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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 084 of Thomas Gospel.

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

Gospel of Thomas saying 84 - - Our encounter with our pre-existent images.
Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your images which came into being before you, and which neither die not become manifest, how much you will have to bear!"

Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you rejoice”.
We like to look at ourselves in the mirror. The human body is naturally beautiful. The world rejoices at the human form.

“But when you see your images which came into being before you”
But, the image we see is of our body only. We have been told that our material body is not who we truly are. The material body is subject to entropy, decay and death. The image we see in the mirror will die.
Our true being is immortal. That means our true being existed before the birth of this body “came into being before you“ and will exist after the death of this body.

“and which neither die nor become manifest”
Who or what we truly are is immortal. What is immortal is timeless, unchanging, immutable.
What is immortal can never suffer change. The immortal does not become. The immortal has no birth or beginning and can have no end.

“how much you will have to bear!"
What Jesus is bringing into realisation here is how much the truth of our existence itself is beyond our conception. The truth, even if it could be revealed to us in our present form, would be inconceivable to the minds of men, “how much you will have to bear!"

All verses of the Thomas Gospel.

Ohm   peace,   peace,   peace.