The Gospel of Thomas is mixed in with many gnostic teachings. the Nag Hammadi find is very interesting, as are the debates between St Irenaeus and Valentinus. it has been too many years since i studied these works. what i do know now is that the "bad guys" of today are the ones that embrace the gnostics and fund its popularity. also, their works are despicable and i seem to recall a saying that says to judge them by the fruits of their labors.
Give us an example of a despicable work associated with those who embrace gnosticism and fund its popularity. Though found alongside gnostic works, Thomas work is not. It is found near gnostic works because both my teachings, and gnosticism, were rejected by the popularizers of a new religion called Christianity. And this is because my teachings resembled gnosticism more than they resembled what was emerging at that time, called, "Christianity". So they were lumped in the same bunch. The Gospel of Thomas is not the only gospel disposed of, some never to be seen again. And in the gospels that were produced, Thomas is made to look stupid. And this is because there was differences of opinion right from the beginning and there was an active effort to ostracize Thomas. My brother James attracted a conservative following. But the three wisest teachers that followed me were Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and one who was stoned while Saul held his garments...Stephen. In time, Thomas will reach mastery in his next incarnational lifetime, within 90 years. It is the final of two incarnations since he was a disciple 2000 years ago. There are things I could tell him that I could not tell the others. Things I told him not to tell, lest he be stoned. Thomas did not include everything I ever said, and it was never finished. He was planning on including the parable of the prodigal Son when he was suddenly beheaded in India. About 30% of the sayings in his gospel are not his work or my sayings. They were added later by others. But his work predates the four popular gospels that giles177 subscribes to, which post-date Saul/Paul's scribblings. Therefore Thomas represents the oldest known gospel, predating what became "Christianity". When you think of "gospel" it may be helpful to consider that their purpose is to "dispel". That is to say, the world is a manifestation of a "spell" upon the mind. It's like a spell gone wild. Someone forgot to say, "And with harm toward none". Truth sets the mind free from this spell. Jesus
i find the Gospel of Thomas interesting. I have no use for the gnostic works. as i stated previously, it has been many years since i have studied any of them. i assume most of these works were hidden by the essenes.
follow the money... Elaine Pagels. http://idl.librarything.com/work/38721 "One can see from this section that she was funded by three very prestigious organizations: the Rockefeller Foundation, the Lita A. Hazen Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation." its also humorous that they promote a feminist agenda along with the notion Satan does not exist. funny how this all interconnects with communism and other isms. btw, Hitler and his bunch were gnostics and believed in eugenics. to be honest i haven't even scratched the surface here. i have no doubt you are not ready for the truth. you must let go of you guru ego and realize you have been duped.
There are many who have discovered that what appears to be "out there" is really in "inside", in your mind. They then proceed to study how to manipulate thought to alter what is seen on the outside. Such is the basis of "The Secret", "Think and Grow Rich", and many forms of magic and occultism. You seem to be saying that because I teach similar things, I am duped by the thought system of the world. Not so. Theirs is magic. Mine is miracles. And there is a big difference. Jesus
oh.. i forgot.. you came up with all of this on your on. please forgive me... but your dogma sounds exactly like theirs.
I don't have a monopoly on truth. Truth belongs to all the Sons of God. It is their inheritance. Truth was denied in order to make this world. It is occasionally "recognized" in part. And people get excited and run with what they've got, like a dog with a bone. Most bury what they find, reserving it for personal use. What I do differently is to allow the whole truth to come to my awareness, by desiring the freedom of unlimitedness above all else. And I am willing to share the wealth. Let's take the book "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill for example. You are told that you need a definite purpose, desire, faith, a "mastermind" and some other nifty little tricks. My definite purpose is "holiness". This is the same as wholeness, and that is the doorway to unlimitedness. I desire it. Faith follows desire. For you can only believe in what you want. And you can only see what you believe in. What you see is therefore what you believe. These are the laws of perception that we intend to convert in favor of going back home to abundance. There is a saying, "Whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve". Actually, this entire world is based on this concept, built entirely on belief. Time, space, bodies...all these are beliefs conceived in a very powerful mind. Separation - the opposite of holiness - is the prime conception that is believed in to build this world...this whole, albeit divided, universe from the big bang onward. And as separation manifested, each takes a small, fragmented share of the mind that makes this world and calls it his own. But this was more like, "Think and Grow Poor", because division weakens the mind. Many realize this and use the same principles that built the world to manipulate or negotiate their way through it. In my case, I used the principles to negotiate my way out of it. The "mastermind" principle recognizes that whenever one or more minds join in a common purpose, the power of their mindshare increases such that the whole is greater than the sum of their parts. This is the same with the Son of God. He needs all aspects of himself in order to experience the full power of his strength. He requires the whole sum of his parts in order to create as a creator. Applied to illusions, more effort is needed to accomplish the "impossible". Applied to truth, less effort is needed to leverage power. That is why when a small amount of faith is redirected to the truth, you can move mountains. Miracles only occur when there is a joining of minds whose joint power is applied to the truth. These are quite common, and are done often without surface awareness. Miracles, in which action and awareness are involved, are directed by me. I ask you to perform them. And when you are miracle-minded, you hear and act. And they involve the joining of my mind with the miracle worker in service to the Holy Spirit. The miracle-minded are simply those who are literally open-minded, meaning they are ready and willing to join with any other mind that is willing. The status quo in this world is that everyone is closed-minded, and very unwilling to open the door to others. The world has much invested in the privatization of their mind-share and are very reluctant to give it up. These are poor. And they are not ready to give or receive miracles. Miracles literally collapse parts of the holograph of time, removing vast sections of it. This saves thousands of years of learning lessons the hard way. The basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than is necessary. Time can waste as well as be wasted. The miracle-worker, therefore, accepts the time-control factor gladly. He recognizes that every collapse of time brings everyone closer to the ultimate release from time, in which the Son and the Father are one. When everyone recognizes that he has everything, individual contributions to the Sonship will no longer be necessary. Then is equality realized, and the Atonement process is complete. When it is complete, all talents will be shared by all the Sons of God. For God is not partial. All His children have His total Love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike. This world is partly based on a desire for a special love. And this led to exclusion. The specialness of God's Sons does not stem from exclusion but from inclusion. Holiness is inclusive. All my brothers are special. If my brothers believe they are deprived of anything, their perception becomes distorted. When this occurs, the whole family of God, or the Sonship, is impaired in its relationships. Ultimately, every member of the family of God must return. All the Sons are rich beyond earthly imagination. While lack does not exist in the creation of God, it is very apparent in what you have made. Thus, the essential difference between this world and the Kingdom of God is lack vs abundance. Until the "separation", which is the meaning of the "fall", nothing was lacking. There were no needs at all. Needs only arise when you deprive yourself. You act according to the particular order of needs you establish. This, in turn, depends on your perception of what you are. A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct. This sense of separation would never have arisen if you had not distorted your perception of truth. Denying the truth, you thus perceived yourself as lacking, or, "poor". Books like "Think and Grow Rich" are stepping stones that gradually and gently re-introduce yourself to truth. I take you beyond it's scope, which is simply to increase your level of abundance in this world. I take you beyond this world altogether, for reasons I just mentioned. This world is a place of lack and is not your home. Your home is a place of abundance. The methods I use are similar. I maintained vigilance in my thoughts regarding truth. This is similar to the "auto-suggestion" principle in the book. You can take phrases of truth and meditate on them. For example: "I am in need of nothing but the truth" "My Self is ruler of the universe". These are not much different than, for example, "In three years I will manifest one million dollars". The difference is that dollars are not real, while my Self is. As far as definite purpose, you can state things like, "Let me remember what my purpose is" "God is the only goal I have today". "Let me remember that my goal is God" "My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today have but one purpose; to be given Christ to use to bless the world with miracles". And in this way, you are reversing - undoing - the thought process that built this world, which involved heavy doses of denial and a forgetting process. There are some autosuggestions that are so relevant, and so powerful, you can use them to raise the dead. For example, "I am as God created me" This truth, when seeded, cultivated carefully, and held firmly in the mind, would save the world. These words are sacred, for they are the words God gave in answer to the world you made. By these words the world disappears. They are the trumpet of awakening that sounds around the world. The dead awake in answer to its call. And those who live and hear this sound will never look on death. Jesus
more New Age... everything you spew is "old" new age. tell you what... this afternoon i want you to move a mountain. i will accept a small one.... and i want to see it on the news tomorrow.
There are many healers who did not heal themselves. They have not moved mountains by their faith because their faith was not whole. By this I mean that their faith is always maximal, but divided between what is true and what is illusion. Some of them have healed the sick at times, but they have not raised the dead. Unless the healer heals himself, he cannot believe that there is no order of difficulty in miracles. He has not learned that every mind God created is equally worthy of being healed because God created it whole. You are merely asked to return to God the mind as He created it. He asks you only for what He gave, knowing that this giving will heal you. While you exclude yourself from the return of your mind to God, it means you do not want to be healed. My mind will always be like yours, because we were created as equals. It was only my decision that gave me all power in Heaven and earth. My only gift to you is to help you make the same decision. This decision is the choice to share it. In fact, the decision to share all power in Heaven and earth is the decision to have all power in Heaven and earth. So, I have decided that I will not move a mountain without you. The decision to share power is made by giving it. It is the one choice in this world that resembles true creation. I am your model for decision. By deciding for God I showed you that this decision can be made, and that you can make it. The power of our joint motivation is beyond belief, but not beyond accomplishment. What we can accomplish together has no limits. If you were one with God and recognized this oneness, you would know His power is yours. This message is for you to hear and give away as you answer the Call within you to decide for the power of wholeness. Your sole responsibility as a miracle-worker is to accept total commitment by releasing the inner light within you. Then will your mind be in a state of miracle readiness. You will be "on call" so-to-speak. And you will be performing miracles as I direct, on a daily basis. Ask me which miracles you should perform. This spares you needless effort, because you will be acting under direct communication. I am in charge of the process of bringing the Sons of God together, a process I undertook to begin. Miracles bring them together. The power to work miracles belongs to you. I will provide the opportunities to do them, but you must be ready and willing. Doing them will bring conviction in the ability, because conviction comes through accomplishment. The ability is the potential, the achievement is its expression, and the gathering together of the Sons of God is the purpose. When you offer a miracle to any of my brothers, you do it to yourself and me. You come before me because I don't need miracles for my own healing, because I am whole. But I stand at the end in case you fail temporarily. You are perfectly safe as long as you are completely unconcerned about your readiness, but maintain a consistent trust in mine. If your miracle-working inclinations are not functioning properly, it is always because fear has intruded on your right-mindedness and has turned it upside down. If you do accept right-mindedness for yourself, you are in a position to recognize that those who need healing are simply those who have not realized that right-mindedness is healing. If you are afraid to use the mind to heal, you should not attempt to do so, because this makes your mind vulnerable to mis creation. As long as your sense of vulnerability persists, you should not attempt to perform miracles. However, as a correction, the miracle need not await the right-mindedness of the receiver...because that is it's purpose: to restore to right-mindedness. But it is essential that the miracle worker be in his right mind, however briefly, or he will be unable to re-establish right-mindedness in someone else. We will move this mountain when it will work to correct the mis-perception that this world is real, and gather together our brothers by healing their minds. Jesus