The Gospel of Thomas

Soul to Soul and Spirit to SpiritOnly Christ is Present.

Christ lives Itself as Itself, Omnipresent. Weve been carrying forward the
principle from the last talk, Knowing No One After the Flesh, allowing, letting, asking
Christ to reveal Christ where the flesh appears to be, in those we come in contact with as
well as ourselves, as we walk around or when we sit down for meditation, Christ reveal
Christ.
A couple of days ago in following this, what I received within was the Gospel of
Thomas. So I went out to the garage, fumbled around with some boxes out there and put
my hands on my copy of The Gospel of Thomas - The Hidden Sayings of Jesus. When
I opened it, imagine my surprise, on the second line, in the prologue, it goes like this:
These are the hidden sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Judas Thomas the
twin recorded. Whosoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste
death.
I could feel that there was something in there: Whosoever discovers the
interpretation of these sayings will not taste death. And so I asked, What does that
mean? What is hidden in this hidden saying? Whosoever discovers the interpretation of
these sayings will not taste death. Well I knew this couldnt have anything to do with a
human being because there are no human beings. So it doesnt have anything to do with
figuring out what these hidden sayings mean. It doesnt have anything to do with an
intellectual understanding. Therefore, I knew that something else was being said. We
were being given, well it was a finger pointing at the moon, and so rather than look at the
finger, I looked at the moon and saw. And this is what I saw; Whosoever discovers the
interpretation of these sayings will not taste death. Who can discover the interpretation
of these sayings? Ah, you say, spiritual discernment. And you are correct. And who
has spiritual discernment? Where is this spiritual discernment located? Is it located in
the mind? Can a developed intellectual capacity discern spiritually? No, spiritual
discernment is not located in a human mind. A human cannot have spiritual discernment,
can they? The natural man receiveth not the things of God, neither can he know them
for they spiritually discerned.

And so the human cannot receive the things of God. A human being cannot use
spiritual discernment and discover the interpretation of these sayings. Who then? Who
can discover the interpretation of these sayings? Spiritual discernment. Spiritual

discernment is a faculty of Spirit. It is Spirits discernment; it is the Christ within you. It

is the Christ of you. This Christ has spiritual discernment. So we read, Whosoever
discovers the interpretation of these sayings, that is the Christ of you, will not taste
death. And suddenly I saw, I saw. When the interpretations of these sayings are being
made evident within me, or within you, this is the Christ-Mind; this is the Christ of us, in
the ascendancy, revealing these things. And this Christ will never taste of death.

So that was the first thing and moving into the sayings, these hidden sayings,
Jesus said, Let one who seeks, not stop seeking until one finds. This first sentence is
pretty plain. Lets read it through and then come back. Jesus said,
Let one who seeks, not stop seeking until one finds. When one finds one will be
troubled, when one is troubled, one will marvel and will rule over all.
That is the first hidden saying. What does it mean? Let one who seeks, not stop
seeking until one finds. This is pretty obvious. Do not give up the search, only search
within. That is where you will find. When one finds, one will be troubled. I think
some of us are beginning to understand this. In the last talk, Know No Man after the
Flesh, it was revealed that there are no human beings on earth. It was revealed that there
is no flesh, that this is a spiritual universe and anything else that we see is simply a
deceptive state of thought.

That means your complete and total human identity is nothing but a deceptive
state of thought, obscuring from your vision, your Christ identity, your spiritual life, that
one who has the spiritual discernment to discover the interpretations of these sayings.
That one which will never taste death. And that is a bit troubling. That personal sense of
self does not want to get out of the drivers seat, that personal sense of self does not want
to die.
Paul said, I die daily, and that personal sense of self must die if you would live
and know Life Eternal. Know yourself as Life Eternal. And so it is a bit troubling;
especially when we hear this for the first time, when we catch this for the first time. My
God, I am not even a human. Everything I thought I knew about myself is incorrect, a
mirage. I feel like Im floating out here in nothing, nowhere to anchor myself. It is
troubling. And so let one who seeks not stop seeking until one finds but when one finds
one will be troubled. And I suspect many of you are feeling that troubling.
But when one is troubled, then one will marvel. Yes, because as you grapple
with this, as you take it into your meditation, as Christ stands pounding at the door of
your consciousness for entrance, as your true Self says, I am ready to arise, you must
die, I must decrease and He must increase. Then you are troubled but something

wonderful begins to happen. The Christ begins to operate right where you are. You
begin to have strange and wonderful experiences.
Things happen to you that dont happen to the rest of humanity, still living in a
human dream. Very strange and wonderful things happen and for each one it is different,
but for each one, everyone marvels and knows, it is I, the living Christ, I really am real.
And so, Let one who seeks, not stop seeking until one finds. When one finds one will be
troubled, when one is troubled, then next one will marvel but you will only marvel for
so long because there will come an end to marveling and a beginning to Christ living
where you live -- a beginning to Christ living you, Christ living as Itself, as you. And
then you will rule over all. The Christ of you will ascend into that seat of authority and
take charge of your entire living experience. This is the first hidden saying of Jesus. And
in three lines we are given the key.

Now for the next saying,

If your leaders say to you, Look, the kingdom is in heaven, then the birds of
heaven will precede you. If they say to you, It is in the sea, then the fish will precede
you. Rather the kingdom is inside you and it is outside you.
What is the meaning? If your leaders say to you, leaders would have to be that
which leads the human race which of course is their great understanding or intellect or
mind or perhaps even emotions, also a part of the mind. So if your mind says to you,
Look! The Kingdom of God is in heaven, that is, up in the sky somewhere, then the
birds of heaven will precede you. It means that, well what comes to me is, if you ever
watch a baseball game, one of the players hits a home run and they trot around the bases
and as they come into home, step on home plate, they point to the sky. A lot of them do
that. And I know why they are pointing to the sky, because theyre acknowledging
heaven or someone that they love in heaven, this one is for you or just maybe simply
Thank you, God. Its an acknowledgment of heaven somewhere up in the sky.

And yet, here is this one called Jesus, which many saw as just a man, but now we
understand as the Christ and since there is only one Christ, it is the Christ of us, the Christ
of our being, it is our true identity saying, if the mind says to you, look the kingdom is up
there in heaven, then the birds of heaven will precede you because they are flying around
up there and they know there is no heaven, theres no kingdom up there. If the leaders
say to you, the kingdom is in the sea, I believe back during these times, there might
have been some people that still worshipped God in the sea, Poseidon, yet Christ is
saying, If the mind says to you, it is in the sea, then the fish will precede you because the
fish are everywhere in the sea and they know there is no Kingdom there. So in that sense,
they are ahead of you.

Ah, but now the Christ gives us the hidden saying at last. Rather the Kingdom
is inside you and it is outside you, which means, in him we live and move and have our
being. We live and move and have our being in the Kingdom of God. In our silence, in
our stillness, in our meditation, the Kingdom moves in us. The Kingdom is inside you,
the Kingdom is outside you, the Kingdom is Omnipresent, and the Kingdom is
Omnipresence.

And he continues, in this third hidden saying,

When you know yourself, then you will be known and you will understand that
you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourself, then you dwell in
poverty and you are poverty.

This is pretty straightforward and yet spiritual discernment says, when you know
yourself, your real Self, then you will be known, because when you know your real Self,
It takes over and It is known. And you will understand that you, in your true identity, are
a manifestation of the living Father, God.

This is what putting on immortality, coming into the awareness of your

Christhood, isunderstanding completely that you are the offspring of the living Father,
the expression of the living Father, the manifestation of the living Father; God, Itself,
Christ, the Presence of God. But if you do not know that Self, then you dwell in poverty
and you are poverty. This is what the human identity is, dwelling in poverty, and you are
poverty.

And the fourth hidden saying,

The person old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about
the place of life and that person will live.

Meaning the person old in days, that is the human that is old in days, will not
hesitate to ask a little child seven days old, that is someone who has newly discovered
their Christ identity and has just been born again into the new Consciousness. The person
old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child seven days oldin this Spiritual
Kingdomabout the place of life. And that person will live.

For many of the first will be last and will become a single one.

Many of the first will be last, which means, those who discover their true identity,
do not discover it just for themselves. The discovery of Christhood carries with it a
responsibility and that responsibility is for Christhood to help others up. Many of the
first will be last and will become a single one. That is all that can happen. As you
awaken to Christ, that is all you can see; one Christ, one Life, one Face, one Being, one
Presence, and I within you am that One.

And finally, the last hidden saying on this page, number 5:

Jesus said, Know what is in front of your face and what is hidden from you will
be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.
Know what is in front of your face. You are not looking at flesh, you are not
looking at matter, you are not looking at a material universe, you are not looking at a
structural world. Knowing what is in front of your face means you know you are looking
at a mental image and as you know that and you drop it, what is hidden from you will be
disclosed to you. Christ will disclose Itself, for there is nothing hidden that will not be
revealed if you know what is in front of your face.
Know what is in front of your face and what is hidden from you will be disclosed
to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.

And that which has revealed, the interpretation of these sayings, is your own
Christ identity because there is only One, whether speaking in you or speaking in me,
there is but One. And that Christ identity will not taste of death.

From these hidden sayings, it came to me that we should review a portion of The
New Horizon. See if this does not fit with these ancient hidden sayings.

The sense which presents pictures of discord and inharmony, disease and death,
is the universal mesmerism which produces the entire dream of human existence.
This is knowing what is in front of your face.

It must be understood that there is no more reality to harmonious human

existence than to discordant world conditions. It must be realized that the entire human
scene is mesmeric suggestion, and we, you and I, must rise above the desire for even
good human conditions.

This is really an order to those serious students. And so what we just read is
exactly this: Know what is in front of your face and what is hidden from you will be
disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.

Now we are going to read the same thing two thousand years later, again revealed
by Christ.

Understand fully that suggestion, belief, or hypnotism is the substance, or fabric,

of the whole mortal universe and that human conditions of both good and evil are dream
pictures having no reality or permanence. Be willing for the harmonious as well as the
inharmonious conditions of mortal existence to disappear from your experience in order
that reality may be known and enjoyed and lived.

Or in order that what is hidden may be revealed. Hypothetically, this sounds

pretty good until we take a look at that loved one whom we love, out of this world and
realize if we apply the same thing, that that too is a part of the dream experience because
only Christ is here. At that point, one will be troubled when one finds, one will be
troubled. But when one will be troubled, one will marvel and then will rule over all.
Now we are going to get into the marvel part. And here it is: After you are troubled,
yet you pass through that and become willing for the harmonious as well as the
inharmonious conditions of mortal existence to disappear from your experience, then you
come into the marveling.
Above the sense life there is a universe of spirit governed by love, peopled with
children of God, living in the household or temple of truth.
You will understand that you are children of the living Father. You see these
things? These are identical.

Above this sense life there is a universe of spirit governed by Love, peopled with
children of God, living in the household or temple of Truth. This world is real and
permanent.

Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings, which is the child of,

God living in the household or temple of Truth, shall not taste of death. This
world is real and permanent: Its substance is eternal Consciousness. In it there is no
awareness of discords or even of temporary and material good.
We are standing here, ladies and gentlemen, right here.
The first glimpse of Realityof the Soul-realmof your Christ identity, comes
with the recognition and realization of the fact that all temporal conditions and
experiences are self-hypnotism. With the realization that the entire human sceneits
good as well as its evilis illusion, or as Thomas says, when you know what is in front of
your face, then that which is hidden is revealed.
With the realization that the entire human sceneits good as well as its evilis
illusion, come the first glimpse and taste of the world of Gods creation and of the sons of
God who inhabit the spiritual kingdom.

And you marvel; because,

Now in this moment of uplifted consciousness, we are able, even though faintly, to
see ourselves free of material, mortal, human and legal laws. We behold ourselves
separate and apart from the bondage of sense, from a sense life and in a measure we
glimpse the unlimited boundaries of eternal Life and of infinite Consciousness.
Now this is a real experience. Thomas tells us what is hidden is revealed. Joel
tells us we glimpse eternal Life of infinite Consciousness. This is what you are! Now we
are coming to that place where we are experiencing that which I am.
The experience at first is like watching the world disappear over a horizon and
drop down from before us. There is no attachment to this world, no desire to hold on to
itprobably because to a great extent the experience does not come until a great
measure of our desire for things of this world has been overcome.
That is true. If you are at the place, we said in the last talk where you are still
seeking people, places and things, you are not ready for the experience. And yet, if you
are that place where you are finding and you have been troubled, and yet you are
beginning to have this experience where you marvel at your true Christ identity, then you
are ready for the experience of Christ living you.
At first we cannot speak of it. There is a sense of Touch me not; for I am not yet
ascendedI am still between the two worlds; do not touch me or make me speak of it
because it may drag me back. Let me be free to rise; then, when I am completely free of
the mesmerism and its pictures, (that is of human identity,) I will tell you of many things
which eyes have not seen nor ears heard. Do we see?

The first glimpse into the heaven of here and now is the beginning of the
ascension for us.

If you hear, if you have ears to hear and you hear what Christ is saying, the Christ
of you is saying through Thomas, through Joel, through Bill, through you, then this is the
beginning of the ascension for you, out of humanhood into Christhood, that Christ which
will not taste of death.

This ascension is understood now as a rising above the conditions and

experiences of this world, and we behold the many mansions prepared for us in
spiritual Consciousnessin the awareness of Reality (of our Christhood.)

No good thing is withheld from us as we look above the physical evidence to the
great Invisible, Christ. Look up, look up! The kingdom of heaven is at hand! Your true
identity is at hand.

I am breaking the sense of limitation for you as an evidence of MY presence and

of MY influence in your experience. Ithe I of youam in the midst of you revealing the
harmony and infinity of spiritual experience. Ithe I of younever a personal sense of
Inever a personbut the I of youam ever with you. Look up.
Christ says, My sheep hear my voice and they follow me. Do you hear the
Christ of you calling? This is not a man. Two thousand years ago the world missed the
Christ because the world could only see a man, a man named Jesus. And that man
troubled the world, but the world did not follow through with the process and so the
world never reached that stage of marveling. And it certainly did not reach the stage of
ruling over all in Christ identity.

Now again, two thousand years later, the Christ stands before you. Do not see a
man; do not hear a man; hear the Christ of you calling. Look through the glass darkly,
the mesmerism of a human identity and behold the Christ in everyone, as everyone. And
most especially in your meditation now, look through the glass darkly of a human
identity where you are and behold the invisible Christ.

Look up at Christ and Christ will ascend and you will have the experience as we
stated in the beginning of this talkmarvelous, wonderful experiences coming forth,
unfolding from the Invisible and each of you will have marvelous experiences. Some
you cant even share, or cant even speak of, but you knowyou know from whence
they come.

This talk today is being given from the Christ of your identity, the Christ of your
being, your real identity. That is what is speaking to you. Do not see a man, do not miss
the Christ. Do not miss what is in front of your face. Understanding what is in front of
your face, the hidden things will now be revealed to you. For what is hidden, will not
stay hidden much longer. All truth will be revealed to you. The hidden Christ shall be
manifest in your experience and as your experience. And this hidden Christ is within
you. Your Consciousness and this hidden Christ are one. This hidden Christ, your
Consciousness, is ever able to interpret these sayings and your Invisible Christhood, your
infinite Consciousness, will not taste of death.

This is the first talk on the Gospel of Thomas, the Hidden Sayings of Jesus. But
now we understand they are the hidden sayings of the Invisible Christ. And they lead to
an initiation, to the death of the human, to the birth of the Christ identity.

So be it.