The Gospel of Thomas (thoughts)
The Gospel of Thomas is best described as a collection of esoteric wisdom that sits on the fence of Gnosticism. It is fundamentally esoteric because it presents itself as a "book of riddles," opening with the claim that only those who find the secret interpretation of its sayings will escape death. While it was discovered alongside famous Gnostic texts at Nag Hammadi, many scholars argue it lacks the complex "space-age" mythology—such as an evil creator god or cosmic battles—found in true Gnostic systems. Instead, it offers a "Gnostic-lite" or mystical approach, focusing on Gnosis (internal knowledge) as the realization that the Divine Light is not in a distant heaven, but is a present reality already hidden within the seeker.
The incipit (opening line) tells us the text is ciphered text
but it also includes the key to decipher the text:
‘Didymos Judas Thomas’
= ‘Twin’-’Cast’-’Twin’
= ‘Cast IN the Twins’
= ‘Cast (concepts into Reality, anchored) in the Twin Truths’
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The name for the text given at the end of the Coptic text
properly translated should be:
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Ⲡ ⲈⲨⲀⲄⲄⲈⲖⲒⲞⲚ [Greek: εὐαγγέλιον 🔊: evangélion ]
The Gospel
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Ⲡ ⲔⲀⲦⲀ ⲐⲰⲘⲀⲤ
The Concordant Twins (= The Twin Truths)
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Thus, the “Gospel of Thomas” is actually:
‘The Good News —The Concordant Twin Truths’
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Having toiled on the text first hand —- not through “scholars”
i.e. re-translated, re-assembled, re-interpreted
and even re-filled some lacunae (gaps) in the Coptic text
I can confirm that the message
in the re-translated, re-assembled & re-interpreted text
is truly Good News