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The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is extra to the canonical gospels in the New Testament of the bible. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library. Scholars speculate that the works were buried and hidden after the declaration of a strict canon of Christian scripture, where any works that were not selected for inclusion in the new testament were ordered to be destroyed. Scholars have proposed dates of composition as early as 60 AD and as late as 250 AD as a collection of sayings of Jesus.

Our Commentary on Verse 019 of Thomas Gospel.

These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.

Gospel of Thomas saying 19 - The pre-existent is blessed, Five trees in paradise.
Jesus said, "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being. If you become my disciples and listen to my words, these stones will minister to you. For there are five trees for you in Paradise which remain undisturbed summer and winter and whose leaves do not fall. Whoever becomes acquainted with them will not experience death."

"Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being”.
We and all things are eternaly known within the nondual singularity of Consciousness Absolute. This Absolute has always existed without beginning, and will always exist timelessly. This immortality is our blessing. He, this blessed one that Jesus speaks of, may have desired a worldly experience. That desire would cause his material manifestation or of his coming “into being” from his Absolute being. But, his being had existed before his manifestation, exists now, and will exist after the material form of his manifestation returns to dust. This is his and all our immortal blessing.

“If you become my disciples and listen to my words, these stones will minister to you”
Yes indeed. The whole of existence itself is formed and supported through our divine consciousness Absolute. This existence of absolute knowledge is moved through our desires expressed as needs. All that truly exists is the singularity of Conscious knowledge itself. The universe itself is merely a projection in consciousness. This divine universe and even “these stones” will conform to our desire “will minister to you”.

“For there are five trees for you in Paradise which remain undisturbed summer and winter and whose leaves do not fall”
If Jesus was recruiting five disciples or promising just one person five trees, the meaning is the same. Paradise, heaven, Eden, nirvana, all describe the one thing. The one thing that truly exists is conscious knowledge Absolute. This Consciousness is eternal, timeless and immortal.
Immortal existence is by nature immutable, unchanging. We see change in our living. But our living or life is the experience we originally desired. So, this experience of worldly material change, entropy and decay is provided through the knowledge of all things as consciousness.

Consider a tree. A tree grows through many stages before returning to the earth as dust. Every atom of every leaf, twig, branch is known. Every possible state or combination of all to do with that tree exists timelessly as absolute knowledge. Not only the one tree, but all trees for all time past present and future are known through all possibilities now.
If humanity’s desire was to experience all those states then Absolute Consciousness could support the conscious experiencing of all states through the experiencing of time through to the end of time for that tree manifestation.

But, the true existence of the knowledge of all possibilities rests as Absolute knowledge alone, eternally unmoving, unchanging.
The unmoving picture of trees that Jesus describes ”which remain undisturbed summer and winter and whose leaves do not fall” indeed exist in unmoving concsiousness absolute. The singularity of existence of Conscious Knowledge Absolute at rest, unmanifest, and existing timelessly.

“Whoever becomes acquainted with them will not experience death."
To achieve the consciousness of the Absolute, to find the way back to God is to be free from the life experiencing of the material world with its experience of birth, desire and death.

All verses of the Thomas Gospel.

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