This book is a Quaker’s commentary on the heretical, long lost, but recently rediscovered Gospel of Thomas, which is an authentic early form of Christianity. It enhances Jesus’ assertions in all 4 canonical gospels that little children belong to the Kingdom of Heaven: they belong because we are spiritual beings, animated by individual shares of the light of life. In Quaker parlance, this is the “inner light.” Thomas’ gospel reinterprets the myth of the Garden of Eden: ejection did not happen to humanity; instead it happens to us individually when as willful, school-age children we dissociate from the inner light and develop multiple personality alters that psychology calls “egos.” As Jesus puts it, “when you are one, you become two, but when you are two, what will you do?”
Hoping to catch the attention of “universalist” Quakers, and spiritually persuaded members of the general public, the front cover informs prospective readers that the introduction and commentary are consistent with a spiritual interpretation of the Quantum Theory of EM Neurodynamics. Don’t be alarmed; aspects of this and other modern ideas are only discussed where they are clearly relevant!
Translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer
