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Fire
– Lo, here .. there [Jesus] – Gospel of Thomas
[Saying 10] Jesus said:
I have thrown fire on the world.
Look! I watch it
until it blazes.
Stevan Davies’ commentary:
In the context of the Gospel of Thomas, the blazing of the fire
that Jesus has cast will fall on individuals fanning that fire, cast in
the past, into a blaze for themselves.
The fire will not be some world-historical event that will take
place in the indefinite future; it is not some coming day of judgment. Here
the fire may represent Jesus’ words, for it is the sayings of Jesus
that Thomas’s Gospel values most.
In saying 82, Jesus says, “Whoever is near to me is near the
fire. Whoever is far from me
is far from the Kingdom” in a manner that equates the terms “fire”
and “Kingdom.” Here when
he throws fire upon the world we probably should understand that he has
come to reveal knowledge of the Kingdom that is spread out upon the
world.
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BELIEF
VS. KNOWING FIRSTHAND
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MYTH LIST
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1.
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The
phenomenon of EHEs of this age -- ultimately awakening all of us
to the MORE that we are as Human, transforming us one person and
one experience at a time [Rhea A. White] |
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2.
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The
Universe Story [Thomas Berry and
Brian Swimme; Teilhard de Chardin] |
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3.
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The Caterpillar and the
Butterfly, Generation 2! [Elisabet
Sahtouris]
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4.
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The New Isis Myth [Rudolf
Steiner]
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5.
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Reimagining the Center [David
Spangler]
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6.
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The
Ten Thousand Mirrors [Paul H. Ray and
Sherry Ruth Anderson]
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7.
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Incarnational
Spirituality [David
Spangler]
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8.
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Something
along the lines of Limitless Love and Truth's Revelations? [David
Spangler]
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9.
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We
have much more creative control over our lives and so-called
deaths that we ever imagined! [Mellen
Thomas Benedict] |
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10.
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??
[PMH Atwater]
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11.
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The
Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily--an initiatory myth; how about
a global myth on this theme? [Johann W.
von Goethe]
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12.
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The
Gnostics' story so relevant to NOW!
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13.
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The
Cosmic Christ; the Earth Logos; the Sun Being who incarnated
for our sakes and for the Earth [David Spangler; Rudolf Steiner,
...]
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14.
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Oneness
[Rasha; David Spangler; Rudolf
Steiner, etc.]
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15.
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We
are wakening to our innate creative / co-creative powers as
Self-Aware, divine beings [Abraham-Hicks;
Neville; AK Mozumdar; etc.]
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16.
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Ishtar-Tammuz
[suggested by Joan Borysenko in
The Fabric of the Future]
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