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What Did Jesus Say To Thomas?
From The Nag Hammadi Library, Edited by James Robinson, pg. 127-128:
Saying #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?’
In order to know—and, then, understand—what the three things are that Jesus said to Thomas, it is necessary to understand, first of all, the context in which that Teaching was conveyed.
To begin with, by asking the question, Jesus is testing his disciples to determine which of them, if any, is deserving of additional Teaching. And, of the three, Jesus determines that Thomas alone has ‘passed the test’; since, after all, Saying #13 is found in, specifically, the Gospel of Thomas, rather than any other Gospel.
And, in order to understand why Thomas ‘passed the test’, it is necessary to understand the differences between the consciousness of Jesus—that is, the consciousness Created ‘by and in the image of God’ (Genesis 1:27)—and the ‘fallen’ consciousness of his disciples.
The ‘fallen’ consciousness is comprised of the “beast of the sea” (Revelations 13:1) consciousness of the “self” and the “beast of the earth” (Revelations 13:11 and Sura 27:82 of the Quran) consciousness of the ‘thinker’; the principal function of the consciousness of the “self” being the creation of images [the first image created by the “self” being an image of the “self” itself as a 3-dimensional ‘curved spatiality’ of consciousness which has been created by the (“dragon”) ‘movement’ of self-reflection]; and the principal function of the consciousness of the ‘thinker’ being the extension and preservation of that ‘curved spatiality’ of consciousness in time through the creation of thought (the first thought being the thought of the ‘thinker’).
Thus, what Jesus is determining (by asking the question) is whether his disciples have any understanding at all of the quite serious limitations of the ‘fallen’ consciousness in apprehending, through image, or explaining, through thought, either the consciousness Created by God itself or the Knowledge of the Truth. And, from his reply, it is quite clear that Thomas does have at least a minimal understanding of such limitations.
Thus, Jesus tells Thomas three things:
1) The conflict between the consciousness Created by God and the ‘fallen’ consciousness of the “self” and the ‘thinker’ is a conflict between the Knowledge of Truth and both the images of Truth created by the “self” and the thoughts about Truth created by the ‘thinker’; those images and thoughts being symbolized as “stones” which are thrown at the Truth for the purpose of destroying it;
2) The images and thoughts created by the ‘fallen’ consciousness in order to destroy both the consciousness Created by God and the Knowledge of Truth originate in the “fire” of fear and desire [which is the origin of both the ‘movement’ of self-reflection (the “self”) and the postulation of the thought of the ‘thinker’]; and,
3) The confrontation between the Knowledge of Truth and the images and thoughts which are created by the ‘fallen’ consciousness of the “self” and the ‘thinker’ results in the time-reversal ‘resolution’ of those images and thoughts—into the “fire” from which they originated—to the very annihilation of both the “self” and the ‘thinker’ themselves; as must occur prior to the receiving of the Vision of the “Son of man”.
For more than 33 years, however, the “dragon”-media and the “false prophet” Jewish and Christian religious ‘authorities’ (Revelations 16:13)—including, since 1986, the Jesus Seminar—have censored and suppressed what Jesus said to Thomas; choosing to publish, instead, numerous commentaries (“their name is legion”) on the Gospel of Thomas written by people who, incredibly, were not even involved in the conversation between Jesus and Thomas in the first place…
Elizabeth (Chapter 12, verse 13 of the Book of Daniel and Chapter 11, verse 14 & Chapter17, verses 10-13 of the Gospel of Matthew) for
(Seven Women, Seven Churches and Seven Sisters )
Hagar–>the apostle Mary–>Danielle (1982-1987)
(March, 1987—the http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap960705.html)
Isaac–>the apostle John–>Robin (1986)
Ishmael–>the apostle Peter–>Cindy (1992)
Jacob–>the apostle Thomas–>Linda (1987-
Esau–>the apostle, Judas–>Susan (1970)
Isaiah’s wife–>the apostle James–>Kimberly (2000-
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“…censored and suppressed what Jesus said to Thomas; choosing to publish, instead, numerous commentaries (“their name is legion”) on the Gospel of Thomas written by people who, incredibly, were not even involved in the conversation between Jesus and Thomas in the first place…”
Just about sums up all religious beliefs from all ages perfectly. Thus the creation of a religion, the bible, can be described as a series of thought and belief intolerant dictatorships, standing on their victims while claiming persecution.