Amazing. I have been posting for two months now with near zero interaction of any sort. Clearly I have been throwing pearls to swine.
What you will hear in your ear
in the other ear proclaim from your rooftops.
No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket,
nor in a hidden place.
You put it on a stand
so that all who come and go will see its light.
When you make the two into one,
and when you make the inner like the outer
and the outer like the inner
and the upper like the lower,
and when you make male and female into a single one,
so that the male will not be male nor the female be female,
when you make eyes in place of an eye,
a hand in place of a hand,
a foot in place of a foot,
an image in place of an image,
then you will enter the kingdom.
Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me.
I myself shall become that person,
and the hidden things will be revealed to that one.
Be eager for the word.
The first aspect of the word if faith,
the second is love,
the third is works,
and from these comes life.
The word is like a grain of wheat.
When someone sowed it, he had faith in it,
and when it sprouted, he loved it,
because he saw many grains instead of just one.
And after he worked, he was saved because he prepared it as food
and he still kept some out to sow.
This is also how you can acquire heaven's kingdom for yourselves.
Unless you acquire it thorough knowledge (gnosis),
you will not be able to find it.
Jesus is a hidden name, Christ is an open one.
So Jesus is not a word in any tongue but a name
they call him.
In Syriac the Christ is messias, in Greek he is christos.
All languages have their own way of calling him.
Nazarene is the revealed name for what is secret.
Truth made names in the world,
and without them we can’t think.
Truth is one and is many,
teaching one thing through the many.
The perfect human can neither be restrained nor seen.
If they see him, they can stop him,
so there is no way to grace but to put on
the perfect light and become perfect.
All who put on that garment will enter the kingdom.
This is the perfect light.
We must become perfect before leaving this world.
Who is rich and has not thrown it off
will not share in the kingdom
but will go as imperfect into the middle.
Only Jesus knows where that will end.
*"perfect" can also be translated as "complete"
The heavens and earth will roll up in your presence
and you who live from the living one will not see death.
Whoever has found oneself,
of that person the world is not worthy.
I am the light over all things.
I am all.
From me all has come forth,
and to me all has reached.
Split a piece of wood.
I am there.
Lift up the stone
and you will find me there.
Show me the stone that the builders rejected.
That is the cornerstone.
Have you discovered the beginning and now are seeking the end?
Where the beginning is, the end will be.
Blessings on you who stand at the beginning.
You will know the end and not taste death.
You see images,
but the light within them is hidden in the image
of the father’s light.
He will be disclosed,
but his image is hidden by his light.
The messengers and the prophets will come to you
and give you what is yours.
You give them what you have and wonder,
“When will they come and take what is theirs?”
Soul and spirit came into being from water and fire.
From water and fire and light came the attendant
in the bridal chamber.
Fire is chrism. Light is fire.
I am not referring to flame,
which has no form, but to another kind of fire,
whose appearance is white,
which is luminous and beautiful
and gives beauty.
If you bring forth what is within you,
what you have will save you.
If you have nothing within you,
what you do not have within you
will kill you.
Jesus pulled out the root of the whole place
while others did it only partially.
As for us, let each one dig down after the root of evil
that is within us
and pluck it out of our heart from the root.
It will be uprooted if we recognize it.
But if we are ignorant of it, it takes root in us
and produces fruit in our heart. It masters us.
We are its slaves. It takes us captive
to make us do what we do not want;
and what we do want we do not do.
It is powerful because we have not recognized it.
While it exists it is active.
When you make two into one,
you will become human children.
When you say, “Mountain, move,”
the mountain will move.
It is impossible to see anything in the real realm
unless you become it.
Not so in the world. You see the sun without being the sun,
see sky and earth but are not them.
This is the truth of the world.
In the other truth you are what you see.
If you see spirit, you are spirit.
If you look at the anointed, you are the anointed.
If you see the father, you will be father.
In this world you see everything but yourself,
but there, you look at yourself and are what you see.
A city built upon a high hill and fortified cannot fall,
nor can it be hidden.
A donkey turning a millstone walked a hundred miles.
When it was set loose, it found itself in the same place.
Some people travel long but go nowhere.
At twilight they have seen no cities or villages,
no human constructions or phenomena of nature,
no powers or angels.
These miserable ones have labored in vain.