My Yoke and Rest Gospel of Thomas Saying 90

Saying 90

(90) Jesus said: Come to me, for my yoke is easy and my lordship is gentle, and you will find rest for yourselves.

 my yoke.  Prov 3:17 Mic 6:8 Ac 15:10,28 Ga 5:1,18 1Jo 5:3

rest

This is rest for your souls it is a re-genertion or recreation with in us. I will ease and relive and refresh your soul. This rest is from the old covenant, by the coming of Jesus we have rest in the new covenant. But it is also the rest in the age to come the age of ages and the final rest in the ages of ages.

90)# Jesus said, "Come unto me [the Word], for My yoke is easy [to understand if you have the Keys] and My lordship is mild [as opposed to the Jewish or Christo-pagan system of "lordship"], and you will find repose for yourselves [from the demands of the lower/outward (fleshly) forms of understanding laid upon you by the false teachers]."

Washing The Gospel of Thomas Saying 89

Saying 89

(89) Jesus said: Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Do you not understand that he who made the inside is also he who made the outside?

Washing or baptizing the body does not make it pure. Washing the body will only make the outside clean here Jesus is speaking about washing the inside that is our hearts and minds for it is out of the heart whereby we become unclean. Jesus here is speaking about the process of self-purification and the path to the Christ-Consciousness is self-purification and self-consecration. When we are clean the light of Christ shines through us

89)## Jesus said, "Why do you wash [with the Word] the outside [the superficial lower/outward (fleshly) meaning] of the cup [the scriptures whose prophesies you are to drink from]? Do you not realize that he who made the inside [the hidden higher/inward (spiritual) meaning] is the same one who made the outside [the visible lower/outward forms]?"

messengers and the prophets Gospel of Thomas Saying 88

Saying 88

(88) Jesus said, "The messengers and the prophets are coming to you (plur.), and they will give you the things that you possess. And you, too - give them the things that you have, and say among yourselves, 'When are they coming to take their own?'"

Here the messengers and the prophets are first the messengers and the prophets of the Hebrew scriptures and secondly the book of acts contains accounts of early Christian messengers and the prophets.

And they will give you what is yours what messengers and the prophets give is information so if they give you what is yours you will receive information from God .

You then should give them what you have here Jesus is teaching us how to trey missionaries and emissaries giving them sustenance and shelter and respect as they have a right to.

88) Jesus said, "The  messengers [the Elect] and the prophets [their testimony of the scriptures] will come to you and give you [a correct understanding of] those things you (already) have [the Old and New Testaments]. And you too [Jews and Christo-pagans], give them those things which you have [money, power, status, glory in front of men etc..], and say to yourselves, 'When will they [the "owners of the field" (the world)] come and take what is theirs [so that we can remove our religious garments and renounce the world]?'" 

No Where to rest Gospel of Thomas Saying 86

Saying 86

(86) Jesus said: [The foxes have] their holes] and the birds have [their] nest, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head and rest.

We like Jesus have no rest in this age but in the age to come we shall enter into his rest. We do not belong to this world, but to God’s kingdom where we will find rest. Thus one’s real home is to be found in the coming new world, not this dying world or in heaven as the world believes.

86)## Jesus said, "[The foxes [like Herod who knew the truth which he received from John] have their holes [their places within earthly institutions]] and the birds [religious leaders/sinful thoughts] have [their] nests [high offices/the minds of those they occupy], but the Son of Man has no place [no earthly institutions or high offices] to lay his head [His own thoughts] and rest [people are too preoccupied and full of sinful thoughts of this world and "His Kingdom is not of this world"]."

Great Power Gospel of Thomas Saying 85

 Saying 85

(85) Adam came into being out of a great power and a great wealth, and he was not worthy of you; for if he had been worthy, [he would] not [have tasted] of death.

Many have mistakenly said this passage is referring to us getting back the image of God. Yet, this passage is clearly speaking of a MAN that fell from grace. Adam was certainly one who fell from grace. He was the Son of God, yet his fateful decision shook the earth and brought humanity down to the grave (Sheol, pit, hell, Hades).

“Adam came from great power and great wealth“. the great power and the great wealth is the Spirit of God: Heb "ruach Elohim": "The spirit (wealth) of the Powers". "Spirit" = the "wisdom" of Pro 8:22-26. Was Hovering: "Moved" (AV). Like a mother bird brooding over her young: Deu 32:11 (cp Exo 19:4 the Spirit is described as a dove in Matt. 3:16). The words portray the energy-giving presence of God -- wrapping, protecting, and caressing the chaos of the unfinished earth as He prepared to complete His creation. (Gen 1:2).

Powers said (The Elohim), "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the living creatures." Gen 1:26,27 So Powers (the Elohim) created man in His image; male and female created He them.

Now from the consideration adduced, it is evident that the phrases, "and God said," and "God made," and "God created," occurrent in the first chapter, are equivalent to "Lord God"; or more properly, Elohim said, created, and made, are equivalent to Yahweh Elohim doing thus, as brought out in the second chapter-- "One Spirit in a plurality of Agents": not a single one in three, but One in hosts: and hence the title so frequently in Scripture, "Yahweh of Hosts" -- the Yahweh-Spirit in multitudinous manifestation.

The plurality of Elohim in the work of creation is manifest from Gen. 1:26 -- "Let Us make man in 'Our' image after our likeness." If the Yahweh-spirit had been solitary in the work, He would rather have said, if He said anything: "I will make man in my image, after my likeness." What was said is recorded to reveal to the reader the true relation of things. The mandate issued from Yahweh that man be made in the Spirit-type, and so constituted, that divine intelligence and power should be displayed through his organism.

That spirit-type was the angel Elohim after whom Adam and Eve were made. In form and likeness the same, only in nature of inferior quality. This was Yahweh's pleasure, and it was done by the fingers of His power. In reference to this, we read in Psalm 8:3, "When I consider the heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man that thou art mindful of him? and the Son of Man that Thou visitest him? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the Elohim,"* etc. Quoted in the New Testament by Paul, the word mai-Elohim is rendered by "than angels," (Heb. 2:9); because Elohim are the agents or executive fingers of the Spirit. "The Spirit of God" and "the fingers of God" are synonymous, as appears from Matt. 12:28; Luke 11:20; and Elohim are spirit, being out of Ail. What the fingers of the hand are to the brain, such are the hosts of Elohim to Ail; they are "Unity of Spirit," which is "God."
“and he did not become worthy of you. For, had he been worthy he would not have tasted death."

Adam was found unworthy? Funk and Hoover write: "In developing the significance of Jesus, early Christians often used the mythic figure of Adam as a point of comparison. One finds this especially in Paul (Rom 5:12-15,17,19; [cp. Job 31:33; Pr 28:13; Ho 6:7;] 1 Cor 15:21-22, 42-50; 1Ti 2:14 ): in contrast to Adam, whose sin led to death, stands Jesus, whose obedience leads to life. The fate of Adam, according to Thom 85:2, was death; the fate of those who find the meaning of Jesus' words will be not to taste death, according to Thomas 1 The phrase 'not taste death' is a favourite of Thomas (Thom 1; 18:3; 19:4; 111:2), although it was also known to the Gospel of John (8:51-52)." (The Five Gospels, p. 518)

85) Jesus said, "Adam [and all of his sons in the flesh] came into being from a great power [we are all formed in the womb by God] and a great wealth [higher/inward (spiritual) knowledge which we are all born with the potential to harness for "He enlightens everyone who comes into the world"], but he did not become worthy [because he fell prey to his fleshly desires in Eve] of you [who have been given the "Keys of Knowledge" and are entrusted with the Word of Truth]. For had he been worthy [to have the mystery revealed to him (eat from the Tree of Life)], [he would] not [have experienced] death [would not have been separated from the Father - i.e. recreated in the image of an image]." 

Gospel of Thomas Saying 84

Saying 84

(84) Jesus said: When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your images which came into existence before you, which neither die nor are made manifest, how much will you bear?

R. McL. Wilson writes: "Like Irenaeus and some other Fathers, Thomas distinguishes between the 'image' and the 'likeness' in Genesis i. 26. Man on earth possesses only the likeness; the iamge (for Thomas) is his heavenly counterpart, the pattern on which he was made. Now we see only the likeness, as in a mirror (1Cor 13:12, 2Cor 3:18), but when Christ shall appear we shall be like Him (1John 3:2). Logion 24 speaks of the light that is in a man of light (cf. Matt 5:14, 6:22-23), logion 50 of the disciples (or the Gnostics) as coming from the Light…..Christ is the image of God (Col. 1:15 etc.), and Paul speaks of 'the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ' (2Cor. 4:4, 6). Colossians 3:3 speaks of our life as 'hid with Christ in god,' and we may also recall the Pauline formula 'in Christ.' Finally, the opening words of logion 83 may owe something to reflection on Romans 1:20 ff., the 'invisible things of God' being interpreted as the archetypal patterns, the 'images'." (Studies in the Gospel of Thomas, pp. 108-109)

Here Jesus is speaking about angels been our double see (Acts 12:15 Matt 18:10). Paul also says that people have heavenly bodies which are images of the heavenly man, bodies that will be donned after the resurrection and judgment (1Cor 15:35-49). The glory of the heavenly body differs from the earth in the same way that the illumination of the sun differs from the moon and the stars. As we have worn the image of the earthly Paul states, so also shall we wear the image of the heavenly. The heavenly image corresponds to the heavenly man who Paul identifies with Christ while the earthly with Adam who begot a son in his likeness and image (1Cor 15:48 and Gen 5:3). Thus from that time forward, the earthly bodies as images of the fallen Adam have been reproduced, while the heavenly bodies as images of the heavenly man, the Christ , must be put on after the resurrection (1Cor 115:53 2Cor 5:1-10)

The “likeness“ is man‘s likeness to the Elohim. When, therefore, Elohim said, "let us make man in our image;" and it is added, "male and female created he them;" it would seem that both the man and the woman were created in the image and likeness of Elohim. In this case, some of the Elohim are represented by Adam's form, and some by Eve's. so Our likeness is the image of the earthly man, which is only a type of the heavenly man 1Cor 15:45-49 Rom 5:14
Thus “likeness” is man‘s mortal body or body of soul compared to the image=man’s spiritual body or body of spirit, which will be after the image of the heavenly man.
First a moral regeneration than a corporeal regeneration (Col 3:10 Phil 3:20,21) than we will truly become the twin brothers of Christ . (Col 1:2)

“Which came in to being before you did“. The true believers have been chosen by God, before the foundion of the world to be made into the image and likeness of his son (Rom 8:29).
“They neither die nor are visible.” the Father is Invisible no mortal man can see him so in the age to come

84) Jesus said, "When you see your likeness [being projected unto the scriptures], you rejoice [because it suits you to see yourself and not God in them]. But when you see your images [recognize that it is you whom they are speaking of] which came into being before you [they were written before these things happened in your life], and which neither die [the Truth cannot die but only be covered up] nor become manifest [to those who do not recognize the law of the spirit in them], how much [guilt] you will have to bear ["in that day" of discovery]!" 

images and light gospel of thomas Saying 83

Saying 83

(83) Jesus said: The images are revealed to man, and the light which is in them is hidden in the image of the light of the Father. He will reveal himself, and his image is hidden by his light.

This saying tells us that the human being is made in God’s image. Thus, the saying begins by affirming that human beings are the visible ‘images’ of God. However, this is only a type of the true image that we are to become. The image of the son of God, into which true believers are transformed, is likeness not only to heavenly body Phil 3:21 but also to the mind of Christ and Christ tells us to be holy like our heavenly Father.

Light: Light is used to denote truth and its knowledge the saving truth embodied in Christ and imparted to mankind true believers are called light having obtained saving wisdom in fellowship with Christ add ref. The word is used in connection with joy, blessing and life in contrast to sorrow, adversity and death (Gen 1:3 Job 10:22 18;5). In addition, to signify God’s presence and favour (Ps 27:1 Isa 9:2 2Cor 4:6). God’s holiness is expressed in terms of light, in 1Tim 6:16 and 1jn 1:5 where it is said that ‘God is light’. In john’s Gospel, the term light refers to God’s holiness as a revelation of his love in Christ and the penetration of that love into lives darkened by sin. So Christ refers to himself as ’the light of the world’ (Jn 8:12 9:5 12:46)

Thus the image of the Father’s light is Christ (2Cor 4:4 Col 1:15) Paul speaks of the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ (2Cor 4:4,6). Those who are still mortal cannot adequately perceive this light. When mortality is at last swallowed up by life (2Cor 5;4) he will be fully manifest (Col 3:4 1jn 3;2). Now we see only in a mirror (1Cor 13:12; 2Cor 3:18). but when Christ shall appear we shall be like him (Phi 3:20,21) Christ is the image of God so we shall be made into the true image of God for at the moment we are in the image of Adam who is only a type of the true image Christ Jesus.

83) Jesus said, "The images [lower/outward forms of worship] are manifest to man [in the worldly religious systems that to this day still cling to the Old Covenant and the traditions, rituals and ordinances of men], but the light [the higher/inward (spiritual) meaning] in them remains concealed in the image ["locked" and hidden from view in the various names, objects and rituals] of the light of the Father [these have no light of their own]. He ["the Father of lights"] will become manifest [in the flesh - in your words and deeds as was with Christ], but his image will remain concealed by his light [those who love the darkness cannot bear the light]." 

The Decad is the Duality of the Pentad

The Decad is the Duality of the Pentad; large knowing and small knowing opposites of life & death / light & darkness.

Thought in this world.
Thought in the Christ.

Forethought in this world.
Forethought in the Christ.

Truth in this world.
Truth in the Christ.

Indestructibility in this world.
Indestructibility in the Christ.

Everlasting life in this world.
Everlasting life in the Christ.

Wisdom calls out at the gates, “The kingdom is within; her gates open; the light is on come now and enter in”.

As above so is below.

One is Big knowing and the other is little knowing.

One is the truth set you free, the other is the truth in the world that always changes directions.

We’re in the II coming, and we’re to enter the kingdom within and go the way. Once you’re within the kingdom this is where mind and heart are kept safe.

To enter in soul awakens and changes into a little child and learns how to left and right glide within the mind called the spirit as he enters the narrow way leading to life, comes out into the light of knowing the truth of who you are, where you came from and what’s going on.

Its a strange thing the II coming, so quiet in silence, Christ is taking this world by stealth.

before he came into being gospel of thomas saying 19

gospel of thomas  saying 19 

Jesus said, "Blessed is that which exsted before coming into being. If you exist as my disciples and listen to my sayings, these stones will minister unto you. Indeed, you have five trees in paradise, which do not move in summer or winter, and whose leaves do not fall. Whoever is acquainted with them will not taste death."

A blessed one is he who came into being from the beginning, before he came to be. Another verion of this saying is found in the gospel of Philip 61. The Lord says: Blessed is he who is before he comes into being! For he who is, both was and shall be. (Rev/Ap 1:8; 4:8 11:17)

Here Jesus is giving some extra information to the question asked by the disciples from the above saying “tell us how our end will”? so Here Jesus is answering the question to saying 18 finding the beginning (the new creation) you will become a blessed one who came into being before he came into being (born again).

If you become disciples to me

19) Jesus said, "Blessed is he who came into being [was anointed (spirit baptized) from heaven (having inward substance)] before he came into being [was "anointed" (water baptized) by man (having only an outward form) for only the anointing spirit guides one into all truth]. If you become My disciples and listen to My words [the Keys to unlocking the mystery], these stones [the books (tablets of stone) i.e. scriptures)] will minister to you [they will reveal their hidden spiritual meanings to you]. (Jn 8:47, 52, 58; Jn 15:8. Mt 3:3; Lk 3:3 Saying 13 Mt 7:9)  For there are five trees [Tree of Knowledge (worldly wisdom full of subversion), Tree of Life (heavenly wisdom full of Truth - see Prov 3:18), some other trees to consider - Tree of the field, tree of oil - olive tree], for you in Paradise [we know a Fig Tree was in the garden for they hid themselves with its leaves - but we also know that they lose their leaves in winter just as their symbolic people did (Israel and Judah)] which remain undisturbed summer and winter and whose leaves [healing words] do not fall [so these must relate to Truth]. Whoever becomes acquainted with them [the Truth] will not experience death [it sets you free from it so the trees must be tied to the Word of Truth in some way (Pentateuch - first five books? more study needed]." (1 Enoch 3; 10:16; 24; 25:4; 93:2-5; Ps 1:3; 92:13; Isa 44:4; 61:3; Jer 17:8; Ode 11; Ode 38:17-22 Ode 

the old testament pseudepigrapha ( 2 volume set)

the old testament pseudepigrapha ( 2 volume set)

The Odes Of Solomon book

My Two commentaries on the Odes of solomon

Sin is in the flesh

Sin is in the flesh

Sin is in the flesh, the flesh is as the cloths we wear; the vessel, the shell - kept alive by the spirit, soul cannot keep organic life alive like a sperm cannot produce the egg, sperm must find the egg, going through a tiny bit of darkness and only one enters in. The flesh is sinful in nature, because of soul and is this souls fault? No. Yet soul is captive within the flesh of man. Soul is the higher intelligence of man and when soul mingles with the instinctual spirit of life, ego is manifested from the flesh, and is ego is blame. No. This is where all the gods came from, the imaginations of the ego through the soul who's come from the light. Soul is drawn by ego to image its the spirit having a human experience, this is not so. Soul is the true child of the Father. Its time for soul to awaken within I hope everyone's ready for the Lord wants none to perish.