Discover the gospel they tried to buryānot for being false, but for being too free. Explore the hidden wisdom of Thomas and the mystics they couldnāt silence.
I love the Gospel of Thomas and you expounded this love for great reasons. Thereās something about its simple nature that makes it complex in visualization and heart. Truly, I love it.
Melody, your words shine like a secret verse hidden between the linesāsimple on the tongue, yet stirring the marrow. The Gospel of Thomas is a paradoxical jewel: so spare it whispers, so deep it undoes the mind. Thank you for seeing the dance behind the silence. You, too, are clearly in on the divine joke. šāØ
what do you make of the last verse of the gospel of thomas?
Simon Peter said to him, "Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life." Jesus said, "I myself shall lead her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven."
and if it was suppressed because of the politics of the council of nicaea in 325 AD why did origen condemn 100 years before that (in his Homilies on Luke)?
The proto-orthodox were already drawing boundaries around which texts, voices, and teachings counted as ārealā Christianity long before imperial power got involved.
Nicaea did not create that process. It helped give the winning side institutional force.
And the irony is that Origen himself later got condemned by the same broad tradition he helped shape. They used his brilliance, then threw him under the bus once parts of it became inconvenient.
Regarding Peters comment
I read it through the wider symbolism of Thomas, especially Saying 22, where Jesus says the goal is to make male and female into a single whole, so that male is no longer male and female is no longer female.
In that reading, āmaleā means the completed human being, the anthropos, the person who has become whole, undivided, and spiritually alive.
Thomasās early Christianity, like early Buddhism, kept it beautifully simple ā what we are searching for is already with us. Yes, Jesus was a Zen master! Lots of his parables are like koans. Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh compared Buddhism & Christianity in his book, Living Buddha, Living Christ.
I love the Gospel of Thomas and you expounded this love for great reasons. Thereās something about its simple nature that makes it complex in visualization and heart. Truly, I love it.
Melody, your words shine like a secret verse hidden between the linesāsimple on the tongue, yet stirring the marrow. The Gospel of Thomas is a paradoxical jewel: so spare it whispers, so deep it undoes the mind. Thank you for seeing the dance behind the silence. You, too, are clearly in on the divine joke. šāØ
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what do you make of the last verse of the gospel of thomas?
Simon Peter said to him, "Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life." Jesus said, "I myself shall lead her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven."
and if it was suppressed because of the politics of the council of nicaea in 325 AD why did origen condemn 100 years before that (in his Homilies on Luke)?
The proto-orthodox were already drawing boundaries around which texts, voices, and teachings counted as ārealā Christianity long before imperial power got involved.
Nicaea did not create that process. It helped give the winning side institutional force.
And the irony is that Origen himself later got condemned by the same broad tradition he helped shape. They used his brilliance, then threw him under the bus once parts of it became inconvenient.
Regarding Peters comment
I read it through the wider symbolism of Thomas, especially Saying 22, where Jesus says the goal is to make male and female into a single whole, so that male is no longer male and female is no longer female.
In that reading, āmaleā means the completed human being, the anthropos, the person who has become whole, undivided, and spiritually alive.
Thank you very much for reposting this wonderful essay! Today I will read a saying from Thomas.š¹
Thomasās early Christianity, like early Buddhism, kept it beautifully simple ā what we are searching for is already with us. Yes, Jesus was a Zen master! Lots of his parables are like koans. Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh compared Buddhism & Christianity in his book, Living Buddha, Living Christ.