Gospel of Thomas Part 4

[Mr Cheese]

Thomas 4 discusses children and Old men
Who do you think the Old man is?
The child?

What does Thomas mean by "And they will become one and the same"?

here is thomas part 4 and commentary

4)

Jesus said,

"The man old in days

will not hesitate to ask

a small child seven days old

about the place of life,

and he will live.
For many who are first will become last,
and they will become one and the same."


.........................

The following quote is from Andrew Phillip Smith's

The Gospel of Thomas, 2003, Ulysses Books:

"Having the male and female exist as two and not being united as one is the
state of being dead.

Biologically, the union of male and female results in

a child, and this is also what happens when we bring the male and female
together esoterically. Instead of the old man who is born of woman, the fallen
Adam, we get a little seven-day-old child, who is living from the Sabbath, the
day of Rest, naked without being ashamed. This new thing is as small and as
precious as a pearl, with as much potential as a mustard seed. If we bring it to
birth within ourselves it will save us. If we don't, it will kill us, since we
shall continue to be dead."

The fact that the seven-day old child remembers

the "place of life", while the man "old in days" has forgotten it, is
reminiscent of the Gnostic myth,

The Hymn of the Pearl, where although you are from another place and your
mission is to eventually return there, shortly after your arrival into this
(foreign) world, you tend to forget where you came from.
.....................

The Place of Life is the Light Land of the Great Life, our Hidden Living Parents
who sent Miryai and Yeshu into the world to call their sleeping Pearls back
home. Who is the knowing baby? The freshly reborn soul bathed in the Ziwa
radiance and Noorah luminosity of Yeshu and Maryam's rituals of election. Those
who know are those who have experienced the inner realities. Freshly born or
well tried, those that know are the Gnostics that beckon the blind to see and
the deaf to hear. Those who seek Life shall find it, those that love the Great
Life shall be embraced by Them, those that walk the Radiant Road of Nazirutha
shall progress into its first degrees where true unity in Amin exist. In the
writings of the Manichaeans another similar saying of Yeshu is recorded and
preserved for us:" "The old men of gray hair will be instructed by little
children; six year-olds will teach sixty year-olds

http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Thomas-Davied-Asia-Israel/dp/1419673459/ref=sr_1_2?\
ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238676173&sr=1-2

Miriyai = Mary Magde
Maryam= The virgin Mary