The Sabbath
The Sabbath means rest, but it does not mean the seventh day of the week as the churches teach. Verse twenty-seven of the Gospel of Thomas states: “If you do not fast as regards to the world, you will not find the kingdom. If you do not observe the Sabbath as a Sabbath, you will not see the father. Then, verse twenty-eight states: Jesus said, “I took my place in the midst of the world, and I appeared to them in the flesh.
I found all of them intoxicated; I found none of them thirsty, and my soul became afflicted for the sons of men because they are blind in their hearts and do not have sight; for empty they came into the world, and empty too they seek to leave the world. But for the moment, they are intoxicated. When they shake off their wine, they will repent.”
To fast means to shut off your senses to the outside world. Most people believe the Sabbath refers to Saturday, the seventh day of the week. When you have a desire and go within your imagination and see the fulfillment of that desire, you have planted the seed. After you plant the seed, you rest and allow it to grow. You witness the father in action when you see the fruits of your labor (what you have done mentally). Therefore, you rest on the Sabbath, knowing your desires will manifest in time.
Jesus and God are one. Jesus is simply the personification of God’s power and wisdom. God made man in His image; therefore, he is among us as us in the flesh. Man is intoxicated by the things of this world and not thirsty for psychological truth (water), the word of God. When we become thirsty for the word of God and begin to apply the truth of the word, that is symbolized as wine (the application of truth). Repentance is a radical change of attitude.
The High Mountain
Verse thirty-two in the Gospel of Thomas states: Jesus said, “A city being built on a high mountain and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden.” Verse thirty-three states: Jesus said, “Preach from your housetops that which you will hear in your ear. For no one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel, nor does he put it in a hidden place, but rather he sets it on a lampstand so that everyone who enters and leaves will see its light.”
When man builds for himself a city built on a high mountain, which is man’s mind, that is God. When he disciplines the mind, the twelve aspects known as the twelve disciples, he cannot fall, and the truth cannot be hidden. In the state of consciousness, the awakened man personified as Jesus Christ is called to preach the gospel. Man is the lampstand, and all who enter into the presence of the awakened man is witness to the light “Jesus Christ.”