Part I. Elements of Love, Universe
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Read The Gospel of Thomas
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me. You will also declare a thing,And it will be established for you;So light will shine on your ways.
Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?”
Then God said, Remember therefore from where you have fallen; Do you know it, because you were born then, If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you, and I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand,That I may plant the heavens,Lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand.
The likeness of the firmament above the heads of the living creatures was like the color of an awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads and it was like the very heavens in its clarity. And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne,in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down with darkness under His feet, darkness which may even be felt.” And the earth standing out of water and in the water. (All the foundations of the earth are unstable).
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.
When I fixed My limit for it, and set bars and doors, He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, at the boundary of light and darkness. He made darkness His secret place,His canopy around Him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
“Is not the Lord your God with you?
And has He not given you rest on every side?
Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, and your waters above the heavens! Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary;Praise Him in His mighty firmament!
Behold, he stands behind our wall; He is looking through the windows, Gazing through the lattice.
He made a lattice network, with wreaths of chainwork, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers.
In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and you shall raise up the tabernacle according to its pattern which you were shown on the mountain.
“You shall make a veil woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen. It shall be woven with an artistic design of cherubim.The veil shall be a divider for you between the holy place and the Most Holy.
Also he overlaid the cherubim with gold. Then he carved all the walls of the temple all around, both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and the floor of the temple he overlaid with gold, both the inner and outer sanctuaries.
The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
“They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts,“On the day that I make them My jewels and I will spare them As a man spares his own son who serves him.”
Hear, all you peoples!
Listen, O earth, and all that is in it!Let the Lord God be a witness against you,The Lord from His holy temple.
Iron is taken from the earth,And copper is smelted from ore, a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
Your sandals shall be iron and bronze;As your days, so shall your strength be. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
“For behold, the day is coming,Burning like an oven, and the day which is coming shall burn them up,”Says the Lord of hosts, The Lord will strike you with consumption, Its rising is from one end of heaven,And its circuit to the other end; And there is nothing hidden from its heat.
I am the Lord, that is My name;And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images. Behold, the former things have come to pass,And new things I declare;Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
The Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated to the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.”And command the people, saying, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren, Therefore watch yourselves carefully. No man knows what is to be; For he does not know what will happen; So who can tell him when it will occur?
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, for so the Lord said to me, “ I will take My rest, And I will look from My dwelling place like clear heat in sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you.
(The pillars of heaven tremble, And are astonished at His rebuke).
Lift your eyes toward the west, the north, the south, and the east; behold it with your eyes,
And I saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth.“Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.The Lord talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
He casts out His hail like morsels; Who can stand before His cold? He sends out His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow. For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down,My name shall be great among the Gentiles;
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads
Praise Him, you heavens of heavens,And you waters above the heavens!
He sends out His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly. “There is no one like the God of Jeshurun,Who rides the heavens to help you,And in His excellency on the clouds.
Praise the Lord!Praise God in His sanctuary;Praise Him in His mighty firmament!
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Do you know it, because you were born then,Or because the number of you is great you entered the treasury of snow, Or have you seen the treasury of hail, Which I have reserved for the time of trouble, For the day of battle and war?
But as it is written:“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home, a tabernacle that will not be taken down;Not one of its stakes will ever be removed,Nor will any of its cords be broken. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. Violence shall no longer be heard in your land,Neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; But you shall call your walls Salvation, And your gates Praise. You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’— The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul;
There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.
..for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:
TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:
Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his heart,“You will not require an account.” He will not depart from darkness;The flame will dry out his branches,He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked. The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved.
(“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes, for you shall expand to the right and to the left").
But to you who fear My name 'The Sun of Righteousness' shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves. knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
For I am a great King,”Says the Lord of hosts,“And My name is to be feared among the nations.Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.
Praise Him, all His angels;Praise Him, all His hosts! Praise Him, sun and moon;Praise Him, all you stars of light! Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.
But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.
Then I said, “Lord, how long?”
And He answered:“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,The houses are without a man,The land is utterly desolate, And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.”
"I will not let You go unless You bless me!” So she said, We are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
Then God said, Be that as it may, I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning!
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete.
Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.”
"He takes away the first that He may establish the second". By that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all and according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
...‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety. He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name'.
Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.”
Pause and wonder!
….. Now, it came to pass.
Amen, amen I say unto you,
My soul still remembers And sinks within me. This I recall to my mind,Therefore I have hope.
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.
“Now to you I say, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden.
“Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me, I also will declare my opinion.’
Indeed I waited for your words,I listened to your reasonings, while you searched out what to say.I paid close attention to you;
And surely not one of you convinced Job, Or answered his words--Lest you say,‘We have found wisdom’
And try Me now in this,”Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.
Selah!
And he said to her, “Stand at the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’”
(Since his days are determined,The number of his months is with You;You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass).
Read The Gospel of Thomas
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me. You will also declare a thing,And it will be established for you;So light will shine on your ways.
Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?”
Then God said, Remember therefore from where you have fallen; Do you know it, because you were born then, If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you, and I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand,That I may plant the heavens,Lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand.
The likeness of the firmament above the heads of the living creatures was like the color of an awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads and it was like the very heavens in its clarity. And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne,in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down with darkness under His feet, darkness which may even be felt.” And the earth standing out of water and in the water. (All the foundations of the earth are unstable).
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.
When I fixed My limit for it, and set bars and doors, He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, at the boundary of light and darkness. He made darkness His secret place,His canopy around Him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
“Is not the Lord your God with you?
And has He not given you rest on every side?
Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, and your waters above the heavens! Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary;Praise Him in His mighty firmament!
Behold, he stands behind our wall; He is looking through the windows, Gazing through the lattice.
He made a lattice network, with wreaths of chainwork, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers.
In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and you shall raise up the tabernacle according to its pattern which you were shown on the mountain.
“You shall make a veil woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen. It shall be woven with an artistic design of cherubim.The veil shall be a divider for you between the holy place and the Most Holy.
Also he overlaid the cherubim with gold. Then he carved all the walls of the temple all around, both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and the floor of the temple he overlaid with gold, both the inner and outer sanctuaries.
The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
“They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts,“On the day that I make them My jewels and I will spare them As a man spares his own son who serves him.”
Hear, all you peoples!
Listen, O earth, and all that is in it!Let the Lord God be a witness against you,The Lord from His holy temple.
Iron is taken from the earth,And copper is smelted from ore, a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
Your sandals shall be iron and bronze;As your days, so shall your strength be. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
“For behold, the day is coming,Burning like an oven, and the day which is coming shall burn them up,”Says the Lord of hosts, The Lord will strike you with consumption, Its rising is from one end of heaven,And its circuit to the other end; And there is nothing hidden from its heat.
I am the Lord, that is My name;And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images. Behold, the former things have come to pass,And new things I declare;Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
The Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated to the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.”And command the people, saying, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren, Therefore watch yourselves carefully. No man knows what is to be; For he does not know what will happen; So who can tell him when it will occur?
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, for so the Lord said to me, “ I will take My rest, And I will look from My dwelling place like clear heat in sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you.
(The pillars of heaven tremble, And are astonished at His rebuke).
Lift your eyes toward the west, the north, the south, and the east; behold it with your eyes,
And I saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth.“Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.The Lord talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
He casts out His hail like morsels; Who can stand before His cold? He sends out His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow. For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down,My name shall be great among the Gentiles;
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads
Praise Him, you heavens of heavens,And you waters above the heavens!
He sends out His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly. “There is no one like the God of Jeshurun,Who rides the heavens to help you,And in His excellency on the clouds.
Praise the Lord!Praise God in His sanctuary;Praise Him in His mighty firmament!
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Do you know it, because you were born then,Or because the number of you is great you entered the treasury of snow, Or have you seen the treasury of hail, Which I have reserved for the time of trouble, For the day of battle and war?
But as it is written:“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home, a tabernacle that will not be taken down;Not one of its stakes will ever be removed,Nor will any of its cords be broken. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. Violence shall no longer be heard in your land,Neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; But you shall call your walls Salvation, And your gates Praise. You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’— The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul;
There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.
..for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:
TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:
Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his heart,“You will not require an account.” He will not depart from darkness;The flame will dry out his branches,He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked. The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved.
(“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes, for you shall expand to the right and to the left").
But to you who fear My name 'The Sun of Righteousness' shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves. knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
For I am a great King,”Says the Lord of hosts,“And My name is to be feared among the nations.Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.
Praise Him, all His angels;Praise Him, all His hosts! Praise Him, sun and moon;Praise Him, all you stars of light! Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.
But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.
Then I said, “Lord, how long?”
And He answered:“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,The houses are without a man,The land is utterly desolate, And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.”
"I will not let You go unless You bless me!” So she said, We are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
Then God said, Be that as it may, I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning!
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete.
Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.”
"He takes away the first that He may establish the second". By that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all and according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
...‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety. He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name'.
Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.”
Pause and wonder!
….. Now, it came to pass.
Amen, amen I say unto you,
My soul still remembers And sinks within me. This I recall to my mind,Therefore I have hope.
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.
“Now to you I say, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden.
“Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me, I also will declare my opinion.’
Indeed I waited for your words,I listened to your reasonings, while you searched out what to say.I paid close attention to you;
And surely not one of you convinced Job, Or answered his words--Lest you say,‘We have found wisdom’
And try Me now in this,”Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.
Selah!
And he said to her, “Stand at the door of the tent, and if any man comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there any man here?’ you shall say, ‘No.’”
(Since his days are determined,The number of his months is with You;You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass).
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