JESUS’ TEACHINGS ON NON-DUALITY IN THE
GOSPEL OF THOMAS
“… the time which Jesus tells has come is that for publicly teaching that God and the essential Man are not two separate and distinct entities but share a single identity which must be discovered and acknowledged. The time for knowing that the Being of the world is not plural, is not a duality, has indeed come for knowers of the Gospel. It came twenty centuries ago and has held true to this day for all those who are and have been alive to the knowledge. The time has come. God and man’s essence are one, and this is the paramount knowledge taught by the Gospel, the knowledge that opens the gates of the soul to the transformations of redemption.” (pag. 773 Man, Temple of the Living God, Roberto Pla).
Man, Temple of the Living God
A hidden exegesis of Christ’s religion based on the Gospel of Thomas
Roberto Pla, biographical note
Purpose of the author
Our one and only real purpose in writing this work has been to awaken love for the whole Christ, and when we speak of the whole Christ, we are referring both to the Christ who died for mankind in Jerusalem more than two thousand years ago, love for whom has been encouraged by manifest exegesis since the beginning of the Christian era, and at the same time, to the Christ preexisting and eternal. Although both are one and the same being, if we speak of the whole Christ, we cannot disregard the inseparable Christ who, from the beginning, has lain forgotten, unknown, crucified within every man, and who is only waiting to reveal his immortal, divine presence, invoked by love and faith. Then the true beatitude of his resurrection will arise in every man. (Pag.38)
The purpose of this work is to awaken in some men awareness that the canonical New Testament texts express a dual hermeneutic, and exegesis makes it possible, once one has assimilated a first reading, which we shall call manifest, to undertake a second reading, one that will be more difficult to apprehend, in order to find through it a new meaning which the Christian hagiographers called hidden, or secret. (Pag.28)
The author follows in his Commentaries the 114 Logia of the Gospel of Thomas. The book, 800 pages long and very well documented, has few citations other than the Bible, but these form a rich basis that firmly supports the entire exceedingly interesting construction and interpretation. Thus, the profound meaning of the Christian message, the Good News that Jesus brought and realized, is revealed in many aspects.
For the profound knowledge imparted to become transformative, the author developed a literary stile that is at times complex and/or repetitive, a style that imparts far more than mere information. The translation from the original Spanish is excellent.
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Renewal in the reading of the Gospels”. With examples from the Gospel of Thomas and the work of Robert Pla by Esperanza Borus (05/06/2023).
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