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I Still Ask Where is The Thomas Jesus Life Manuscript?

This much I can say.

My ‘commission’ seems to be that I can make public the ‘lost manuscript’ not as a scholar but as the professional writer and psychologist that I am.

Who gave me this commission? I am not at liberty to tell. I don’t know if there is an authentic papyri because I have not seen what my contacts say they have.

But let us speculate that if such an ancient ms exists, and is translated to show an entirely different picture of the wisdom Jesus than the one the Christianity of Peter and Paul formed, then what does this do today for the Catholic and other Christian churches of the world, in the millions?

Are there not more than a billion believing Christians currently on this earth in the twenty-first century?

• Have you ever wondered why The Christians have always said that you have to believe the things they say by faith? C.G. Jung said in an interview when asked did he believe in God, ‘I don’t believe … I know. He was very old at the time, and with a twinkle and a smile in his face.

Have you ever wondered what faith is?

Faith is absolutely believing in something by suspending your disbelief which is based on reason.

You use reason everyday to cross the street when you have decided there is no car in the road to smash you down. This works for you and all of us. No hand of God reaches down if you make a mistake, right? But in your religion you suspend your natural, God given ability to reason in deciding your religious actions?

It does not make good sense. Supposedly it would be the opposite in which you would use this magnificent talent for reasoning to serve that which is superior to you in wisdom and value, which many call God but can just be labeled Source, a term I like.

It’s not how you call a thing but how you experience its core that counts.

• Would you not use your best, rather than your lesser, to serve ‘that which is greater.’ Is that not worship?

Is not pure reason better than what Christians call faith?

I know a certain professor, but why go on?

What I have chosen to do after years of study and planning is to write an historical novel, a Jesus novel, based on the English manuscript copy given me by a certain professor a few years back to do with what I will.

This Jesus manuscript scholar and his select committee, of which he was the chair, could not publish the discovery of this ancient manuscript with a translation because almost as soon as they saw what must have been thrilling pages, it disappeared!

But they got facsimile photos to translate from.

But they could not make these public because the original had disappeared and thus no scholars or world authorities would believe them!

What do you think would have happened to their careers, suddenly accused of being forgers and fakes?

God must have been playing a trick on them?

We laugh before we must cry.

Here I am with sweaty palms able to reveal little but still able to write the fiction of which I love.

My mission is to write a novel as authentically true to the real living and breathing wisdom teacher called Jesus of Galilee who lived around 2000 years ago and gave us core teachings with which to better live our short lives.

Such teachings can accelerate us into consciousness before we die.

In those Jesus days the Galilee and Judea of the Jews was a constantly violent place within which to live. We have got to realize the context which Jesus lived to understand what he taught.

As a novelist I have the freedom a careful scholar does not have to dramatize a Jesus story perhaps more accurate than what historical Jesus scholars can do because the only reputation I have to protect is that of being a proven writer lots of people want to read.

So you might bear with me, please, if you want to become a follower or observer again living in the real Jesus’ time and on the same roads he traveled, eating the same food, and listening, truly listening to what he had to say.

I don’t offer you bread, said he. I do offer you fire …

Remember what the Christians call ‘The Lord’s Prayer?’

‘Give us this day our daily bread.’

We do not give ourselves our own bread in life. We open ourselves to be fed, don’t we? Sometimes necessarily we are fed by fire when we only want the milder bread.

‘He who is near to me is near to the fire,’ said the real Jesus. Now why didn’t the early Church keep that in their gospels?

Obvious answer?

Well, how do people around you act when you are truly conscious and real?

‘He who is near to me is near to the fire.’

This is the story of someone gifted in an intelligent and religious sense who found it his mission in life to live the truth as he experienced it himself.

Yes, they killed him for it, despite his popularity with the peasants and the poor. Or because of it …

But really, despite what must have been incredible suffering for a few hours he died not early but right on time with half the population.

They did not have in those days of the real Jesus medical and societal protections as strong as ours are today.

Now we can live on average two to three times as long. Yet has that not made most of us ‘spiritually lazy?’

A number of teachers of today, including myself, have despaired with how weak and denying students are.

How do you make the weak strong when the weak are not already strong?

If you cannot teach the survivors, whom can you teach?

There’s worse coming. Why, if it is true that certain forces and people got the new, and perhaps greatest ancient manuscript about Jesus away and hidden again, did they do so?

Why can’t we have this evolutionary chance with us now in our emerging world culture?

Answer?

My lowly answer?

Maybe we have the truths of the manuscript now?

Maybe we don’t need to believe in the manuscript’s authenticity, based on scholars reputations and inventions, and the color and carbon dating of its tattered pages?

The only true authenticity you have in this world is your own integrity in living your experiences and what you get from them.

Ah, how weary I am, and willing at last to give up my burden …

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