These are the secret words, which the living Jesus spoke, and Didymus Judas Thomas wrote down.
Elucidation:
There are two reasons why the teachings were secret. The most important is that they go against all vested interests, knock over all holy houses and invalidate all things man consider to be true. The second might be that the disciples, because they did not really understand, considered it somewhat secret. They called Jesus
"the living" only meaning he had risen from the dead (or he had freed himself from the world of shadows)
And he said: He who shall find the interpretation of these words shall not taste of death.
Elucidation:
He who will understand these words and live accordingly shall awaken and reach enlightenment. It is not being literally but rather figuratively dead from which man must rise. Then he will no longer live in time, but in an eternal present, without past or future. That is the meaning of eternal life. Then, old and full of years, he will finally return to the place from which he originated..
Elucidation:
There are two reasons why the teachings were secret. The most important is that they go against all vested interests, knock over all holy houses and invalidate all things man consider to be true. The second might be that the disciples, because they did not really understand, considered it somewhat secret. They called Jesus
"the living" only meaning he had risen from the dead (or he had freed himself from the world of shadows)
And he said: He who shall find the interpretation of these words shall not taste of death.
Elucidation:
He who will understand these words and live accordingly shall awaken and reach enlightenment. It is not being literally but rather figuratively dead from which man must rise. Then he will no longer live in time, but in an eternal present, without past or future. That is the meaning of eternal life. Then, old and full of years, he will finally return to the place from which he originated..