Gnostic Gospel of Thomas

Jesus said: «… When you get to know thyself, then you will be known and you will realize that you are the son of the Living Father…».

The Gospel of Thomas —also called the Coptic Gospel of Thomas or Gnostic Gospel of Thomas— is an apocryphal gospel that contains 114 sayings attributed to Jesus of Nazareth. It has been conserved in a papyrus manuscript in Coptic, discovered in 1945 in the Egyptian locality of Nag Hammadi. Some of the sayings in this gospel resemble the canonical gospels of Mathew, Lucas, and Juan, others were unknown until their discovery.

As opposed to the canonical gospels, Thomas’s gospels do not adopt the structure of a story about the life of Jesus, but contain only sayings (in Greek “lodge”) of Jesus framed in conversations that he maintained with several of his disciples. The authorship of the work is attributed in a brief prologue to Didymus Judas Thomas («dydimus» means 'twin'): "These are the secret words that were pronounced by the Living Jesus and that Didymus Judas Thomas recorded in writing".

It finalizes with the title "The Gospel according to Thomas". "He who shall find the interpretation of these words will not prove death" (logion 1) Why the use of these secret words? In the first parable of the Gospel, man is incited to a quest. «The one that seeks, mustn’t stop searching until he finds, and, when he has found, he will be disturbed, and, having been disturbed, he will be amazed and will reign above All" (logion 2).

Here the quest is encouraged and the confusion in the man upon finding it is exposed, but then his disturbance will be compensated by the answer that explains the mysteries. «Many times you have desired to hear these words that I tell you and you do not have anyone to hear them from» (logion 38).

The hero of these acts is at the same time the confidant and herald of the secret words of Jesus. In chapter 38 of the Acts of Thomas, the apostle is addressed in the following way: «Twin of Christ, apostle of the Highest, and co-initiated in the secret doctrine of Christ, you that have received his purposes and his secret words».

Contents
Gnostic Gospel of Thomas.

Facilitator:
Juan Ruiz
Director of Inkarri Multicultural Association and Pneuma University

Methodology: The workshop will unfold as a retreat, with conferences, analysis and study of the Texts, mediations, and Pneuma Breathwork sessions.
Directed to: People that wish to acquire knowledge of the apocryphal gospels from the vision and experience offered by the PNEUMA system. To those who wish to initiate or continue their formation in PNEUMA, or to those who want to undertake this module as part of their path of personal development.