“TRUTH IS THE MOUTH OF THE FATHER. Each one loves truth because truth is the mouth of the father. His tongue is the holy spirit. Whoever touches truth touches the mouth of the father by his tongue at the time when one will receive the holy spirit. This is the manifestation of the father and his revelation to his eternal beings. He revealed what is hidden in him and explained it. For who is it who exists if it is not the father himself? All the spaces are his emanations. They knew that they stem from him as children from a perfect man. They knew that they had not yet received form, nor had they yet received a name, every one of which the father produces. If they at that time receive the form of his knowledge, though they are truly in him, they do not know him. But the father is perfect. He knows every space that is within him. If he pleases, he reveals anyone whom he desires by giving him a form and by giving him a name; and he does give a name and cause to come into being. Those who do not yet exist are ignorant of him who created them. I do not say, then, that those who do not yet exist are nothing. But they are in him who will desire that they exist when he pleases, like an event that is going to happen. On the one hand, he knows, before anything is revealed, what he will produce. On the other hand, the fruit that has not yet been revealed does not know anything nor is anything either. Thus each space that, on its part, is in the father comes from the existent one, who, on his part, has established it from the nonexistent. For whoever has no root has no fruit, but although thinking, “I have come into being,” that one will perish. For this reason, whoever does not exist at all will never exist.” ~Gospel of Truth
Truth is the Mouth of the Father
It is an interesting way that the writer of this gospel chose to word this. He doesn’t say that only truth comes from the mouth of the Father, or that what God speaks is truth and nothing but truth, but that truth is the mouth of the Father. In this way, he is stating emphatically that everything that comes out of the “mouth” of the Father is truth, and always truth. Of course, God doesn’t have a mouth in the physical sense, yet He does have a voice, and that voice is the voice of Truth and Wisdom, always and forever.
One might ask at this point, “Why then are there so many contradictions in the Bible, especially between the Old and New Testament, and also in the scripture of other religions?” The answer is complex. First, much of what is written in those books is the interpretation of humans of what God showed them in visions, or otherwise. This may result in different interpretations of what is the same truth. Another reason is that some of what many believe to be the Word of God is actually the Word of the Demiurge, the Lesser God, or False God that created matter, but not spirit. That is why matter is defective (death, disease, destruction, etc.) while spirit is not.
All the Spaces Are His Emanations
This is true in one sense, and not true in another. Everything spiritual is from God, but matter is not. At least not directly. Matter is the creation of the Demiurge, the false god, but it is not true creation. Because the Demiurge created matter by changing spirit, some spirit remains in matter, and therefore some of the essence of God remains in matter. It is that spirit within matter that has God in it. And the matter that is not from God is beginning to undergo the changes that will turn it into spirit once again. That is God’s Great Plan: to restore everything to spirit.
No Form or Name
I don’t know about the idea that within God’s mind there are beings that do not yet have a form or a name, so they don’t really exist and are not conscious until God gives them a form and a name. This may be an allegory, but its significance escapes me. Since God’s Consciousness is all that truly exists, anything that is held in that consciousness must be real. At least it seems that way to me. God thinks of a being and it comes into existence. But I could be wrong.
From the SUN TALK collection by Harold Boulette