruhe und
Frieden finden können.”
87) Wie armselig ist der Körper der von dem toten Körper der Welt anhängig
ist, und wie armselig ist die Seele die an diese beiden gebunden ist.”
88) Yeshua sagte: “Die Botschafter und Propheten des Vaters werden zu euch
kommen und euch geben, was euch zusteht. Ihr, gebt Ihnen was ihr habt, und
sagt zu euch selbst: “Wann werden sie kommen und das nehmen was ihnen gehört?”
89) Yeshua fragte: “Warum wascht ihr das Äussere des Bechers? Versteht ihr
nicht dass der Vater der das Innere des Behälters schuf auch das Äussere
geschaffen hat?”
90) Yeshua sagte: “Kommt zu mir, denn mein Joch ist leicht und meine
Herrschaft ist sanft. Bei mir werdet ihr euren Frieden und eure Rast finden.”
91/92) Sie fragten ihn: “Sag uns wer du bist damit wir an dich glauben
können.” Er antwortete: “Ihr untersucht das Antlitz des Himmels und der Erde,
aber ihr lernt denjenigen nicht kennen, der neben euch steht und ihr wisst
nicht, wie ihr den gegenwärtigen Moment untersuchen und verstehen könnt.
Sucht und ihr werdet finden. In der Vergangenheit habe ich eure Fragen nicht
beantwortet. Jetzt will ich euch die Antworten geben aber ihr sucht nicht
nach dem Wissen und der Weisheit.”
93) Gebt nicht das, was heilig ist, den Hunden denn sie könnten es auf den
Misthaufen werden. Werft nicht Perlen vor die Schweine, oder sie könnten sie
zertrampeln.”
94) Yeshua sagte: “Wer sucht, der findet, und wer an der Tür klopft, dem
wird geöffnet werden”
95) Wenn ihr Geld habt, leiht es nicht mit einem Zins an jemand anderen.
Anstelle von dem, gebt es jemandem von dem ihr es nicht zurück erwartet.
96) Yeshua sagte: “Das Königreich des Vaters ist wie eine Frau. Sie nahm ein
bisschen Germ, versteckte es im Teig, und bakte damit viele grosse Brotleibe.
Jemand der geistige Ohren hat soll jetzt zuhören”
97) Yeshua sagte: “Das Königreich des Vaters ist wie eine Frau die einen
Krug voller Mehr trug. Während sie auf der Strasse wanderte brach ein Griff
vom Krug ab und Mehl begann neben ihr auf den Weg zu fallen. Sie sah es
nicht und merkte nicht, dass der Krug ein Loch hatte. Als sie nach Hause kan,
und den Krug niederstellte, sah sie dass er leer war.”
98) Das Königreich des Vaters ist wie ein Mensch, der einen Machthaber töten
wollte. Als er noch zu Hause war, zog er sein Schwert heraus und stiess es
in die Wand um zu sehen ob seine Hand hineinpassen würde. Dann tötete er den
Machthaber.
99/101) Seine Weggefährten sagten zu ihm: “Draussen vor dem Tor warten deine
Mutter und deine Brüder.” Yeshua antwortete: “Diejenigen hier, die den
Willen meines Vaters tun sind meine Mutter und meine Brüder. Sie werden ins
Königreich Gottes eintreten. Wer immer nicht seinen körper;ichen Eltern
hasst so wie ich kann nicht mein Wegbegleiter sein, und wer seinen geistigen
Vater und seine Mutter nicht liebt so wie ich kann nicht mein Wegbegleiter
sein. Denn meine körperliche Mutter, die mich geboren hat hat mich zum
körperlichen Tod verurteilt, aber meine geistige Mutter hat mir das wahre
Leben geschenkt.”
100) Jemand zeigte Yeshua eine Goldmünze und sagte zu ihm: “Die Machthaber
verlangen von uns Steuern.” Yeshua antwortete ihnen: “Gib den Machthabern
die Dinge, die ihnen gehören. Gebt Gott was Gott gehört, gebt Mir das Mir
gehört.”
102) Yeshua sagte: “Wehe den Pharisäern, denn sie sind wie ein Hund der im
Futtertrog dersViehs schläft: er hat nichts zu Fressen und er lässt auch die
anderen Tiere nicht essen.”
103) Yeshua verkündete:”Gesegnet ist derjenige der weiss, wann und wo die
Räuber in sein Haus kommen. Er wird wissen wann er aufstehen muss um seine
Besitztümer zu sichern und sich zu bewaffnen, bevor die Räuber zu ihm kommen.”
104) Die Jünger von Johannes dem Täufer sagten zu Yeshua: “Komm, lass uns
beten und fasten.” Er antwortete: “Welche Sünde habe ich begangen, dass ich
jetzt untergehen muss? Anstelle von dem, fastet und betet wenn der Bräutigam
die Hochzeitskammer verlassen hat.”
105) Yeshua verkündete: “Wer auch immer den wahren Vater und die wahre
Mutter kennt, der wird als das Kind einer Hure beschimpft werden.”
106) Wenn ihr die zwei Teile in ein Ganzes zusammenbringt, werdet ihr echte
Menschen werden, und wenn ihr dann sagt: “Berg, geh zur Seite”, dann wird er
verrücken.
107) Yeshua sagte: “Das Königreich des Vaters ist wie ein Schafhirte der 100
Schafe hütete. Eines, das grösste Schaf, ging verloren. Der Schafhirte liess
die 99 zurück und machte sich auf die Suche nach dem verlorenen Schaf und er
suchte bis er es fand. Als er nach all dieser Mühe zurückkehrte sagte er zu
dem Schaf: Ich liebe dich mehr als all die anderen 99 Schafe.”
108) Yeshua verkündete: “Wer sich die Worte, aus meinem Mund kommen
einverleibt und nach meinen Anweisungen lebt, wird so wie ich werden. Ich
selbst werde dieser Mensch werden, und Alles was verborgen ist wird sichtbar
werden.
109/110) Yeshua sagte: “Das Königreich des Vater ist wie ein Mann der ein
Feld besass in dem ein geheimer Schatz vergraben war, von dem der Mann
nichts wusste. Nach seinem Tod erbte sein Sohn das Feld, aber er wusste
Nichts vom Schatz. Er verkaufte das Feld. Der Käufer pflügte das Feld, fand
den Schatz und begann Geld mit Zinsen zu verleihen an wen immer er wollte.
Yeshua sagte: “Lass jemanden der die Welt so erkannt hat, wie sie wirklich
ist und reich geworden ist, seinen Reichtum weggeben.”
111) Yeshua erklärte: “Himmel und Erde werden in eurer Gegenwart
verschwinden, und wer das Leben vom Lebendigen bekommen hat wird nicht
sterben. “ Hat Yeshua nicht gelehrt: “Wer sich selbst gefunden hat, dieser
Person ist die Welt nicht würdig?”
112)” Wehe dem Körper der von der Seele abhängt. Wehe der Seele die vom
Körper abhängt.”
113) Seine Wegbegleiter fragten Yeshua: “Wann wird das Königreich des Vaters
ankommen?” Er antwortete: “Es wird nicht durch das Warten kommen. Niemand
wird sagen: “Schau, es ist hier” oder “Schau, es ist dort”. Anstelle von dem
sage ich euch: Das Königreich des Vaters streckt sich über die ganze Welt
aus, und niemand will es sehen.”
114) Simon Peter sagte zu ihnen: “Maria, die Frau aus der sinnlichen Welt,
soll uns verlassen, denn das Erdgebundene verdient nicht zu leben.” Yeshua
antwortete: “Pass auf, ich werde die sterbende Materie zum lebenden Geist
führen, damit sie euch gleicht. Ich sage euch: alles Weiblich-Materielles
das sich in Männlich-Geistiges umwandelt wird das Königreich des Vaters
finden.”
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In the recently discovered
Gospel of Thomas it is written: (12) The disciples
said to Jesus, "We know that
you will depart from us. Who is to be our leader?" Jesus
said to them, "Wherever you are, you are to go to James
the righteous, for whose sake heaven and earth came into
being." So to once again restore the
teachings of TheWay which is today known as
Christianity, the Lord has sent Jacob/James, the Brother
of Yeshua/Jesus, back into the world in order to guide
the faithful flock into the Truth, the Light, and the
Kingdom within (Luke 17:20-21). It is there that my
brother Yeshua/Jesus awaits you.
The above warning with
respect to the predicted corruption of Yeshua's
teachings is further stated in the first century
writings known today as the Clementine Recognitions
where it is written: "Our
Lord and Prophet, who hath sent us, declared to us that
the wicked one, having disputed with Him forty days, and
having prevailed nothing against Him, promised that he
would send apostles from amongst his subjects, to
deceive. Wherefore, above all, remember to shun apostle
or teacher or prophet who does not first accurately
compare his preaching with that of James, who was called
the brother of my Lord, and to whom was entrusted to
administer the church of the Hebrews in Jerusalem, — and
that even though he come to you with witnesses: lest the
wickedness which disputed forty days with the Lord, and
prevailed nothing, should afterwards, like lightning
falling from heaven upon the earth, send a preacher to
your injury, as now he has sent Simon upon us,
preaching, under pretense of the truth, in the name of
the Lord, and sowing error. Wherefore He who hath sent
us, said, ‘Many shall come to me in sheep’s clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits
ye shall know them.’"
Again it is warned by Clement:
"Wherefore observe the
greatest caution, that you believe no teacher, unless he
bring from Jerusalem the testimonial of James the Lord’s
brother, or of whosoever may come after him. For no one,
unless he has gone up thither, and there has been
approved as a fit and faithful teacher for preaching the
word of Christ, — unless, I say, he brings a testimonial
thence, is by any means to be received. But let neither
prophet nor apostle be looked for by you at this time,
besides us. For there is one true Prophet, whose words
we twelve apostles preach"
As
predicted, the ministers of Satan have succeeded in
altering the teachings of my brother Yeshua, and
continue to lead many into the abyss of darkness. But
have no fear my brothers and sisters, for the teachings
of TheWay has been restored so that you might be able to
overcome the darkness, and enter the Kingdom of Light
within you (Luke 17:20-21).
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The Brother Of Yeshua/Jesus:
2000
years ago I lived as Jacob who many all
James, and I was known as the Brother of
Yeshua and the first leader of the New
Covenant movement of TheWay which is today
known as Christianity. I was sent back into
the world to restore the teachings of my
brother Yeshua to their original spiritual
essence, and to guide you in TheWay that is
"narrow" so you will be able to open
the "strait gate" within you and
enter the Kingdom that Yeshua declared must
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The Ebionite HomePage:
If you
call yourself a Christian, Jew, Messianic
believer, Evyonim, Nazarene or Muslim, then
it is imperative that you learn of the
Ebionites who are True Spiritual Israel --
They are the Poor Ones to the ways
and thinking of this world -- The Ebionites
were the Israelites of the Nazirene Vow They
are/were the Genuine Disciples of Yeshua/Jesus
who are in the world and not of it! |
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The Nazirene HomePage:
The
original spiritual teachings of Yeshua/Jesus
as practiced by the people of The Way who
where known historically as the Essenes,
Ebionites, and Nazirenes. The teachings of
The Way are Spiritual -- and provide a means
to open the "strait gate" into the
Kingdom while still physically alive in the
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The Master Index:
The Index of Nazirene Ebionite web sites and
the Original Teachings of TheWay |
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The Ten Words:
That restores the teachings of Jesus and
TheWay to their original spiritual
environment. |
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Reincarnation - The
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The Light
Of Yeshua -- The Messianic Nazirene Disciple
of TheWay:
While many teach that believers are saved by
faith, the journey of the disciple of Yeshua
is one of absolute dedication to The Way.
The disciple who becomes a brother to Yeshua
must live as he lived, and become a Nazirene
who is consecrated and wholly set apart as
they walk the Narrow Way, enter into the
Kingdom through the Strait Gate, and learn
directly from the L-rd -- the One Rabbi and
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 Divine
Strategery: How God Fools Mankind - Keeping
Him Ignorant Of The Truth: Strategery
has become synonymous with when what is
portrayed as simple, simpleminded, or even
self-evident, is able to dupe and thwart an
opposing force that perceives itself to be
either superior, or to suppose they know the
answers. Divine Strategery is how God
fools all the religious leaders of this
world who think they
doctrinally
know God -- all the would-be teachers and
philosophers of this world who think they
Know Truth
-- all the Atheists and those who criticize
and denounce the existence of God by virtue
of their limited perception and
understanding -- and all the people in this
world who think they understand the purpose
of life and the world in which we presently
dwell. As prodigal sons and daughters of
our Heavenly Father, if the people in this
life knew the answers, then the learning
experience of
God's SchoolHouse of this world would
not effectively evolve us to become true
Brothers and Sisters of our Elder Brother
Yeshua/Jesus. Therefore, in order to insure
that each of us is immersed in the necessary
learning experience that this life offers,
all people are equally fooled into thinking
they know, in order for them to be
manipulated into embracing a higher agenda
that is beyond their ability to even
imagine. Thus, Divine Strategery!!!
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The
Pre-Existent Soul of Mankind: Jesus
taught the reality of the pre-existent soul
that evolves to perfection over the course
of many lifetimes. The Church adheres to the
doctrine and theology of a Circus Prostitute
and a Roman Emperor who maintained absolute
control over what Christians were permitted
to believe! Christians continue to cling to
the theology of this Circus Prostitute today
- rejecting the teachings of Jesus, while
adhering to the doctrines of Pagan Rome. The
mass confusion of an uncountable number of
sects today, is the direct result of the
void which was brought about when this
foundational concept was removed from both
the Bible, as well as Christian doctrine.
The doctrinal quagmire which was brought
about with the removal of this foundational
teaching, obstructs Christians growth and
maturity beyond the entry-level simple
faith. Because they adhere to the corrupted
doctrines of men, modern Christians can't
inherit the Biblical Promise of entering the
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Being Of
Light: Who are we? What are
we? From where have we come? What is our
destiny? To the demise of those who read
these words, only a handful of people today
can answer these all-important crucial
questions correctly! The rest dwell under
the cloud of unknowing -- and if you think
you are the person whose reflection you see
in the mirror, then you are a stranger to
your true self and have made yourself part
of the illusion of this world. With great
wisdom Yeshua/Jesus is quoted in The Books
of the Savior, also known as Pistis Sophia
(Faith-Wisdom): "Do
not cease seeking day or night, and do not
let yourselves relax until you have found
all the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Light,
which will purify you and make you into Pure
Light and lead you into the Kingdom of
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Gospel of
the Nazirenes -- Gospel Of Light:
What did the Gospels look like
before being edited and re-written by the
Church of Rome? What were the original
beliefs of the first followers of Yeshua?
You will be astonished when you read a
surviving text of The Gospel of the
Nazirenes which was hidden away from the
corrupters of the Roman Church. Are you
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The Gate Of
Eden: Why were the
Nazirene/Ebionites vegetarian? Why did they
live in accordance with the precepts of the
Torah/Law? Why did they live separate and
apart from both Jews and Christians? The
answer is very simple: The Gate of Eden is
within us, and if we fail to enter therein
while we are still physically alive in the
body, we will have failed in our opportunity
to enter into Life. And while it can be
countered that we are saved by our belief in
Messiah/Christ, faith, or the blood of the
lamb, the truth is that if we were truly
faithful disciples of TheWay, that we would
experience the opening of the inner door and
the Kingdom coming within us. The
GateOfEden article explores all aspects of
the need to pick up one's own cross and
follow the narrow path that leads to the
inner gate to the Edenic Kingdom of
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To Know
Thyself
To
GOD
One of the primary objectives of all
religious paths is The
Heightening And Expansion Of Mind.
Which means that you not only have
to overcome the limitations of the
brain and physical body-vessel, but
you have to grow and evolve your
facilities of mind that enable you
to bring about the next stage of
birth, and become ONE with your
Unknown Self -- which can be
portrayed as your higher soul-self.
When the Buddha became
Enlightened, he did not arise and
preach God to the people in the
manner of the Hindus, because he
moved past their spiritual
immaturity and found the seat of
self. In like manner, the Gospel
of Thomas which opens with the
statement that you must find the
true meaning to the teachings
herein, if you are to overcome death
-- and thereafter he states: "But
if you will not know yourselves, you
dwell in poverty and it is you who
are that poverty... Whoever
finds himself is superior to the
world".
And while the spiritually immature
preach and teach God, the focus of
the words in the Gospel of Thomas is
Knowing Self. Why? Because it is
impossible to Know God from a human
perspective, without first Knowing
and Becoming one's True Self. In
Gospel Of Thomas saying 84, the
image-self does not rejoice over
seeing God -- but rather, their
likeness, which is their True Self
-- i.e., their higher Soul-Self.
Saying 84 does not proclaim: When
you see God you rejoice -- but when
you see those (people) who did not
become manifest,
"...how
much you [sorrow] will have to
bear!"
The Law is that all things must
return to its source. The esoteric
truths that could only be revealed
to those who had moved beyond what
Paul portrayed as the elementary and
entry level parabolic teachings (see
Mystery Of The Gospel) -- and
was portrayed as those who were able
to
Enter Into The House -- was the
higher reality of the soul that is a
Being of Light, and does not
incarnate into the body. And in
accordance with the Laws, in the
same way that your soul must return
to it's Source, you must return to
your source. Your source is your
higher soul-self -- of which you
began your existence at conception
in this life as an embryonic image
of (see Man
As An Embryonic Soul-Image).
And it is through these cycles of
birth, development and return, that
the soul-self evolves to perfection
through the experiential knowledge
gained in the life of each
embryonic-image that is generated
into this world. Holographically,
your higher soul-self must in the
Omega, return to its Source, which
is Creator-God. The spiritually
immature attempt to skip over their
True Self, which is their higher
Soul-Self -- i.e., "But
if you will not know yourselves, you
dwell in poverty and it is you who
are that poverty..." --
and they preach God.
If you
stand before the carnal and
spiritually immature people of this
world and proclaim that God revealed
this or that to you, then they will
not only listen -- but they will do
your bidding and even give you their
money and allegiance. And thus,
the leaders of the spiritually
immature have been preaching God and
depriving their brothers and sisters
of Life, since the dawn of time
itself. If, on the other hand, you
stood before the carnal and
spiritually immature and stated that
your true self revealed esoteric
knowledge to you that will help them
overcome their plight in the "outer
darkness" of
mind and being of this world (see Outer
Darkness), they will
condemn and reject you as a "madman" as
portrayed in the analogy of Plato's
Cave. If, on the other
hand, the person who escaped the
illusions of the Cave of this world
came and told the other prisoners
that they escaped to heaven and saw
God, the prisoners inside the cave
would proclaim this person a prophet
-- or, even God incarnate. But the
very fact that the few who actually
escape the Cave of Illusions of this
world, attempt to convey to the
prisoners the reality of Self that
the Gospel of Thomas states you must
come to Know, causes the prisoners
to condemn these few who escape the
Cave of Illusions as heretics,
madmen, and demon-possessed.
The
forbidden fruit of the Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil (Tree of
Duality) is in fact the embodiment
of the Divine Pattern of Creation
which is holographically imbued with
the PARADOXICAL duality of male and
female in their infinite forms and
expressions. A paradox is two
opposite and often conflicting
truths that oppose each other even
though they are both equally true.
And when rightly understood,
forbidden fruit of the paradoxical
opposites of the Tree of Duality can
only be rectified on a higher plane
(see The
Triangle in The Way Of The Monk)
-- and if you eat (ingest) the one
truth while discarding or rejecting
its opposite, then the eating of
this fruit/truth sustains you in a
state of (spiritual) death. And
one of the greatest of man's
paradoxes which confront him, is the
reality that while all of Creation
dwells within the Mind of God, man
dwells within God by PROXY --
meaning that while your higher
soul-self is the direct offspring of
Creator-God, you are the direct
offspring of your higher soul-self
-- i.e., "But
if you will not know yourselves, you
dwell in poverty and it is you who
are that poverty...".
As a
generated thought-image of your
higher soul-self who is neither male
nor female or any of the races --
and is a Being
Of Light of
pure vital life-force and manifest
intellect -- it is impossible for
you to become One with God --
because you dwell within the Mind of
God by proxy -- and it is your
higher soul-self that must return to
its Source, which is Creator-God.
And in not understanding the
Cosmology of Mind and the many
images that make up the higher
Soul-Self, or True Self that is not
manifest in this physical world, you
will mentally and spiritually
flat-line in the manner of the
Hindus who preached God to the
people, in the time of the Buddha.
And since the person you are very
much the ego-self in relation to
your unmanifest higher soul-self
(see The
Divine Counterpart), then you
lose yourself by becoming the "good
ground" within
which the embryonic image of your
higher soul-self has been planted
(see Sower
And The Seed) -- and as you find
and become your True Self, you will
be working to bring about that
condition where your True Self can
then return to its Source -- which
is Creator-God.
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The Shepherd of Hermas
was one of the most popular
books produced in the early
Christian Church, and up
until the fourth century,
was frequently quoted and
regarded as inspired. The
book is a picturesque
religious allegory, in most
of which a rugged figure
dressed like a shepherd is
Hermas' guide. The purpose
of The Shepherd was
to call clergy and laity
responsible for grave
disorders in the Roman
culture to penance. Because
present-day Christianity is
imbued with these same Roman
cultural disorders, the
Shepherd is as appropriate
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The Jewish Scribes and
lawyers had a perfect
theological knowledge of the
Old Testament but Jesus
said,
“Woe unto you, for ye
have taken away the key of
knowledge!” The
idea that Jesus condemned
the Scribes and Pharisees
because they did not believe
in him in the manner
proclaimed by modern
Christians, has absolutely
no basis in biblical fact.
When it is realized that the
original Gospel accounts
portrayed Jesus as a man who
fulfilled the Law within
himself to become the
Anointed (see
TheTenWords.com ) -- and
that the Virgin Birth
account which was a later
addition, is purely
allegorical, and was not
part of the original Gospels
(see
Virgin Birth) -- then a
totally different Gospel
objective begins to
emerge. And in not
understanding the original
objectives that very quickly
became altered and
corrupted, the Christian
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What if you are not your
real or true self? And if
you preserve and attempt to
save that which is false,
that you will have
squandered your life away?
What if what is often
portrayed as the ego-self,
is the person you are in
this world, while the true
self exists at a deeper
level of mind and being and
cannot easily manifest in
the person whose thinking,
mindset and lifestyle is
founded upon the temporal
cultures and lifestyles of
this world? And what if
when Jesus makes reference
to the blind, deaf and those
incapable of understanding
with any depth of
comprehension, it is in
reference to those who are
carnal and anchored to this
world -- which condition of
mind is that portrayed as
dwelling in what Jesus said
was the
"outer darkness"
of mind and being? And
what if beyond the barrier
of the inner wall of
consciousness where the true
self dwells, all truths were
seen and known in the Light
of a naked reality? Why,
all of a sudden the enigmas
of knowing one's self,
losing the self in this
world, and ones search for
the Kingdom within, would
suddenly be understood from
a totally different
perspective than it is
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