The Gospel of Thomas – The Wild, Buried, and Beautiful Truth
(Drumroll please… and cue the celestial cymbals crash!)“Let the one who seeks not stop seeking until they find…”
Welcome to the most eye-popping, soul-shaking, mind-bending gospel the powers-that-be tried to bury. Literally. The Gospel of Thomas - this rebel scroll was left out of the Bible, branded heretical, almost lost to history… until the universe said Not today, suppression!
Let’s rewind.
The Origins: Who, What, When?
The Gospel of Thomas was written sometime between 60-140 AD - yes, while the ink was still fresh on the early Christian movement. It’s attributed to Didymos Judas Thomas, a.k.a. “Twin Judas Thomas” - and no, not the betrayer Judas. Thomas is often seen as Jesus’s spiritual twin, and this gospel records 114 secret sayings directly from the mouth of Yeshua (Jesus) - no frills, no fluff, just raw divine mic drops.
Later, those who vibed with this mystical text became known as the Gnostics, seekers of gnosis The Gospel of Thomas – The Wild, Buried, and Beautiful Truth - inner knowing, not just blind faith. They weren’t about building external empires or organized religion. They were about turning inward and waking the hell up.
Suppression, Scandal, and a Shovel
So what happened to this spiritual treasure map?
It got stricken from the canon, labeled heresy, and Church leaders tried to burn every copy to ash. But the mystics were clever. They buried it - quite literally - in the Nag Hammadi desert in Egypt, where it chilled underground for over 1,600 years.
Then in 1945, it was dug up by a farmer (cue Indiana Jones theme song) who found a jar full of ancient manuscripts. Inside? The Gospel of Thomas, dusty but defiant. Ready to spill the divine tea once again.
Let’s Talk Verses That Shake the Soul
Saying 2
“Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All.”
Let that one simmer. This path ain’t always pretty. But it leads to power, transformation, and divine awareness. Rule over the All? Yes, please.
Saying 3
“If those who lead you say to you, ‘See, the kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the sky 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 children of the Living Father.”
Boom. You are not just dust and bones - you are a walking spark of divine light. The sacred isn’t up in the clouds or waiting in some afterlife - it’s within you, around you, and pouring through everything.
Saying 113
“His disciples said to him, ‘When will the kingdom come?’
Jesus said, ‘It will not come by waiting for it.
It will not be a matter of saying "Here it is" or "There it is."
Rather, the kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it.’”
Open your damn eyes, my love. It’s here. It’s always been here.
Saying 5
“Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you.”
Wake up to what’s already in front of your face - the sacred in your breath, in your chaos, in the mirror. Only then do the hidden doors swing open.
Even Luke Got a Glimpse
In Luke 17:21, Jesus echoes this rebel truth:
“The kingdom of God is within you.”
Even the canon couldn’t hide it entirely.
Saying 77
“Jesus said, ‘I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained.
Split a piece of wood; I am there.
Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.’”
Sounds like the entire freakin' universe, doesn’t it?
Unity is the Key, Baby
Saying 22
“When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below… then you will enter the kingdom.”
This is the divine alchemy of unification - the mystical merging of your masculine and feminine, your light and shadow, your divine and human. It’s integration, not escape.
Shadow work? Yup.
Inner child healing? Yup.
Owning your whole damn self? YES.
Know Thyself
Jesus says:
“You are from the light, and to the light you shall return.”
You’re not some lowly worm needing permission to be worthy. You’re stardust and Spirit wrapped in skin. Remember who you are.
As Above, So Below (and the rest…)
“As above, so below. As within, so without. As the universe, so the soul.”
This Hermetic principle (not from Thomas but relevant AF) reminds us: the cosmos mirrors you. You are a reflection of the infinite.
Final Sips of Celestial Truth
The Gospel of Thomas isn’t some dusty historical footnote. It’s a cosmic wake-up call.
It says:
- Stop outsourcing your spirituality.
- Stop waiting for a savior in the sky.
- Dig deep. Know thyself.
- Find the divine in your breath, your shadow, your struggle, your joy.
You, beloved seeker, are already divine.
Already powerful.
Already worthy.
Already home.
Now go lift some wood and split some stone. The kingdom’s been waiting. 😉 😂
Now for some spicy divine commentary to wrap this up like a sacred truth burrito!
A Note from the Margins of Erased History
You ever notice how the second something empowered the individual instead of the institution, it got tossed in the spiritual shredder?
The Gospel of Thomas isn’t alone. So many ancient texts, myths, philosophies, and divine stories - from the Druids to the Babylonians, Sumerians, Essenes, Vedic sages, Egyptian mystics, African cosmologies, Norse runes, and beyond - were either erased, demonized, or rebranded as “pagan,” “evil,” or “primitive.”
Why?
Because when you awaken to your divinity, you stop being controllable. You stop needing a middleman. You stop handing over your power.
And that makes certain systems very nervous.
Let’s Call It What It Is
This isn’t just history - it’s a pattern.
- Burn the scrolls.
- Rebrand the Gods.
- Demonize the Goddess.
- Colonize the myths.
- Silence the Seers.
- Replace the Oracles with authority.
Whole cultures were spiritually gaslit into forgetting who they were, and what they knew. Even today, we’ve got people terrified of tarot cards while praying over a Christmas tree rooted in ancient pagan symbolism. 😂
Newsflash: Everything “else” isn’t the devil - it’s what came before. The real boogeyman? The erasure of truth.
What the Gospel of Thomas Shows Us
It shows us that Jesus or whoever wasn’t gatekeeping. He wasn’t out to build a mega-church.
He wasn’t handing us rules.
He wasn’t handing us dogma.
He was handing us the mirror.
And with it, the ultimate truth:
“Look. Within you. The divine is there. The kingdom is yours. Stop waiting.”
(Sound familiar? It should - it’s the essence of the Philosopher’s Stone.)
That legendary alchemical treasure wasn’t some Harry Potter bauble or literal magic rock.
It was always symbolic. The Stone is the Self, transmuted.
The hidden truth that when you refine your soul through seeking, knowing, uniting opposites, and doing the inner work - you become the gold.
That’s the treasure hidden in plain sight.
That’s the secret certain systems tried to crush.
And THAT is what this gospel - and so many erased texts - were really about.
And THAT is why it had to go.
But guess what?
It didn’t.
It lived.
I'm finishing this cosmic knowledge off like a flame-wielding oracle:
Reclaim the lost. Remember the sacred. Question the narrative. Seek until you find.
Because once you do… EVERYTHING changes.
