Five in a House

Five in a House

Five in a House from the Gospel of Thomas, what does It mean? Verse sixteen in the Gospel of Thomas states that Jesus said, “Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have come to cast upon the world. They do not know that it is dissension which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For there will be five in a house: three will be against two, and two against three, the father against the son, and the son against the father. And they will stand solitary.”

The five in a house represent the five senses (seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and touch). I have mentioned in prior posts that Jesus is the personification of the Power and Wisdom of God.  It is a state of consciousness rather than a physical person that lived on Earth.

The dissension that is cast upon the Earth is created when one awakens. When an individual awakens and enters the consciousness state known as Jesus. The individual in that state receives and understands the power and wisdom of God. The five in a house or the five senses are disrupted, and a sixth sense is unveiled.

The fire, sword, and war

The fire represents the flame or the burning desire for the Word of God. The sword lays waste to all that we formerly knew ourselves to be (the old man). We then experience the battle between the old man and the new man.  Meaning who we were in the sleeping state of Adam, unaware of our power as divine beings, made in the image of God as God. The old man versus the newly awakened man for whom the veil has lifted and who is now experienced a spiritual rebirth.

Conflict erupts within because t upsets what we believe to be true about ourselves and the world.  In the verse above, a house represents man, and consciousness is limited to the five senses.  The dissension must occur for us to rise in our awareness of who we are.  The Father represents God and the son (we are all sons of God).  When one receives the spirit, that power, and wisdom personified as Jesus Christ and believes, they awaken.  They stand in solidarity with God, who is their true self.