Mysticism & Gospel of Thomas – No. 95 – The Golden Rule

Verse - The Golden Rule

Jesus: “If you have money, do not lend it at interest, but give it to those from whom you will not get it back.”

Comment

The word is directed against the spirit of mercenary activity that makes people incapable of receiving spiritual goodness and powers. Jesus rejects money as little as he rejects the other means and goods of external life. He only rejects the greedy and fearful attachment to money as an expression of inner poverty and blindness, and also the calculation addiction of the unawakened, which constantly miscalculates and opens the door to desire and need instead of abundance.

Anyone who only thinks about having more and taking becomes poorer, more sterile and less perfect internally - and subsequently also externally. Anyone who, on the other hand, pays attention to having more and giving becomes constantly richer, more creative and more perfect internally - and subsequently also externally. Anyone who lends as if he were giving, anyone who gives without looking at the return, anyone who gives himself with his gifts, causes streams of abundance to flow that otherwise remain hidden. Blessed are the givers; for they are unleashing the divine fullness! They correctly understand the words of Christ, which have been handed down to us through Justin: "To whom God has given more, of him he will also demand more."

Above all, he demands of him the attitude of the Golden Rule, which Christ gave the valid formulation to in the Sermon on the Mount: "Whatever you want people to do to you, do to them." How this is put into practice in daily life and has a beneficial effect is explained in the "Religion of the Sermon on the Mount" and in "The Golden Rule". The Sermon on the Mount and the Gospel of Thomas form the two focal points of practical and at the same time esoteric Christianity.