The Gospel of Thomas Explained
1:6 But the Kingdom is within you and it is without you
(everywhere, but human eyes will never see it â John 3:3-10).
1:7 If you will know yourselves
(the Truth about who and what you really are â a human+Being) , then you will be known
(people will see that you are different) and you will know that you are the sons of the Living Father
(adopted children of God â Matt 23:9).
1:8 But if you do not know yourselves
(and believe that you are only human) , then you are in poverty and you
ARE poverty.
1:9 Jesus said: The man old in days
(human years) will not hesitate
(if he is truly humble) to ask a little child
(Matt. 18:3) of seven days
(with complete Knowledge of God) about the place of Life
(the Truth), and he will Live.
2:8 In the days when you devoured the dead (believed that you were only human and acted like a human instead of as a Being, living by Godâs eternal principles) , you made it seem alive (by thinking that is all there is to life) ; when you come into Light (find the Truth), what will you do? On the day when you were one (human-being) you became two (a human+Being). But when you have become two what will you do? (see verse 4:10).
4:2 Whoever KNOWS them will not taste death.
4:3 The disciples said to Jesus: Tell us what the Kingdom of Heaven is like. He said to them: It is like a mustard-seed, smaller than all seeds (to a human). But when it falls on the tilled earth (one who loves and willfully accepts the Truth), it produces a large branch (he grows strong in the Truth) and becomes shelter for the birds of heaven (those around him find in him peace and shelter from the chaos and insanity of the world).
4:10 They said to Him: Shall we then, being children, enter the Kingdom? Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, and when you make the inner (the Being) as the outer (the human) and the outer (human) as the inner (Being) and the below (you) as the Above (God), and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female not be female (Spirit-Beings have no sex), when you make eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in the place of a hand, and a foot in the place of a foot, and an Image in the place of an image (see 8:8 and 13:15), . . . . . . . . . . . . . THEN shall you enter the Kingdom.
6:3 Jesus said: No prophet is acceptable in his village, no physician heals those who know him (complacency breeds conceit; familiarity breeds contempt and like sees like, i.e. humans only see other humans and not the spirit-Being within).
6:8 His disciples said: When wilt Thou be revealed to us and when will we see Thee (the Christ)?
6:9 Jesus said: When you take off your shame without being ashamed (put your past sins and wrong-doings behind you, with determination not to do it again), and take your clothes (human bodies) and put them under your feet (control your human bodyâs âSelfâ-ish natural instincts) as the little children (with child-like [not childish] faith and humility) and tread on them (crucifying the âSelfâ â Matt. 16:24-26), then shall you behold the Son of the Living One and you shall not fear.
6:10 Jesus said: Many times have you desired to hear these words which I say to you, and you have no other from whom to hear them (I am The Way, the Truth, and the Life: NOT one man cometh unto the Father, EXCEPT by me [Christ]. â John 14:6). There will be days when you will seek Me and you will not find me (**because you will be overcome by your human âSelfâ and will become spiritually blinded by your humanâs emotions, ego and âSelfâ-ishness).
8:4 No man drinks old wine (indulges his human âSelfâ) and immediately desires to drink new wine (feed his spirit-Being); and they do not put new wine (Spiritual Truth) into old wineskins (someone who clings to the doctrine of the churches and the belief that heâs only human) , lest they burst, and they do not put old wine (human worldly lusts and pleasures) into a new wineskin (one who is born again as his spirit-Being â John 3:3-9) , lest it spoil it.
8:5 They do not sew an old patch on a new garment, because there would come a tear (you cannot mix human âSelfâ-ishness and worldly pleasures with Spiritual unselfishness, Truth and Enlightenment).
8:6 Jesus said: If two (the human and the Being) make peace with each other in this one house (human+Being), they shall say to the government: âBe movedâ, and it shall be moved.
8:8 Jesus said: If they say to you: âFrom where have you originated?â, say to them: âWe have come from the Light (Spirit Energy â God â Enoch 39:8) , where the Light has originated through itself (God the Creator of all things and the source of Love; goodness; Truth and Light, from where we [our Spirit â the Being part of our human+Being] come â Enoch 105:25). It stood and it revealed itself in their image (My âSelfâ is crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I [the âSelfâ], but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. â Gal. 2:20).
8:9 If they say to you: âWho are you?â, say: âWe are His (adopted) sons and we are the Elect of the Living Fatherâ. If they ask you: âWhat is the sign of your Father in you?â, say to them: âIt is a movement and a restâ (always at peace, calm and passive, whatever happens).
8:10 His disciples said to Him: When will the repose of the âdeadâ come about and when will the new world come? He said to them: What you expect (The Kingdom of God) has come, but you know it not (Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water [human] and then is born [later] from above as his spirit-âBeingâ [his REAL self which is NOT human], he can NOT see or enter into the Kingdom of God [Who is a Spirit-âBeingâ] â John 3:5)
9:4 Jesus said: Blessed are the poor (that are rich in spirit), for yours is the Kingdom of Heaven.
9:5 Jesus said: Whoever does not hate his (human bodyâs) father and mother will not be able to be a disciple to Me [and join my family] (Matt. 10:35-38; 12:46-50), and whoever does not hate his (human bodyâs) brethren and his sisters and does not take up his cross (of âSelfâ sacrifice) in My Way (crucifying the âSelfâ daily) will not be worthy of Me (Matt. 16:24-26).
10:4 For on the day of the harvest (the Last Day) the weeds will appear, they will pull them and burn them. Jesus said:
10:5 Blessed is the man who has suffered (in this life for the Truth â John 15:17-21), he has found the Life (Eternal).
10:6 Jesus said: Look upon the Living One (God) as long as you live lest you die (are overcome by your human âSelfâ and end up in The Fire) and seek to see Him and be unable to see (Luke 16:20-31).
10:12 Jesus said: Two will rest on a bed (human+Being): the one will die (the human), the one will Live (the Being). Salome said: Who art thou, man, and whose son? Thou didst take thy place upon my bench and eat from my table.
10:13 Jesus said to her: I am He who is from the Same (The Son of God), to Me was given from the things of My Father.
12:4 He sent another servant; the husbandmen beat him as well. Then the owner sent His Son (Jesus+Christ). He said: âPerhaps they will respect My Sonâ. Since those husbandmen knew that he was the heir of the vineyard, they seized him, they killed (Crucified) him (Jesus the human â not Christ the Being â Koran Sura 4).*
12:5 Whoever has ears let him hear.
12:6 Jesus said: Show Me the Stone (Christ) which the builders have rejected; it is The Corner-Stone (Gen. 49:22-24 / Matt. 21:42-44).
12:7 Jesus said: Whoever knows the All but fails to know himself (the Truth about his human âSelfâ and his own âSelfâ-ishness) lacks everything.
12:13 Jesus said: I (Christ) shall destroy this House (the human bodyâs âSelfâ and also The Holy Temple â Matt. 24:2) and no-one will be able to build it again (Rev. 21:22).
** Koran Sura 4:157. That they said (in boast), âWe killed Christ the son of Mary, the Messenger of Godâ;- but they killed Christ not, nor crucified Christ, but so it was made to appear to them (as they crucified the human body called Jesus, that Christ the spirit-being used â Psalm 22; Isaiah 52:13 to 54:1; Zechariah 11:10-13; Matthew 27), and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) Knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed Christ not:-*
4:158. Nay, God raised him up unto Himself and God is Exalted in Power, and in Wisdom;-
4:159. And, of the People of the Book, they all must believe him (Christ) before their death; and on the Day of Judgment he will be a witness against them (and you) (Surah 43:61);-
13:9 Jesus said: Why did you come out into the desert? To see a reed shaken by the wind? And to see a man clothed in soft garments (what were you expecting to see)? See, your (human) kings and your great ones are those who are clothed in soft garments and they shall not be able to know the Truth (because they are sheltered from Earthâs reality in the luxury of their palaces and mansions etc. But Godâs Messengers and Great Ones are always humble, meek and lowly [Matt. 11:29] and are never so extravagantly attired because they have different values).
13:10 A woman from the multitude said to Him: Blessed is the womb which bore Thee and the breasts which nourished Thee.
3:12 Jesus said: Whoever has known the world has found the body (the human âSelfâ) , and whoever has found the body [and crucified it daily], of him the world is not worthy.
13:13 Jesus said: Let him who has become rich (in Spirit) become king (of his own household [control his human âSelfâ]), and let him who has power (over other people and worldly affairs) renounce it.
14:3 Jesus said: Why do you wash [only] the outside of the cup (your body)? Do you not understand that He who made the inside (the spirit-Being) is also He who made the outside (the human body)?* Jesus said: Come to Me, for easy is My yoke (training) and My lordship is gentle, and you shall find repose (rest and inner-peace) for yourselves.
5:9 Jesus said: Whoever does not hate his (humanâs) father and mother in My Way will not be able to be a disciple to Me. And whoever does not love his Father (God) and his Mother (the Truth) in My Way will not be able to be a disciple to me, for my (humanâs) mother gave this body life but My true Mother (The Truth) gave me THE Life.
15:22 Jesus said: Woe to the flesh (human) which depends upon the soul (Being); woe to the soul (Being) which depends upon the flesh (human).
15:23 His disciples said to Him: When will the Kingdom come?
15:24 Jesus said: It will not come by expectation; they will not say: âSee, hereâ, or: âSee, thereâ. But the Kingdom of the Father is spread upon the earth (already) and men do not see it (with human eyes â John 3:3-10).