The Nag Hammadi Library and Conscious, Enlightened Jesus
Is anyone reading The Nag Hammadi Library, particularly for this topic's beginning...The Gospel of Thomas?
The Gospel of Thomas Judas (the Twin) is a collection of "the sayings of Jesus," and if you read those sayings from a place of Consciousness, it is very clear that the speaker is one who is Enlightened.
Further intrigue can be realized in the reality that, given that these "sayings of Jesus" are rooted in Universal physics, mathematics, multidimensionality, etc., that quantum physics (likewise rooted in the same) should then have been available to his era! The sayings could not be said if so many other truths and realizations of life had not been accessed, at least within the speaker.
The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of ancient documents (books) found in the 1940s in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, which date back to, and can be traced back to, the time of Jesus and shortly thereafter. Written in Coptic, which is a successor of Egyptian hieroglyphics, these are the missing gospels that were banned from the bible and made illegal, primarily for political purposes at the time of the banning (around the year 312, by Constantine).
These are extremely interesting and intriguing to read, and they confirm what most Enlightened Ones have rightfully assumed all along...that the historical Jesus was a regular, everyday man like any other, but who happened to be likewise Enlightened, and that that is what he was trying to teach. Unfortunately, as he still would be nowadays, he was seriously misinterpreted and Christianity was born of that misinterpretation.
I've been studying the Coptic language, which is a lot of fun to do, particularly because it is fun to read precisely what the ancients wrote in their own language.
Anyone here reading the Nag Hammadi Library, particularly the Gospel of Thomas Judas the Twin? :Buddha2:
Nag Hammadi Library - The Sayings of Jesus
Thanks, and I agree...
The simplest explanation tends to be the right one...and correct, too! :two hearts:
Here is some of the beginning of the Nag Hammadi Library's Gospel of Thomas ("the Sayings of Jesus"). While I have various books on these, the following is taken from "The Gospel of Thomas, (The Hidden Sayings of Jesus)" by Marvin Meyer. Elaine Pagels is also another professor whose work focuses on these.
The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of actual bound books that were stashed in large urns and buried over 1600 years ago, believed to have been put there when Constantine made the dozens of existing gospels other than Mathew, Mark, Luke and John illegal and ordered them destroyed. It is believed those who stashed them were trying to preserve them until a time came when the world could handle the truth. These gospels were copied from earlier texts, as it was the norm at the time to copy texts over and over again, and dating them was made easier by their being referenced in various other texts that were already known. These Gospels of Thomas were referenced back to the first century.
Everything between the lines is thousands of years old...in every analogy! :two hearts:
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These are the hidden sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Judas Thomas the Twin recorded.
1 And he said, "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
2 Jesus said, "Let one who seeks not stop seeking until one finds. When one finds, one will the troubled. When one is troubled, one will marvel and will reign over all."
3 Jesus said, "If the leaders say to you, "Look, the kingdom is in heaven,' then the birds of heaven will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside you and it is outside you.
"When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty, and you are poverty."
4 Jesus said, "The person old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live. For many of the first will be the last, and will become a single one."
5 Jesus said, "Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed."
6 His followers asked him and said to him, "Do you want us to fast? How should we pray? Should we give to charity? What diet should we observe?"
Jesus said, "Do not lie, and do not do what you hate, because all things are disclosed before heaven. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing covered that will remain undisclosed."
7 Jesus said, "Blessings on the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And cursed is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion will become human."
8 And he said, "Humankind is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of little fish. Among them the wise fisherman discovered a fine large fish. He threw all the little fish back into the sea and with no difficulty chose the large fish. Whoever has ears to hear should hear."
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** In multidimensional language (Universal physics), "father" is the world outside oneself, one's entire environment "out there." It is not a reference to an anthropomorphized being.
A few more sayings of Jesus from Nag Hammadi Library, Thomas Judas the Twin
9 Jesus said, "Look, the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and scattered (them). Some fell on the road, and the birds came and pecked them up. Others fell on rock, and they did not take root in the soil and did not produce heads of grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds and worms devoured them. And others fell on good soil, and it brought forth a good crop. It yielded sixty per measure and 120 per measure."
10 Jesus said, "I have thrown fire upon the world, and look, I am watching it until it blazes."
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.
"During the days when you ate what is dead, you made it alive. When you are 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 followers said to Jesus, "We know that you are going to leave us. Who will be our leader?"
Jesus said to them, "No matter where you have come from, you are to go to James the Righteous, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being."
Some more translations into/of the Consciousness physics.
9 Jesus said, "Look, the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and scattered (them). Some fell on the road, and the birds came and pecked them up. Others fell on rock, and they did not take root in the soil and did not produce heads of grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds and worms devoured them. And others fell on good soil, and it brought forth a good crop. It yielded sixty per measure and 120 per measure."
Here, the "sower" is a teacher of Consciousness/Enlightenment, attempting to awaken the world of misguided convention. But his or her teachings were received according to how far people would allow themselves to go, or to how intelligent and open they were, in their learning processes. Some couldn't handle it at all, some were aggressive against it, others got a few bits and pieces of it selectively, or by happenstance, and others actually were interested and attended, and as a result, they progressed further in their realizations:
"Some fell on the road, and the birds came and pecked them up. (Total misinterpretation, assimilation into conventional interpretation!) Others fell on rock, and they did not take root in the soil and did not produce heads of grain. (Adamant rock-hard refusal!) Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds and worms devoured them (Aggressive denial/exchange against the teachings/truth/insights). And others fell on good soil, and it brought forth a good crop (some heard, or wanted to hear, and attended)."
"It yielded sixty per measure and 120 per measure."
This would refer to the "two truths" of life, of the universe, and of ourselves. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the universe is an androgynous system of opposing forces, in an otherwise static, nonlinear (all-inclusive, everything already said and done) reality. Some people may get some of it, but others will get all of it, though genuine Enlightenment is very rare.
10 Jesus said, "I have thrown fire upon the world, and look, I am watching it until it blazes."
Here, he has exposed the world to the truth, and the first emotion and dynamic involved in that exposure is that people get really angry (angry enough to kill, obviously! Whatever it takes for them to protect their vested yet delusional/illusional interests). That anger comes from fear...of the unknown, of accepting that their lives have been based upon misinterpretation, that their god and community will strike vengeance against them, that because their minds suddenly are lost and don't know where to go otherwise they will lose their minds, into insanity, etc... It is safe to say that extremes of "exposure therapy" may not be the better way to go! It's just way too easy for large amounts of people to gang up together to advocate against the single perceived threat, and to rid themselves of that threat (within and without) to rush back to their comfort zones!
11 Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away.
This refers to the immediate Now. If you hold your hands up in front of you, as if you are getting ready to applaud, you can see that everything that passes through that space is the grasp-able constant Now, but yet that Now is (seemingly, especially to a linear mindset) ever-changing. Like, a day is still a day, every day, and yet things change from one day to the next. This would also refer to the matriarchyXpatriarchy exchange. (See next.)
"The dead are not alive, and the living will not die.
In a nonlinear universe, everything is all already said and done, already fully accounted for. Where everything is is where everything will be. Translucently, we are all as congealed as we aren't.
More Nag Hammadi Library...
13 Jesus said to his followers, "Compare me to something and tell me what I am like."
Simon Peter said to him, "You are like a righteous messenger."
Matthew said to him, "You are like a wise philosopher."
Thomas said to him, "Teacher, my mouth is utterly unable to say what you are like."
Jesus said, "I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended."
And he took him, and withdrew, and spoke three sayings to him.
When Thomas came back to his friends, they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?"
Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will pick up rocks and stone me, and fire will come from the rocks and consume you."
Question (from Myst): So, what do YOU suppose Jesus (as an Enlightened One) would have said to Thomas Judas the Twin when he took him aside?
More to contemplate and ponder... *One* intriguing riddler, that's for sure!
14 Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves, and if you pray, you will be condemned, and if you give to charity, you will harm your spirits.
"When you go into any region and walk through the countryside, when people receive you, eat what they serve you and heal the sick among them. For what goes into your mouth will not defile you; rather, it is what comes out of your mouth that will defile you."
15 Jesus said, "When you see one who is not born of woman, fall on your faces and worship. That is your father."
16 Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to impose peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to impose conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war. For there will be five in a house: There will be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone."
17 Jesus said, "I shall give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart."
18 The followers said to Jesus, "Tell us how our end will be."
Jesus said, "Have you discovered the beginning, then, so that you are seeking the end? For where the beginning is the end will be. Blessings on one who stands at the beginning: That one will know the end and will not taste death."
19 Jesus said, "Blessings on one who came into being before coming into being.
"If you become my followers and listen to my sayings, these stones will serve you.
"For there are five trees in paradise for you; they do not change, summer or winter, and their leaves do not fall. Whoever knows them will not taste death."