Practicing The Hidden Teachings Of Jesus From The Gospel Of Thomas

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There are words that never made it to your Bible. Whispers attributed to Jesus himself, not of sin and punishment, but of awakening. They were buried in the sands of Egypt for nearly 2,000 years, hidden away in a clay jar near the village of Nagamadi. And when they were found, the world wasn’t ready for what they revealed. These are the hidden teachings, the sayings of Jesus preserved in the Gospel of Thomas. No miracles, no crucifixion, no resurrection, only raw truth, the kind that doesn’t demand belief, but experience. It’s as if the voice of the Nazarene speaks not to the crowds, but directly to your soul, saying, “The kingdom of God is within you, and it is spread out upon the earth, but men do not see it.” This is not religion. This is inner alchemy, the transformation of consciousness. It’s what mystics, sages, and initiates across ages have sought to see what others cannot see. to become what they truly are. In this episode, we will journey beyond the surface of scripture into the mystery beneath the words. We will uncover the hidden wisdom encoded within the Gospel of Thomas. The fragments of an ancient teaching meant not for blind followers, but for awakened seekers. You’ll learn why this gospel was silenced, what its secret messages truly mean, and most importantly, how to practice them in your daily life. Because this isn’t about studying the past. It’s about remembering something deep within you, something timeless. So, are you ready to hear the words that were once forbidden? To walk the path that turns knowledge into illumination? Then listen closely. For as the master said, “He who seeks, let him not cease seeking until he finds.” When he finds, he will be troubled. When he is troubled, he will marvel, and he will reign over all. To understand the hidden teachings of Jesus, we must travel back not to the marble cathedrals or gilded thrones of later Christianity, but to a time before doctrine, before dogma, to a small desert community of mystics who sought not to worship Jesus, but to know what he knew. In 1945, near the dusty cliffs of Nag Hamadi, Egypt, a farmer unearthed a sealed jar buried deep beneath the sands. Inside lay a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts, writings banned and branded heretical by the emerging church over 1,500 years earlier. Among them was the Gospel of Thomas, a series of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. No miracles, no narrative, just words, pure distilled truth, as if spoken in riddles to those ready to understand. These sayings echo something ancient, a wisdom that feels more eastern than western, closer to the teachings of Lasu or the Buddha than to the pulpit sermons we know today. In this gospel, Jesus is not the redeemer of sins, but the revealer of consciousness. His mission isn’t salvation, it’s awakening. Why then was this text hidden? because it challenges everything that power and authority depend upon. The Gospel of Thomas speaks of a direct path to the divine, one that requires no priest, no church, no intermediary. It declares that the kingdom isn’t a future reward or distant paradise, but a living reality within you accessible only through self-nowledge. If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. To the early church, this was dangerous, revolutionary. It stripped away control, dissolving the boundary between the human and the divine. And so, the gospel of Thomas was silenced, labeled heresy, and buried. But truth has a way of surviving, hidden in plain sight. Like embers beneath ash, waiting for breath. Philosophically, this gospel align with what later came to be known as nosis, a Greek word meaning direct knowledge of the divine, not intellectual belief, but experiential realization. To the Gnostic, God was not an external being in the sky, but the radiant core of all existence, the silent center behind your own awareness. And that is the heart of the Gospel of Thomas. Its language is symbolic, often paradoxical, designed to bypass the rational mind and ignite the inner knowing that words cannot reach. Each saying is like a mirror revealing not new information but a deeper reflection of yourself. Over centuries this wisdom faded from memory. But now as consciousness awakens across the world once more these lost words return not as relics of the past but as keys to a new future. Because when you begin to see as Thomas saw, when you realize that what you seek is already within you, you start to understand what Jesus truly meant when he said, “I am the light that is over all things. Split a piece of wood and I am there. Lift up the stone and you will find me there.” This is not metaphor, it’s instruction. And in the next chapter, we’ll explore what it means to practice this hidden wisdom. To live as those who have found the light within. To practice the hidden teachings of Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas. We must first learn how to listen, not with the mind that seeks belief, but with the soul that seeks remembrance. The Gospel of Thomas is not a text to be read once and understood. It is a mirror, a labyrinth, a code designed to awaken something dormant within you. Each saying operates like a seed. When planted in silence and contemplation, it reveals layers of meaning that no theology can contain. Let’s begin with one of its central revelations. The kingdom of God is inside you and it is outside you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will be known and you will realize that you are the sons of the living father. At first, this sounds poetic. But beneath the poetry lies a precise spiritual formula. Jesus is describing an inward path, one that bypasses all external religion. He is saying the kingdom is not a place. It is a state of consciousness. It cannot be entered through rituals or dogma but only through knowing oneself. This is not the self made of ego and memory but the luminous awareness behind it. The part of you that has never been born and will never die. The sons of the living father are not chosen people but awakened beings. Those who have recognized the divine spark within themselves. Now here is where the hidden teaching deepens. Jesus says the kingdom is inside you and outside you. Why both? Because he is describing the great paradox of unity. That inner realization and outer reality are reflections of the same divine source. Once you awaken within the world outside begins to transform. You start to see differently. Every tree, every breath, every person becomes a mirror of the infinite. This is what mystics mean when they say the world is a projection of your consciousness. The Gospel of Thomas anticipates what modern quantum physics and ancient mysticism both affirm that perception shapes reality. When you awaken the divine within, the veil of separation dissolves and you begin to experience life as one seamless presence. Another saying illuminates this. When you make the two one and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, then shall you enter the kingdom. Here Jesus reveals a hidden key integration. We live in duality, light and dark, good and evil, sacred and profane. But to enter the kingdom, the seeker must reconcile these opposites within. The two must become one. It’s not about rejecting the shadow, but about seeing the light within the shadow. In ancient mystery schools, this was the essence of alchemy. turning lead into gold, not by changing metal but by transforming consciousness. The lead is ignorance, division, conflict. The gold is unity, understanding, peace. To make the inner as the outer means to live authentically. To allow your inner truth to shape your outer life. To make the above as the below is to embody spirit in matter, heaven on earth, soul in body. It is a call to sacred wholeness. And this is the true teaching that was hidden. Jesus was not offering salvation through belief. He was offering transformation through awareness. His words were seeds of nosis encoded in paradox meant only for those who could hear with the inner ear. Let him who has ears hear. To the unawwakened, these teachings sound like riddles, but to the one who listens with the heart, they are maps guiding the soul toward the realization of divine unity. Because in the end, the Gospel of Thomas does not ask you to worship Jesus. It invites you to become what he became. When you read the Gospel of Thomas, you begin to realize Jesus wasn’t teaching what to believe. He was teaching how to see. His words weren’t commandments. They were keys. Each saying unlocks a deeper layer of perception. Let’s take one of the most mysterious passages. If your leaders say to you, look, the kingdom is in the sky, then the birds of the sky will precede you, if they say to you, it is in the sea, then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is within you and it is outside you. This is a direct challenge to every form of spiritual dependency. Jesus dismantles the illusion that the divine can be found in some distant heaven, in temples of stone or in the authority of priests. He calls us back to the source, to the immediate living presence of God within. Now, and yet this teaching has always been inconvenient. Systems of power rely on distance, a God that is out there and a humanity that must be guided, ruled, and forgiven. But in the Gospel of Thomas, there is no separation, no mediator. You are both seeker and savior, question and answer, student and Christ. The kingdom is not something you wait for. It is already spread out upon the earth and men do not see it. This saying cuts through centuries of misunderstanding. Heaven is not postponed. It is perceived. The veil that hides it is not in the world. It is in the mind. The purpose of these hidden teachings is to dissolve that veil. Now consider another enigmatic phrase, become passers by. At first glance, it sounds simple, but in its simplicity lies profound liberation. To become a passerby is to live in the world yet not be owned by it. to walk among illusions without being bound by them. Jesus is teaching detachment not as rejection but as freedom innostic understanding. Awakening means remembering that this world is a reflection beautiful sacred but transient. When you identify too deeply with the material, you forget who you truly are. You become lost in form, forgetting the formless source that animates it. But when you become a passer by, you see through the mirage. You live with awareness, compassion, and clarity. Another saying reveals the same truth in different light. Whoever finds the interpretation of these words will not taste death. He is not speaking of physical immortality. He speaks of awakening to the eternal consciousness beyond the cycle of birth and death. The realization that your true essence cannot die because it was never born. This is the hidden heart of the gospel of Thomas. It does not promise you eternity after death. It invites you to realize eternity within life. But this path is not for the faint of heart. True awakening disrupts the comfortable illusions that the ego clings to. It strips away false identities, revealing the raw brilliance of being. That’s why Jesus says, “He who seeks, let him not cease seeking until he finds.” When he finds, he will be troubled. When he is troubled, he will marvel, and he will reign over all. The troubling is the shattering of illusion. the death of who you thought you were. The marveling is the moment of awe when you glimpse the boundless self beyond identity. And to reign over all is not to rule others, but to master the inner kingdom, the domain of your own consciousness. In these teachings, Jesus is less a prophet and more a mystic guide pointing beyond words, beyond form to the direct experience of unity. The gospel of Thomas is not about worshiping the messenger. It is about awakening the message within you. And if this is true, if the kingdom is here now, hidden in plain sight, then the real question becomes, how do we practice it? How do we turn these mystical truths into living experience? That is what we will uncover next. The Gospel of Thomas does not ask for blind faith. It asks for inner work. It is not a creed to be memorized but a path to be lived. To practice its hidden teachings is to turn your attention inward where eternity whispers beneath the noise of thought. Let’s begin with the simplest yet most powerful practice inner silence. Jesus said, “Be passers by.” To live as a passer by means to step back from the constant storm of thoughts, emotions, and identities that pull you into illusion. It means remembering that you are not what passes through your awareness. You are the awareness itself. Practice one, the witnessing presence. Each day, pause for a few minutes of conscious observation. Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and simply watch your thoughts arise and fade. Don’t chase them. Don’t fight them. Just see. This act of witnessing is the key that unlocks self-nowledge. For when you begin to see your thoughts as passing clouds, you realize you are the sky, vast, still, and untouched. And that is where the kingdom within begins to unfold. Practice two. Seeing the light in all things. Jesus said, “I am the light that is over all things. Split a piece of wood and I am there.” To practice this, treat every moment as sacred. As you walk, eat, speak, look for the divine spark within everything and everyone. When you gaze into another’s eyes, recognize the same consciousness that lives in you. This is not poetry. It is a way of seeing that transforms the ordinary into the miraculous. At first, your mind will resist. It will separate, categorize, and judge. But the longer you practice seeing the light in all things, the thinner that veil of separation becomes. Compassion blossoms. The boundaries of I and you begin to fade. This is the awakening of unity consciousness, the kingdom revealed on earth. Practice three, the sacred question. The gospel begins with a challenge. Whoever finds the interpretation of these words will not taste death. To find that interpretation, you must live the question. Choose one saying from the Gospel of Thomas and meditate upon it daily. Do not seek intellectual answers. Instead, carry it with you through the day like a flame in your heart. Ask, “What does this mean in my experience?” Let the insight arise not from thinking, but from direct realization. When the answer comes, it will not be in words, but in being. Practice four, the union of opposites. Remember the saying when you make the two one. This practice is inner alchemy. It means embracing what you reject the shadow, the doubt, the fear and bringing it into the light of awareness. Whenever conflict arises within you, do not choose sides. Instead, breathe into both. Let love hold the paradox until it dissolves. This is how you make the inner as the outer and step into wholeness. These teachings were never meant to remain secrets buried in papyrus. They are living codes meant to be experienced. As you apply them, something subtle begins to shift. You feel a stillness beneath your thoughts. You sense a light behind your eyes. The kingdom ceases to be a metaphor and becomes a living reality. Because the truth of Thomas is this. You are not here to find God. You are here to remember that you never left. The Gospel of Thomas is not a story about the past. It’s a map for the soul’s present journey. It whispers of a truth that religion could not contain. That divinity is not somewhere you must reach. It is what you already are. Across the ages, countless seekers have looked to the heavens for answers, never realizing that the sky they sought was inside their own being. Thomas preserved this message not as doctrine, but as a doorway, a doorway to direct knowing, where the words of Jesus cease to be teachings and become experience. He who drinks from my mouth will become as I am. These are not the words of separation between master and disciple. They are an invitation, an initiation into remembrance. Jesus was never asking to be worshiped. He was showing what is possible when a human being awakens fully to the divine within. To practice the hidden teachings of Thomas is to reclaim your birthright as a conscious creator. To live as awareness itself, unbound by fear, free from illusion. The gospel’s riddles and paradoxes dissolve the walls that keep you from seeing that the kingdom is already here, quietly shimmering beneath every moment of your life. And perhaps that is the greatest secret of all. Salvation is not a future event. It is the unveiling of what has always been. So tonight, when the world grows still, close your eyes. Feel the breath move through you. Ask as Thomas did, “Who am I?” before all names and stories. Wait in the silence, for that is where the living Jesus still speaks. And when you begin to hear him, not in words, but in the stillness of your own soul, you will know why this gospel was hidden and why perhaps it has found you Now. Experience Politics

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