“Even the halls of judgment are no longer inviolate; the decrees are cast forth to be stamped underfoot by ignorant men. Even things that sustain the spirit now serve to prepare sustenance for the belly. Records are falsified, so that no man knows the true from the false. The tallies of produce are no longer taken, and corn becomes the property of any man. He who lies readily gets the best; he who acts the deceiver gets most. Ignorant men have raised themselves to high estate by falsehood and deceit. None

raises hand or voice against them, and therefore their ways are acclaimed and emulated. Truth is mocked and justice vilified.

“A man fears his brother as a foe and his son as a betrayer. He plows his field bearing shield and sword. Men walk abroad girded for battle, but now the day has dawned when henceforth even manly defense is denied them. When a man is slain by the side of his own brother, he who lives flees to save his limbs. When a woman is ravished, they who see turn away. The screams of maidens fall on deaf ears.

“Spearmen gather in bands, but the standards they bear are not those of justice and Truth. Bowmen stand alert, and arrows are loosened in their quivers. The men of blood exult, for it is their day. If a man of high estate be unguarded, he is slain, and if rich he is robbed. If a highborn woman be unprotected through lack of kindred or gold, she becomes a harlot. In the marketplace men say, ‘Better a well fed harlot than a goddess dead from hunger.’”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MAN:30:12-14)

Stamped Underfoot

The quote above was written thousands of years ago, but we see many of the same problems today. Since these writings are all about spiritual matters, we can assume that the reference to judgment is not about civil judges but about those who were in charge of judging the students of the spiritual Mystery Schools of the day. In those times, such judges also made rules for the general population to follow if they wanted to remain in the good graces of God, but as the quote says, their decrees were ignored and stamped underfoot by those who were turning away from the spiritual and toward the material.

Records are Falsified

It has long been noted that history books, especially those about the history of wars, are written by the victors. While they may not be false, they are rarely accurate as they almost always vilify the losers. In addition, today we no longer have news media that sticks to simply telling the facts. Instead, they are full of opinion so depending on which newspaper you read, or news program you watch, you can get completely opposite views of an issue or event.

High Estate

We are certainly seeing in today’s world many instances of ignorant men and women being elected to high office, or putting themselves in those offices. Sadly, many ignorant and uneducated people think it is a good idea to have such people as their leaders.

It is also true, as it was at the time of the quote, that most men are afraid to say anything against these despots for fear of punishment for doing so.

Standards are not those of Justice and Truth

We are also seeing this today. People are once again wearing the swastika with impunity, as well as other symbols of white supremacy. In addition, flags that once flew to represent truth, justice, and equality, are now used to represent the opposite. And armies do march to do evil and protect the despots rather than protecting the innocent. Fortunately, a new age of Spirit is coming, and all of these horrors will end.

“I am a priest of the lord and serve him as priest. I offer him the offering of his thought. His thought is not like the world, not of the flesh or of those who serve in the flesh. The lord offers his goodness, his stainless heart and lips, his inner world that is faultless. Let hearts not oppress hearts, nor souls harm souls. Don’t bribe a stranger, because that stranger is you. Don’t trick your neighbor. Don’t take the clothing from him that hides his nakedness, but dress in the grace of the lord generously and walk in paradise and from his tree make a garland for your head. Loop it around your hair. Be happy and rest in his rest. His glory will go before you. You will inhabit his kindness and grace and be fat in truth with the praise of his holiness. Praise and honor his name. I raised my arms high to the grace of the lord, for he cast off my bonds. My helper had raised me to his grace and salvation. I discarded darkness and dressed in the clothing of light. My soul acquired a body free from sorrow, free from torture and mutilation. The lord’s thought restored me. I fed on his incorruptible fellowship. In the light he raised me. I went to him, near him, praising and shouting his name. He made my heart flood into my mouth. I was rescued from my chains and fled to you, my god. You are the right hand of my salvation and my helper. You held back those who rose against me and the disappeared. Your face was with me. I was saved by your grace. But in the eyes of many I was abhorred and excluded. In their eyes I was lead. I assumed strength from you and drank your help.”

-Songs of Solomon

I Serve God as a Priest

The function of a priest or minister is to serve God. We serve God by obeying His will and by doing His work on earth. We also serve God by sending thoughts of Peace, Love, Joy, and Truth to others. When we help the downtrodden, the rejects of the social system, and those who are ill or handicapped, we are serving God. Most of all, we help God when we help others turn away from materialism and toward the spiritual life that God wants all of us to have.

His World is Faultless

God’s World, also called the Kingdom of God or heaven, is faultless. It is a place where there is no death, no disease and no suffering. It is a place of Truth where no lies exist. It is also a place of Knowledge. Knowledge of all that is real. It is not a place of rest. The souls who have reached that level still continue to work helping others.

That Stranger is You

When you bribe a stranger, trick your neighbor, or cheat another person, you are only doing it to yourself. That is because, ultimately, we are all part of the One Whole creation of God. The modern science of Quantum Physics has shown that things can be connected together, even at a great distance. But in actual fact, all things are connected together in the great matrix of life. So, even when you harm an animal, you are hurting yourself.

Discard Darkness and Dress in Light

Some people who think they are spiritual believe we need to accept Darkness as a part of what we are just as much as Light. That philosophy is wrong. We do need to acknowledge that we have a dark side, but we don’t embrace it; we discard it as much as possible, as the quote says. There will always be some darkness in us, but we should not let it get its way. When we slip up and do something dark, we should forgive ourselves and embrace the Light. Don’t give up on yourself just because you slip a little. Keep moving forward to the Light. That is how you live as a priest of God.

“Some are afraid that they will ascend from death naked, and they want to climb back to life in their flesh. They are unaware that those who wear their flesh are naked, and those who strip are not naked. ‘Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of god.’ What will we not inherit? The flesh we wear on us. Then both are wrong. You say the flesh won’t ascend. Tell me, what will rise so I can honor you? You say spirit in the flesh and light in the flesh. What is the flesh? You say there is nothing outside the flesh. Then rise in the flesh, since everything exists in it. In this world those wearing garments are better than garments. In heaven the garments are better than the wearers.

“Through water and fire this wide realm is purified, and the visible cleaned by the visible, and the hidden by the hidden, but there are elements concealed in the visible. …

“The heavenly man has more children than a man on earth. If the offspring of Adam are many and die, how many more are the offspring of perfect beings who do not die and are born each second? The father makes a child. The child cannot make a son. He has not the power to make children. One recently born is not a parent. The son has brothers and sisters, not children. In this world there is a natural order to birth, and one is nourished by ordinary means. We are nourished by the promise of heaven, from the mouth of the word. If the word emanated from the mouth, it is perfect. By a kiss the perfect conceive and give birth. That is why we kiss. From the grace in others we conceive. …

“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.”

-The Gospel of Philip

Ascending Naked

You have to read and understand the entire sentence here to realize that what it means by “naked” is without the physical body. Those who believe they can ascend while still in the physical body need to read scripture more closely.

Nothing Outside the Flesh

Some people believe their physical body is all they have, so it must be able to ascend into Heaven, but they are wrong. Only the Soul ascends into Heaven, and then only if it has been properly prepared and nurtured.

Purified by Water and Fire

Yes, we are purified by water and fire, but not the physical elements bearing those names. This is an allegorical reference. We are purified by God’s Word and God’s Light. That is the water and fire that purifies the Soul.

More Children

How can a person in heaven have more children than a person on Earth? How can they have any children with no physical body? It is because when you have succeeded in ascending to Heaven, you become one with God, one with the All, therefore, all souls are your brothers and sisters, all are your children, all are your spouses because all are in the One.

Impossible to See

Philip says it is impossible to see anything in the real realm of spirit unless you become it. I think that may be an exaggeration. We can see spirits at times when we practice spiritual development techniques. Perhaps what Philip means is that we cannot really understand the spiritual until we are part of it. It’s like a primitive person seeing a car for the first time. They do see it in a limited way, but they don’t understand it.

“Speak concerning the truth to those who seek it and of knowledge to those who, in their error, have committed sins. Make sure-footed those who stumble, and stretch forth your hands to the sick. Nourish the hungry, and set at ease those who are troubled. Raise up and awaken those who sleep. You are this understanding that seizes you. If the strong follow this course, they are even stronger. Turn your attention to yourselves. Do not be concerned with other things, namely, that which you have cast forth from yourselves, that which you have dismissed. Do not return to them to eat them. Do not be moth-eaten. Do not be worm-eaten, for you have already shaken it off. Do not be a place of the devil, for you have already destroyed him. Do not strengthen your last obstacles, because that is reprehensible. For the lawless one is nothing. He harms himself more than the law. For that one does his works because he is a lawless person. But this one, because he is a righteous person, does his works among others. Do the will of the father, then, for you are from him. For the father is sweet and his will is good. He knows the things that are yours, so that you may rest yourselves in them.”

-The Gospel of Peace

Speak to Those Who Seek

We should share our spiritual knowledge with others, but only to a point. Some spiritual knowledge can be shared with all, but some must be reserved only for those who are ready to comprehend the true meaning and who will use the knowledge to do God’s Will and not just whatever they want. As for those who have “committed sins,” we all have at some time so it applies to everyone.

Stretch Forth your Hands to the Sick

There are three kinds of illnesses: physical, mental, and spiritual. When people are physically sick, they may not be able to practice spiritual development. The same is true for the mentally sick. Most of all, however, those who are spiritually sick will not want to engage in spiritual development or may be engaging in a sort of spiritual development with the wrong kind of spirits. As a popular meme being shared on social media says, demons and devils are spirits too. So to stretch fort our hands to the sick primarily means that we should try to awaken them to the need for spiritual development and to have the proper attitude so they are communicating with Angels, not demons.

Awaken Those Who Sleep

This is similar to the sickness problem. Those who sleep are the ones who have the potential for significant spiritual growth but don’t know it. It would also include those who thing the time for spiritual development is after the death of the physical body. We need to awaken them to the fact that spiritual development needs to be done now and always. It isn’t something you can do for a week or two and then you are done.

“As we gracefully transition from the meditation and visualization practices that unravel the sublime Clear Light of Reality, it is time to gently steer our minds toward the profound philosophical doctrines embedded within the Chikhai Bardo¹. One of the first doctrines we encounter illuminates the intrinsic purity and luminosity of the mind, often referred to as “Rigpa” in Tibetan Buddhism. This state, akin to the vastness of the clear sky unmarred by passing clouds, is the inherent nature of the mind. Recognizing and resting in this nature is key to liberation. We are guided through practices such as sky-gazing, where we allow our minds to merge with the vast openness, experiencing the unobstructed nature of Rigpa, and witnessing the transient nature of phenomena without attachment or aversion. We then delve into the transient nature of life, as vividly portrayed in the Chikhai Bardo. Here, we learn that embracing impermanence opens the heart to the infinite possibilities of each moment and fosters a deep appreciation for the preciousness of human life. Visualizing an ever-flowing river, we internalize the fluidity and transient nature of existence, fostering a deeper acceptance of change and loss.

“At the heart of the Chikhai Bardo’s philosophical wisdom is the teaching of liberation through recognition. The teachings resonate as a call to awaken to our intrinsic purity and to see through the illusions that veil our true selves. Meditating on a rainbow, practitioners explore the transient and ungraspable beauty of phenomena, inviting a non-dualistic perception of reality. The resonance of compassion and the cultivation of Bodhicitta play a significant role in guiding our journey. The melody of altruistic love and intention for enlightenment is enriched and emphasized, leading us through shadows and into the warm embrace of enlightenment.”

-Guide to the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Purity of Mind

Purity of Mind is important for spiritual development. What that means is that we practice thinking in terms of peace, love, tolerance, and joy while pushing away thoughts of anger, jealousy, and violence. There is also the idea of clearing the mind of all thought when engaging in spiritual practices, but that is easier said than done. Learning to avoid negative thinking is the first step.

Sky Gazing

The author of this book may not know what is being hinted at here, but spiritual development doesn’t come from randomly looking at things in the sky. You have to look at the sun in a proper way that is safe (never stare at the sun!) with the idea of eventually seeing beyond the physical sun to the Spiritual Sun. It is the Light from the Spiritual Sun that awakens and develops the spirit and soul.

Transient Nature of Phenomena

One thing materialists fail to grasp is that everything physical is transient. Some things may last only minutes, while others last for billions of years, yet nothing physical is eternal. Only the spiritual is eternal. That is why developing our spiritual Self is so important.

See Through Illusion

There are several levels of illusion (or veils) that we need to see through. Just within the physical realm we see people are distracted from the truth with pleasant things they are told are important when they are not. Trust me when I say that God doesn’t care one bit who wins the football game or the hockey game. We are told that such things are important so we allow ourselves to be distracted away from what is really important. Just on the physical level, the wealthy and powerful want to keep the rest of us distracted from their greedy activities.

Beyond the physical, we need to see the spiritual. It has been veiled from us for a long time, but the veils are now being lifted and slowly some people are awakening to the truth.

Altruistic Love

One other important thing that spiritual students need to develop is altruistic love or the love of all that God has created. It is difficult for some to grasp, but we need to learn that we can love a person even while disliking their behavior. God doesn’t like a lot of the things we do, but because he loves all of us, he can forgive wrong behavior (that doesn’t mean there won’t be a karmic debt to be paid). If you have a pet, sometimes the pet will misbehave by doing something like peeing in the house or chewing on the furniture. We don’t stop loving the pet because it occasionally misbehaves. That is how we must treat all people and all beings.

“Where there is envy and strife, there is an incompleteness; but where there is unity, there is completeness. Since this incompleteness came about because they did not know the father, from the moment when they know the father, incompleteness will cease to exist. As one’s ignorance disappears when one gains knowledge, and as darkness disappears when light appears, so also incompleteness is eliminated by completeness. Certainly, from that moment on, form is no longer manifest but will be dissolved in fusion with unity. Now their works lie scattered. In time unity will make the spaces complete. By means of unity each one will understand himself. By means of knowledge one will purify himself from multiplicity into unity, devouring matter within himself like fire and darkness by light, death by life.

“Certainly, if these things have happened to each one of us, it is fitting for us, surely, to think about all so that the house may be holy and silent for unity. Like people who have moved from a house, if they have some dishes around that are not good, they are broken. Nevertheless, the householder does not suffer a loss but rejoices, for in the place of these defective dishes there are those that are completely perfect. For this is the judgment that has come from above and that has judged every person, a drawn two-edged sword cutting on this side and that. When the word appeared, who is in the heart of those who pronounce it—it was not merely a sound but has become a body—a great disturbance occurred among the dishes, for some were emptied, others filled; some were provided for, others were removed; some were purified, still others were broken. All the spaces were shaken and disturbed for they had no composure nor stability. Error was disturbed, not knowing what she should do. She was troubled, she lamented, she was beside herself because she did not know anything. When knowledge, which is the abolishment of error, approached her with all her emanations, error was empty, since there was nothing in her. Truth appeared; all its emanations recognized it. They greeted the father in truth with a power which is complete and which joins them with 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.”

-Gospel of Truth

Envy and Strife

Envy and strife happen when greed abounds. We see much of this in the world today. The greedy who take far more than they need are considered by most to be heroes instead of sinners, but greed is still one of the seven deadly sins, and in one way or another, karma will catch up with the greedy. At a minimum, we know that those who choose the pleasures of the physical world, will not move on to the spiritual realm when they die.

Ignorance Disappears

Ignorance does disappear when one gains true Knowledge. There are, however, two kinds of ignorance. One can have ignorance of the physical world due to a lack of experience and education. However, even highly educated people regarding the physical realm can be ignorant of the spiritual, which is the worst kind of ignorance as it endangers the immortal Soul.

Purify with Knowledge

With Knowledge and Truth, we become purified, in the sense that we know right from wrong rather than just accepting the opinions of others on what is right and wrong. When we have true Knowledge, we also have universal Love, Love for all beings, love for all that God created. That doesn’t mean that we accept all kinds of horrid behavior, but it does mean that we separate the behavior from the person. Perhaps if more people practice this, we would have less evil behavior in the world. When a lot of people are sending negative thoughts and negative energy towards such people, that energy only makes them worse. If they were sent more love, at least some of them would start to change, and a few be completely changed into the loving beings God intended us to be.

Dishes

When The Word appears, as it has now in the Sun of Righteousness, some “dishes” will be filled, some left empty, some purified, others broken. This is an allegory. Dishes here represent the human spirit and soul. Those who seek and take in The Word found in the Light of the Spiritual Sun will be purified and saved. Those who cling to materialism will not be filled by the Light and will perish as do all material beings. So seek completeness by taking in the Light of the Spiritual Sun, don’t remain incomplete.

“Western civilization and religions are based on the belief that God, or gods, are external, anthropomorphic beings. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans had pantheons full of them. The Jews had Yahweh. Baal was a god worshiped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities, especially that of the Canaanites. There were thought to be many other deities in the ancient Western world, and so when Jesus of Nazareth came along, the idea was taken for granted that God or gods existed outside of human beings and the physical universe. But, as will be explained, that is apparently not what Jesus believed or taught. I think it is safe to say that his teachings were misunderstood because of the cultural conditioning of the age in which he lived. Today, however, a major revolution in our understanding of the universe is occurring, and that is that consciousness, mind, and intelligence do not exist outside of or separate from creation. They are within, or immanent—if you prefer that terminology—and form the ground of being of all that is. John Samuel Hagelin, a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth with a Ph.D. from Harvard in Quantum Physics, has elaborated on such a theory, comparing the unified field, which many scientists believe is what existed before the Big Bang, to the field of pure consciousness known as “Veda,” a Sanskrit word meaning “to know” or “knowledge,” which is described in the ancient religious texts of India called the Vedas.

-Stephen Hawley Martin

Anthropomorphic God

We humans do have a tendency to think of God as being anthropomorphic, which is to say, very much like us. We take the statement that God created us “in His image” the wrong way. It doesn’t mean we look like God, at least on the physical level, it means that God created us by forming an image in His mind. Whenever He does that, the thing becomes real.

Another thing we do is turn the messengers of God into God. We do it with Jesus, Buddha, and other messengers or messiahs who very often stated quite clearly that they were messengers of God, not God Himself.

God Outside of the Physical Universe

Actually, God does exist outside of the physical universe, but to a degree, also exists in the physical universe. Even though the physical universe was created by the Demiurge, the false god, it was created from the original universe of spirit, so it still has some spirit in it, and therefore, has God in it. We need to stop thinking of God as a being in the same sense as a human or a dog or a bear. God is not a being, but all beings together.

Major Revolution of Consciousness

There is a major revolution going on with the understanding of consciousness. Something that most believed was something generated by the physical brain is now understood to exist without the brain, while the brain serves like an antenna or radio receiver to receive information from consciousness. As the quote says, some scientists are now relating consciousness to the unified field believed to have existed before the “big bang” that created the physical universe. This tells us that not only does consciousness exist outside of the brain, it existed long before the brain did. So more accurately, God is all Consciousness, all Truth, all Knowledge.

“My son, my unseen little one now asleep in comfortable darkness, gathering your strength for the coming struggle, may the Great God of Life add His strength to your strength. You will be a great one among men, for you were conceived in love and not in lust.

“Within the guardian of my heart you remain as a wonderful mystery. I am overcome with awe, for within you there is something God inspired. It bestows strange powers upon you, so that at the appointed time you fight for air and light. You will be a man of courage, for such men are born to the fearless and good. Strength and beauty, courage and modesty have mated, that you might be the heir of their gifts. Your heritage was chosen by those who gave you life.

“It is your fate, my son, as a child born of woman, to fight and grasp, to grimly hold onto life as you reach across to this side of the earthly portal. There are dark powers that would drag you back, but you are not for them. O let the Great Light be ever with you, as a watchman’s fire on a lonely road, when the evil powers beset your way.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (Man:29:19-21)

Coming Struggle

This part of the Kolbrin Bible was written thousands of years ago, so the struggle it refers to maybe something already in the past, but the idea applies just as well to the struggle happening now between the forces of Light and Darkness. This is not a struggle, or war, in the conventional sense, with people killing each other. Those of Darkness may kill, but those of Light do not. Instead, we seek to convert those caught up in the lies of the dark one to the knowledge of truth and love.

Great God of Life

There is only one true God and that is the Great God of Life. He is not the God of life and death. Death is not His creation and it is not something He desires. Death comes from the false god, the god of matter. It is only because we are in the world of matter that our physical bodies are subject to pain, disease, and death. It the Spiritual Realm of the Great God of Life, those things don’t exist.

God will give us the strength to stand up to the forces and being of darkness if we follow His will and help in the Great Plan to restore the physical realm back to it’s original state as spirit.

Child Born of Woman

What the writer is saying here is that a person born into the realm of matter must fight and grasp to hold onto life. It is easier for some then for others, but we all struggle is some ways to survive in this realm where there are so many things that can take physical life from us. It isn’t so much that physical life is important, but it is important that we awaken and develop our spiritual faculties while we are in the physical realm. Since that takes time—typically twenty years, or more—we must try to stay alive in this realm as long as possible, but without surrendering to the forces of darkness.

The Great Light

I love this phrase! I can’t think of a better thing to say to a person than “Let the Great Light be ever with you.” Unfortunately, most people have strayed so far from God and Truth that they don’t know what the Great Light is or how to obtain it. We in Cosolargy know that the best source of that Light on Earth is the Spiritual Sun, so we practice a spiritual form of sun gazing to allow that Light into us.

“The strand of DNA in a single cell is six feet, six inches long. That’s a lot of code when you consider that the size of the characters in the code is microscopic. Think of the enormous amount of information packed into it. Moreover, the type of order found in DNA, which is the basis of life, is not simple, symmetric order. It is a highly complex, specified order that might be compared to the notches on a key, which are highly irregular, but also highly specified. They must be so in order to open a particular lock—a kind of specificity does not happen by accident because it is a kind of language. Consider, for example, the arrangement of the letters in this sentence, or for that matter, in this entire book. They did not and could not have happened by accident. You may not agree with what I have written, but you have to admit that putting all these letters together to communicate what I want to tell you must have required at least a minimal degree of intelligence. This kind of premeditated organization is what is found in the DNA and the RNA. Indeed, three things found in the universe that have the property of specificity are 1) human language, 2) computer code, and 3) the information in DNA and RNA. It should go without saying that whenever we see information such as that, there is always an intelligent input that accounts for it, which indicates convincingly that intelligence is behind the origin of life. Nevertheless, after more than 60 years, science teachers in schools and colleges are still teaching their students that matter is all there is. However, not everyone remains in denial, and many today are coming to the realization that the basic premise of Scientific Materialism simply cannot be correct.

“This awakening, which is now gaining speed, began more than 40 years ago. After Click’s discovery, a few brave souls broke from tradition and accepted the fact that there must be some sort of guiding intelligence responsible for the origin of life. I know this from personal experience because I read a book more than forty years ago that put forth that argument. Published in 1975, it refuted the idea that intelligence, consciousness, and awareness came about because of evolution.”

-Stephen Hawley Martin in the book Christ Consciousness

Strand of DNA

As the first sentence of the quote indicates, a single strand of DNA found in one of our cells will stretch to 6.5 feet long when uncoiled, but because it is tightly coiled, it takes up a small fraction of an inch in our cells. What Mr. Martin is telling us is that there is an enormous amount of information stored in a strand of DNA, and that information implies order and intelligence in each cell of our body.

Highly Complex Order

Martin adds that not only is there an order to the information stored in each DNA strand, but it is a complex order. He compares it to the notches in a key. While a plain key may be simple, various combinations of notches can be added to the key so that thousands of different keys can be made, each one capable of opening a different lock. He is saying that DNA works in a similar way. In other words, the strand of DNA in a blood cell is specialized so that when the cell reproduces, it will produce another blood cell, not some other type of cell.

Guiding Intelligence

Martin eventually says that some experts are now saying that this complex arrangement of DNA implies that there is a guiding Intelligence that is responsible for life. This is a reasonable conclusion, but it must be noted that we are still dealing with only the life of the physical body.

Beyond Matter

The quote does not follow on with what I think is a logical conclusion: this Guiding Intelligence had to exist before the physical universe was created. If there was some Intelligence before matter existed, that intelligence had to be spiritual. So what these studied of DNA really prove is that there must be a realm of spirit that existed before the realm of matter and the guiding intelligence of that spiritual realm is what most of us call God.

“These are the hidden sayings that the living Yeshua spoke and Yehuda Toma the twin recorded. And he said, Whoever discovers what these sayings mean will not taste death.

“Yeshua said, Seek and do not stop seeking until you find. When you find, you will be troubled. When you are troubled, you will marvel and rule over all.

“Yeshua said, If your leaders tell you, “Look, the kingdom is in heaven,” then the birds of heaven will precede you. If they say to you, “It’s in the sea,” then the fish will precede you. But the kingdom is inside you and it is outside you. When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty and you are poverty.

“Yeshua said, A person old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and the person will live. For many of the first will be last and become a single one.

“Yeshua said, Know what is in front of your face and what is hidden from you will be disclosed. There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. His students asked him and said to him, Do you want us to fast? How should we pray? Should we give to charity? What diet should we observe?

“Yeshua said, Do not lie and do not do what you hate. All things are disclosed before heaven. There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, nothing covered that will remain undisclosed.

“Yeshua said, Blessings on you who came into being before coming into being. If you become my students and hear my sayings, these stones will serve you. For there are five trees in paradise for you. Summer or winter they do not change and their leaves do not fall. Whoever knows them will not taste death.

-Gospel of Thomas

Will Not Taste Death

Those who awaken and develop their spiritual faculties will gain eternal life, so they will not taste death. Their physical bodies will die, but their spirit and soul will live on.

Seek Until You find

Thomas is talking about spiritual growth and development throughout the above quote, so when he says that Jesus (Yeshua) told him not to stop seeking until you find it, he is talking about seeking a path to spiritual awakening. Thomas is not going to put it in writing, but we in Cosolargy know that Jesus and his apostles did practice spiritual sun-gazing.

Looking for the kingdom

In this case, Thomas is using the word “heaven” to mean the sky. So here Jesus tells him that if they look to the sky for the Kingdom of God, the birds will be there before you. And if you think it is in the sea, the fish will be their first. He then says the Kingdom of God is found inside and outside of us. We don’t just turn inside, as some spiritual teachers advise. We must also look outside, to the cosmos, especially to the Spiritual Sun.

Know Yourself

Many materialists think they know themselves, but when they deny the existence of the spirit, they deny a very important part of what they truly are. But is is more than simply being aware that we have a spiritual Self. We have to awaken that spiritual Self before we can really know ourselves.

Everything Hidden Will be Revealed

When we awaken our spiritual Self, and develop it gradually until we reach the highest levels of consciousness, everything will be revealed because there is no way to keep it secret. At that level, you are in direct contact with the Mind of God so all veils are lifted, and all Truth and Wisdom is revealed.