[[pdf]](https://gnosticismexplained.org/the-gospel-of-thomas/)
[pdf]
<aside>
*[jk: related to v. 114 (last verse)] Gnostics claim that an integration of our masculine and feminine polarities is possible, reaching toward a realized human being-ness that does not love from lack, but rather from fullness. Then our love becomes not merely a thirst, but instead an overflowing fountain.
Verse 114 (last verse): it is referencing a custom so common in ancient Greek philosophy that it’s literally cliché: the glossing of matter of female spirit as male. → One must trade trade the flesh for the spirit.
</aside>
Jesus said: “Whoever finds out what these sayings mean will not taste death.”
Jesus said:
Let the seeker keep seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will be disturbed. When he is disturbed, he will be amazed. When he is amazed, he will be invincible to everything. And when he is invincible to everything, he will be at rest.
Jesus said:
If pleasing speakers say to you. ‘Look, the Kingdom of God is in the sky’, then the birds of the sky will get there before you. If they say to you, ’It is in the waters’, then the fish of the waters will get there before you. Instead, the Kingdom of God is in you and all around you.
Those who come to know themselves will find it. And when you come to know yourselves, you will see that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not come to know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and that poverty is you.
Jesus said:
A person of many years will be willing to ask a child of seven days about the nature of life, and that person will live. For many who are first shall be last, and many who are last, shall be first. And the many will become one.
Jesus said: “Understand what is right in front of your face, and all the secrets will be revealed to you. There is no secret that will not be revealed.”
Jesus’ disciples asked him: “How should we fast? How should be pray? Should we give alms? What should we eat?”
Jesus said:
> Do not lie, and do not do what you hate, for all things are known to Heaven. There is no secret that will not be revealed, and all that is covered will be uncovered.
>
Jesus said: “Blessed is the lion that is eaten by a human so that the lion becomes human. And cursed is the human that is eaten by a lion so that the lion becomes human.”
Jesus said:
Some people are like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the water and pulled it out full of little fish. The fisherman spotted a fine big fish in their midst immediately chose it over all the little fish, which he threw back into the water. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
Jesus said:
A sower went out with a handful of seeds and cast them. Some landed on a path, and the birds came and pecked them out. Others landed on rocks, where they could not reach the soil and so could not produce a crop. Others landed on thorns, which smothered the seeds, and the worms ate them. But others landed in good soil, and these sent up a good crop, some sixty per measure and some a hundred and twenty per measure.
Jesus said: “I have lit a spark in the midst of the world, and I am tending it until it comes a blaze.”
Jesus said:
This sphere of heaven will perish, and so will the one above it. What is dead is not alive, and what is alive will not die. In the days when you ate what was dead, you brought to life. [text possibly missing] When you step into the light, what will you do? In the days when you were one, you split into two. When you split into two, what will you do?
Jesus’ disciples said to him: “We know that you will leave us. When you do, who will lead us?” Jesus said: “No matter where you are coming from, go to James the Just, for whose sake Heaven and earth were created.”
Jesus said: “Compare me to something that is like me.” Simon Peter said to him: “You are like an angel of justice.” Matthew said to him, “You are like a brilliant philosopher.” But Thomas said to him: “Teacher, none of the words my mouth can form can say what you are like.”
Jesus said to Thomas: “I am not your teacher, for you have quaffed the frothing spring that I have poured for you, and you have become drunk.”
And he took Thomas aside and spoke three sayings to him. When Thomas returned to his companions, they asked him: “What did he say to you?”
Thomas said to them: “If I were to tell you even one of the sayings he spoke to me, you would grab rocks and stone me, and fire would burst forth from the rocks and devour you.” 14. (critique of religious practices) Jesus said to them: “If you fast, you will commit a sin. If you pray, you will be damned. If you give alms, you will bring evil upon your souls.”
”When you travel somewhere and people take you in, eat whatever they serve you, and heal those who are sick. For you are not defiled by what goes into your mouth, but rather what comes out of it.” 15. Jesus said: “When you find someone who was not born of any woman, fall on your faces and bow before him. For that one is your Father.” 16. Jesus said: “People may think that I have come to bring peace to the world. They do not know that I have come to bring strife: fire, sword, and war. In a house where five people live, three will be against two, and two will be against three. Parent will be against child and child against parent. Each will be alone against all.”