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 So it is not intended to be a chronicle of Jesus’ life, which shows us that Jesus himself placed less emphasis on his life and more emphasis on his teachings. Thomas stressed what his Lord stressed. And each one of the sayings in his gospel is given to us is a teaching for life, for approaching God, for annihilating evil. It’s a method, a formula for the Path.
-That’s what [[Gnosticism]] is all about. Jesus gave the wisdom sayings. When we study them and follow them and understand them and assimilate them, we are fulfilling Jesus’ command, “Except ye eat the flesh of the son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.”<ref>John 6:53.</ref> The flesh and blood of Jesus Christ is [[gnosis]], is the [[mind of God]], and we have to eat these words. We have to listen to them again and again. They are like mantras. They fall from heaven. They tie us to heaven.
+That’s what [[Gnosticism]] is all about. Jesus gave the wisdom sayings. When we study them and follow them and understand them and assimilate them, we are fulfilling Jesus’ command, “Except ye eat the flesh of the son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.”<ref>John 6:53.</ref> The flesh and blood of Jesus Christ is [[gnosis]], is the mind of God, and we have to eat these words. We have to listen to them again and again. They are like mantras. They fall from heaven. They tie us to heaven.
 This wondrous teaching heals our souls, making us whole because through it we have new knowledge about ourselves, new knowledge about the Path, new knowledge about how Jesus had an ongoing dialogue with his disciples.