The Gospel Of Thomas

These are a few of the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.
And he said, “Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience death.”

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.

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 realise 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.

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.

Recognise 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.

Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of heaven.

Beware of the Devil.
He will walk the earth until the end of days.
He will seduce the greedy, the selfish, the weak-minded, and the stupid.

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.

I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes.

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?

Blessed are the animals, they too will see the Kingdom of Heaven.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every time you turn a blind eye to suffering your soul becomes darker.

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.

Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil of your eye.

The wicked and the evil will not escape punishment.
If they escape punishment on Earth, they will be punished elsewhere.

Do not take that which is not yours, including the lives of other animals.

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.

Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed is the man who has suffered and found life.

Blessed are you when you are hated and persecuted.
Wherever you have been persecuted they will find no place.

Be honest, truthful and kind
Hurt no other living being
Eat little
Drink enough
And thou shalt live.

Blessed are the animals, like children they are innocent.
They will see the wonders of heaven.

If you have money, do not lend it at interest, but give it to one from whom you will not get it back.

Woe to the flesh that depends on the soul.
Woe to the soul that depends on the flesh.

When you pray, my Father listens to your heart, not your spoken words.

The Gospel According To Thomas.
There is a growing consensus among scholars that the Gospel of Thomas – discovered in Egypt in 1945 – dates to the very beginnings of the Christian era and may well have taken first form before any of the four traditional canonical Gospels.
The Vatican refuses to recognise this gospel and has described it as heresy.

I Believe In Jesus Christ.
I believe that Jesus Christ, begotten of the father from eternity, and also the man, born of the Virgin Mary, is my Lord; who has redeemed me, a lost and condemned creature, and delivered me from all sins, from death, and from the power of the Devil, not with silver and gold but with his holy and precious blood and with his innocent sufferings and death, in order that I may be his, live under him and in his Kingdom serve him in everlasting righteousness and blessedness, even as he is risen from the dead and reigns to all eternity.
( Martin Luther. 1483 – 1546 )

No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.
His personality pulsates in every word.
No myth is filled with such life.
( Albert Einstein )

Jesus Speaking To The Crowds And To His Disciples.
The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
So practice and observe everything they tell you.
But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
All their deeds are done for men to see.
They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
They love the places of honour at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues, the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed by.
But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.
And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ.
The greatest among you shall be your servant.
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces.
You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
( Matthew 23, The Bible )