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The gospel of
Judas
We are living in a remarkable time.
Again ancient scriptures have been found
in the Coptic language of ancient Egypt,
forgotten in the sands of the desert.
The book that is found back now is technically
called Codex Tchacos
and contains early scriptures that did not
become part of much later written New
Testament.
The book was partly crumbled into small pieces.
We are so lucky that scholars are patiently
glueing
together the little fragments until the texts are
readable again.
This book "Codex Tchacos" contains
next to the Gospel of Judas
several
other scriptures:
First Apocalypse of James, the
Letter of Peter to Philip,
a fragment of a text called
Book of Allogenes.
A total of 66 pages, 27 for
the Gospel of Judas.
Robert was studying this Gospel of Judas
in 2006 and again in 2010.
The language is Coptic and the book is
apparently
noted down long before 180 AD.
The book seems to be a translation from ancient
Greek.
The theory is that the Greek original is
a hundred years older than this book found in
the desert,
between 20BC and 80AD.
The book is damaged very much and only
with unbelievable skills parts of the book
have been recovered.
From the Gospel of Judas about 90 percent is
recovered!
Hopefully more fragments will be glued together
also of the other writings.
Robert admires the expertise of all the people
involved
in the
reconstruction of the book.
Both the Coptic text and the English
translation are
downloadable from the internet.
The National Geographic publishers have
the
copyright of this long lost book.
They have not given permission to use the text
of the Gospel of Judas for citation, which is a
real pity.
Remarks and
comment
on the Gospel of Judas.
The gospel is about Jesus, but not the New
Testament Jesus.
The Jesus in this Gospel is God the Child, the
Higher Jesus.
There are 13 disciples.
It seems that the thirteenth disciple
is the fullfillment of the other 12.
In the Gospel of Judas we find
a laughing and happy Jesus,
who is
not appreciated by the Twelve disciples.
The atmosphere of secrecy about the revelation
of the message of Jesus
is the
same as we find in the Gospel of Mark:
"And
he straitly charged them
that
they should not make him known" (
Jesus takes disciples aside
to give them more knowledge.
Not every revelation of the truth is for
everybody.
Judas recognizes Jesus the Child
as
coming from the eternal realm of Barbelo
Jesus asks Judas to stand aside,
when Bartelo is mentioned
to give Judas a deeper knowledge and insight
into the eternal realm.
Remarkable in the Gospel of Judas is that
Jesus does not stay not constantly with the disciples.
He appears again and again
to teach them the higher truths.
The followers of the Lower Creation God are
mentioned to
perform Human sacrifice of children and women.
In this Gospel of Judas
Jesus is very critical about his twelve disciples.
There is not a relationship of affection.
Judas is the thirteenth disciple,
He is called the thirteenth, becaude he is the
fullfilment of the Twelve.
Jesus tells them that they are praying to their
God,
which is not his God.
Their God is Jaldabaoth, the lower creation God.
Nobody of them will ever know who Jesus is,
because they have no feeling or knowledge for
the real High One.
Judas Iskarioth stands before Jesus and says,
that he knows that
Jesus is coming from the immortal realm of
Bartelo.
As we know, the knowledge about Bartelo
has been totally skipped from the New
Testament.
Bartelo means God in Four and tells us about
the
Invisible, Most High and Unnamed Divinity.
The Divinity wants to be seen as Father, Mother
and Child,
so God in Four.
God the Child is the Most High Saviour.
God the Mother has names like Sophia, Mary,
Eva.
God the Father is the Most High Father.
Judas has a vision of a heavenly house of which
he could
not guess the size.
The roof is of herbal material,
it seems to be a roof with greens growing on
top.
Jesus tells Judas that no person of mortal
birth
is
worthy to enter this house.
Judas asks about his fate as a follower of the
real Jesus, God the child. Jesus answers, that Judas will be the thirteenth
and after being cursed by the followers of the
lower God,
Judas will come back to rule over the
generation that cursed him.
The Gospel of Judas ends with the delivery of Jesus into the hands of
the lower God.
This is to reveal Jesus as the God the Child and Saviour.
These events are related to the ancient
thinking about
a universe and a creation in several layers.
The followers of the lower God are some kind of universe on their own.
The High Invisible and Unnameable God
lives in a higher Universe called Pleroma.
This is where the real Jesus comes from.
The Gospel of Judas states
that Judas Iskaritoh will be hated by all.
A prophesy is spoken by Jesus the Child,
that indicates a glorious
spiritual ending
on behalf of Judas.
Some verses in the Gospel of Judas have
references to angels serving the
Self-generated, Autogenes,
which reminds directly of Jesus
being served by angels in the desert,
like in the gospel of Mark 1:13.
Also the heavenly realm that no angel has ever
seen,
no thought of the heart ever grasped it,
nor was it ever given a name,
reminds of the letters of Paul,
for example the letters to the Hebrews and to
the Colossians.
We read also about Judas entering the luminous
cloud.
This is the cloud where angels and higher
beings come from.
This cloud is the gateway to
the other dimensions of the followers of the
High Divinity.
Judas was temporarely taken up into heavens.
This also reminds of Paul who was taken up
into the third heaven: 2 Corinthians 12.
The gospel of Judas also gives a story
about
creation and the role of Adamas in the tradition
of the ancient Christian writings.
The real believers are seen as the generation
of Seth.
Seth is the first human child of Adam and Eve.
Kain and Able were children of Eve, but not of
Adam.
Seth is the real heir of the promises given to Eve
and Adam.
In the Old Testament are several verses that
mention the creation in several layers
of completion and grades of divinity.
See my page upon the Goddess in christianity.
Sophia the female aspect of the Highest God is
also mentioned
in this gospel of Judas, but only once.
Her creation of the mortal humans is in many
ancient scriptures seen as a mistake.
So also in this Gospel of Judas.
What is the
importance of all this to us?
It is sure that
recent Christianity
has created a religion
far away from
the original ancient Christian
religion.
This started with the
writing and editing of
the New Testament
around 280 to 350 AD.
See my page How old is the New
Testament?
The eliminating of
the female element in the Divinity
was somehow a main charateristic
in the redesign
of the Christian
religion.
Also the taking away
of all Barbelo knowledge,
which is the
knowledge of the Highest and Unnameable Divinity.
Other characteristics
of the reshaped Chritianity are:
The personality of
Paul was reshaped
to fit into the New
Testament.
The writers of the New
Testament reshaped Paul
into an apostle of
the new faith.
John the Baptist was
remodeled into a harmless monk
preaching in the
desert, murdered by an evil king.
The influence of the
John the Baptist movement must have
been immense, much
more important then we know today.
Now we also know that
Judas Iskarioth was reshaped in the New testament
into a man without
honor or courage.
Now we know that this
was absolutely
not the belief at the time of ancient
Christianity
The same reshaping was
done with Mary the Magdalene,
reshaped from a high
placed person into an evil woman.
See
my page on Mary the Magdalene
It is obvious that something
of great value
has happened in the times of Jesus,
somewhere between
20BC and 80AD,
and these great
happenings were apparently hushed up
by the redesigners of
the New Testament centuries later.
In the Gospel of
Judas we read that the 12 disciples were
furious about this
Higher Jesus.
They called him names
in their hearts.
Jesus said, why are
you furious.
When you are perfect
you would dare to stand in front of me.
Only Judas Iskarioth
dared to stand in front of him.
Jesus also told the
12 disciples that
the believers who
follow these 12 disciples
(disciples of the
lower creation God) are doomed.
(pages 39 and 40 of
the original text).
The disciples being
furious about this Higher Jesus
could give us an explanation,
why the New Testament
editors have erased every
aspect of ancient
Christianity.
Also the destruction
of every church not being in line with the
mainstream of
Christianity could be explained by this anger.
Remarkable times we
are living in.
These ancient
scriptures coming back into our knowledge.
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