Exploring Gnostic Teachings and Identity

If you saw who you truly were, it would melt your

mind. Within the Gnostic scriptures, specifically the Gospel

of Thomas, Jesus makes a suggestion that may change

everything you think you know about yourself.

In fact, He even alludes to the fact that you might not be able to handle

the truth about who you actually are.

And I know that sounds insane until you actually understand what the ancient

Gnostics believed a human being actually was.

Listen to Logion 84 from my paraphrase of Gospel of Thomas.

In it it says, "The teacher said, 'When you see your reflection, you

are joyful. But when you finally see your true image,

the

ancient being that came before you, which cannot be killed or

born, nor made visible, how will you even bear

it without losing your mind?'"

Read that carefully because Jesus isn't simply asking

you to discover your authentic self.

This isn't philosophical or psychological.

He's contrasting two completely different identities and

beings. The first is the image you can see,

the ego.

Your face, your body, your name, your age, personality, identity

you've spent your whole life constructing.

You look into the mirror and say, "Hey, that's me." But Thomas asks a

terrifying question. What if that isn't you at

all? What if it's only the temporary image

that you're currently

wearing? Because the second image in Logion 84 is

radically different. It exists before you.

It doesn't die, it is not born, and it cannot be

physically seen without help. This idea makes a lot

more sense when you place Thomas beside other Gnostic text.

In the Apocryphon of John, the highest reality is described as an

invisible spirit. Beyond the physical form

and beyond ordinary

human comprehension, humanity ultimately receives a divine

power originating from the rulers of the material

cosmos, and the body belongs to the visible

order. But the light within originates from

somewhere

else entirely. And this is where Logion 84 becomes a key.

The reflection that you see is the constructed self.

The ancient image is the eternal self.

One exists inside time and decay. The

other precedes your appearance inside it and beyond

it. In fact, this may be the very thing

that many people are looking for when

they say they are searching for God.

Might very well be the true being inside us.

Because Logion 84 does not describe seeing your true image

as a peaceful, blissful experience.

In fact, it asks how you could possibly bear it.

Because imagine discovering that the identity you've spent your entire

life

protecting is a complete lie, and that the true

you is something that wasn't born, which is hard for us to

even comprehend. This is where Gospel of Thomas becomes not

self-improvement and not about becoming more spiritual

or constructing a better identity. This is not self-help.

It's about remembering something so ancient that the person you

think you are suddenly vanishes. So tonight when

you look in the mirror, ask yourself, "Who am I looking at?

And if I were to see the true being inside me, would I

even recognize myself or would I drop down and worship it?"

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