Extract from "The Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas – Meditations on the Mystical Teachings" From Tau Malachi
Say 3:
Jesus said, "If those who lead you say to you, 'see, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the air will precede you. If they say to you, 'it is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty."
Malkut, the kingdom of Heaven, is within you and all around you --- yet, if you do not know that the kingdom is within you, then you will not see the kingdom outside of you. Such is the nature of reality, this magical display of consciousness. The inside and the outside are not separate but are intimately connected. The reality of your experience is the magical display of your own consciousness. A change in the reality you encounter is an expression of a change in consciousness.
In the world and waking consciousness there are many co-creators of the magical display. There is the individual and the collective creation of this magical display---and the individual, the collective, and the universal consciousness are completely interconnected and interdependent. You alone are not the creator of the reality you experience. Every living being is a unique individual expression of the Life-power, the Holy One of Being, and a co-creator with God of the reality you experience. Nevertheless, when there is a transformation in your own consciousness, there is a proportional and corresponding transformation in the world, in the reality of your experience. In transforming yourself, you transform the world in which you exist. Do you want to change the World? You are the world and the world is you. If you want to change the world, make a change in your own consciousness.
Whether heaven or hell or a world of admixture, it is all a state of mind, a condition of consciousness-being. The kingdom of heaven is not a place, but a spaciousness in consciousness, just as hell is a severe confinement and limitation upon consciousness. There are worlds within worlds and worlds beyond, heavens and hells and spaces in between. All are an expression of consciousness-being, which is the radiant nature of consciousness, and all exist within consciousness.
There are higher, holier worlds than this one. No one can know how many there are. Nor can anyone be certain that any given world of level of consciousness is the same ofro different person, and for a saint, "hell" could be the most intense joy. What is known is that, most of the time, people are toot busy here in this world to notice what is transpiring within it and beyond it, too lost in distraction to know themselves and so realize the wealth of higher and holier worlds that occupy the same space. Most ordinary individuals do not know the creative power that is in them and do not know that they are world and the world is them. In ignorance, they remain bound to lesser gods and shadow lands, and do not know the world of Supernal Light within and all around them.
So many souls are asleep and dreaming strange and fitful dreams. They are asleep and do not know that they are dreaming and so cannot awaken in the dream to transform it. To the awakened ones, the holy ones, it is a sad and sorry sight. It is a vision of sorrow to behold the nightmares created by self-grasping, desire, and fear, and all of the suffering that naturally follows. The awakened ones know the world of Supernal Light here and now, yet they also know how how very real the suffering is of those who remain ignorant and asleep. It is not an issue of personal salvation. No one is perfectly free until everyone is free.
" The first shall be last and the last shall be first" (Mark 10:31). Until the last "wicked" person repents and seeks righteousness, the great transformation of the Second Coming shall not be complete.
The force that binds is the force that will set everyone free. It is the same consciousness-force that manifests as the adversary or the Messiah, as heaven or hell. Enlightenment or un-enlightenment are expressions of the very same consciousness-force, the one Life-power. There is one Divine mind, but two paths. This world stands on the threshold in between. It could go either way at any moment---toward heaven and toward hell---yet salvation is always at hand, the Second Coming ever near, as near as your consciousness-being!
Now listen and hear the World of the Lord. You are free to choose! It could be heaven or it could be hell, but everyone must choose. Within you are the powers of salvation and damnation, the Light and the Darkness. When you are at last transparent, there will only be the Light and Life. That is the certainty of salvation in our Lord. Yet the suffering of damnation is all too real until salvation is attained. You must choose each moment. You must know the creative power that is you and live in remembrance of the Spirit and Truth.
What is is to be attained? Knowing and experiencing yourself as part of the Sacred Unity that is God, here and now. You have always been part of that Sacred Unity, are and always will be part of that Sacred Unity, the Holy One of Being. Never have you been separate from the Unity, the Holy One of Being. Never have you been separate from the Holy One. Union with God is not really an attainment; it is a present reality and truth. You need only remember the Spirit and Truth. You need only awaken and live with this awareness. It is not something you lack, but who and what you most truly are, the son or daughter of the Living God---the child of the Light, the Light of awareness itself?.
Who are lost that they should be found? I tell you, none are lost that they should be found? The one who is lost has never existed, and the one to be found was never born. You are what you are seeking, the bornless Spirit.
This is the good news!
Malkut, the Kingdom, is within you and all around you.
Eternal life is the Truth of your inmost being.
Death has never existed.
You are free.
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