Teachings of the Gospel of Thomas

Below are significant teachings from the Gospel of Thomas. Some of them are similar to those from the New Testament, and others are completely new. Enjoy.

· God’s Divine Rule is within you and you are everywhere. When you know yourself, you will be known, and you will understand that we are one.

· There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.

· What goes into your mouth will not defile you; rather, it’s what comes out of your mouth that will reveal you.

· The dead are not alive, and the living will not die.

· Fortunate is the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death.

· When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so the male will not be male and the female will not be female… then you will enter the Kingdom.

· You see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but you do not see the log that is in your own eye. When you take the log out of your own eye, then you will see clearly enough, to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

· I stood in the world and found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty. They came into the world empty, and they seek to leave the world empty. But meanwhile they are drunk. When they shake off their wine, they will open their eyes.

· If a blind person leads a blind person, both of them will fall into a hole.

· The lilies neither toil nor spin.

· When you take your clothes off without guilt, and you put them under your feet like little children and trample them, then you will see the son of the living one and you will not be afraid.

· Be passersby.

· A servant cannot serve two masters.

· Fortunate are those who are alone and chosen, for you will find the Kingdom. For you have come from it, and you will return there again.

· The new world you are looking forward to has come, but you don’t know it.

· You have disregarded the living one who is in your presence, and have spoken of the dead.

· Congratulations to the person who has forgiven and has found life.

· Look to the living One as long as you live. Otherwise, when you die and then try to see the living One, you will be unable to see.

· I am the one who comes from what is whole. I was given from the things of my Father. Therefore, I say that if one is whole, one will be filled with light, but if one is divided, one will be filled with darkness.

· I disclose my mysteries to those who are ready for my mysteries. Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.

· Those who know all, but are lacking in themselves, are completely lacking.

· Seek the treasure that is unfailing, that is enduring, where no moth comes to eat and no worm destroys.

· How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two.

· Seek and you will find.

· When you make the two into one, you will become children of Adam, and when you say, ‘Mountain, move from here’ it will move.

· Whoever drinks from my mouth shall become like me. I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to that person.

· God’s Divine Rule is like a person who had a treasure hidden in his field and did not know it.

· Whoever is living with the living One will not see death.