The First Seal of the Little Scroll
Key words span both of the sayings which are above and below the first seal.
These highlighted Key Words are nothing hidden, and it will become manifest.
The First Seal opening in the Book of Revelation is "Come and see, Revelation 6:1.
On the First Day of creation Light makes manifest even that which was hidden in darkness.On the first day, like a Thunder, God declares, Let there be Light: and there was Light Genesis 1:3-5.
Is the Lamb opening the seals and revealing that which was hidden? Revelation 5:8-9.
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(6) His disciples questioned him and said to him, "Do you want us to
fast? How shall we pray? Shall we give alms? What diet shall we
observe?"
Jesus said, "Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all
things are plain in the sight of heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being
uncovered."
(7) Jesus said, "Blessed is the lion which becomes man when consumed by
man; and cursed is the man whom the lion consumes, and the lion becomes
man."
(8) And he said, "The man is like a wise fisherman who cast his net
into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of small fish. Among them
the wise fisherman found a fine large fish. He threw all the small fish
back into the sea and chose the large fish without difficulty. Whoever
has ears to hear, let him hear."
(9) Jesus said, "Now the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and
scattered them. Some fell on the road; the birds came and gathered them
up. Others fell on the rock, did not take root in the soil, and did not
produce ears. And others fell on thorns; they choked the seed(s) and
worms ate them. And others fell on the good soil and it produced good
fruit: it bore sixty per measure and a hundred and twenty per measure."
(10) Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world,
and see, I am guarding it until it blazes."
(11) Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will
pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. In the
days when you consumed what is dead, you made it what is alive. When
you come to dwell in the light, what will you do? On the day when you
were one you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?"
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The Second Seal of the Little Scroll
The Key words spanning the Second Seal are you are and were but heaven came into being.
"On the day when you
were one you became two, Thomas 11.
"You are... (and) heaven and earth came into being, Thomas 12. On the Second day
God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let
it divide the waters from the waters," Genesis 1:6-8. Are we the divided waters? Revelation 17:15.
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(12) The disciples said to Jesus, "We know that you
will depart from us. Who is to be our leader?"
Jesus said to them, "Wherever you are, you are to go to James the
righteous, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being."
(13) Jesus said to his disciples, "Compare me to
someone and tell me whom I am like."
Simon Peter said to him, "You are like a righteous
angel."
Matthew said to him, "You are like a wise
philosopher."
Thomas said to him, "Master, my mouth is wholly
incapable of saying whom you are like."
Jesus said, "I am not your master. Because you have drunk, you have
become intoxicated from the bubbling spring which I have measured out."
And he took him and withdrew and told him three things. When Thomas
returned to his companions, they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?"
Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the things which he told me,
you will pick up stones and throw them at me; a fire will come out of
the stones and burn you up."
(14) Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will give rise to sin for
yourselves; and if you pray, you will be condemned; and if you give
alms, you will do harm to your spirits. When you go into any land and
walk about in the districts, if they receive you, eat what they will
set before you, and heal the sick among them. For what goes into your
mouth will not defile you, but that which issues from your mouth - it
is that which will defile you."
(15) Jesus said, "When you see one who was not born of woman, prostrate
yourselves on your faces and worship him. That one is your father."
(16) Jesus said, "Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have
come to cast upon the world. They do not know that it is dissension
which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For
there will be five in a house: three will be against two, and two
against three, the father against the son, and the son against the
father. And they will stand solitary."
(17) Jesus said, "I shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear
has heard and what no hand has touched and what has never occurred to
the human mind."
(18) The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us how our
end will be."
Jesus said, "Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look
for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed
is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end
and will not experience death."
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The Third Seal of the Little Scroll.
The Key thoughts spanning the Third Seal are "Blessed
is he who knows, he will not experience death."
"Blessed
is he who will take his place in the beginning; he... will not experience death, Thomas 18. On this third day God said, "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
Genesis 1:9. What is the place where we do not experience death? It is when like waters, we are gathered together unto one place in Christ who is our beginning. In this place of Paradise we can become acquainted with his words, and we will know we came into being even before we came into
being. We will know our end is where the beginning is, and we will not experience death.
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(19) Jesus said, "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into
being. If you become my disciples and listen to my words, these stones
will minister to you. For there are five trees for you in Paradise
which remain undisturbed summer and winter and whose leaves do not
fall. Whoever becomes acquainted with them will not experience death."
(20) The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what the
kingdom of heaven is like."
He said to them, "It is like a mustard seed. It is the smallest of all
seeds. But when it falls on tilled soil, it produces a great plant and
becomes a shelter for birds of the sky."
(21) Mary said to Jesus, "Whom are your disciples
like?"
He said, "They are like children who have settled in a field which is
not theirs. When the owners of the field come, they will say, 'Let us
have back our field.' They (will) undress in their presence in order to
let them have back their field and to give it back to them. Therefore I
say, if the owner of a house knows that the thief is coming, he will
begin his vigil before he comes and will not let him dig through into
his house of his domain to carry away his goods. You, then, be on your
guard against the world. Arm yourselves with great strength lest the
robbers find a way to come to you, for the difficulty which you expect
will (surely) materialize. Let there be among you a man of
understanding. When the grain ripened, he came quickly with his sickle
in his hand and reaped it. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
(22) Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, "These
infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom."
They said to him, "Shall we then, as children, enter
the kingdom?"
Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the
inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the
same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; and when you
fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and
a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then
will you enter the kingdom."
(23) Jesus said, "I shall choose you, one out of a thousand, and two
out of ten thousand, and they shall stand as a single one."
(24) His disciples said to him, "Show us the place
where you are, since it is necessary for us to seek it."
He said to them, "Whoever has ears, let him hear. There is light within
a man of light, and he lights up the whole world. If he does not shine,
he is darkness."
(25) Jesus said, "Love your brother like your soul,
guard him like the pupil of your eye."
(26) Jesus said, "You see the mote in your brother's eye, but you do
not see the beam in your own eye. When you cast the beam out of your
own eye, then you will see clearly to cast the mote from your brother's
eye."
(27) <Jesus said,> "If you do not fast as regards the world, you
will not find the kingdom. If you do not observe the Sabbath as a
Sabbath, you will not see the father."
(28) Jesus said, "I took my place in the midst of the world, and I
appeared to them in flesh. I found all of them intoxicated; I found
none of them thirsty. And my soul became afflicted for the sons of men,
because they are blind in their hearts and do not have sight; for empty
they came into the world, and empty too they seek to leave the world.
But for the moment they are intoxicated. When they shake off their
wine, then they will repent."
(29) Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, it is
a wonder. But if spirit came into being because of the body, it is a
wonder of wonders. Indeed, I am amazed at how this great wealth has
made its home in this poverty."
(30) Jesus said, "Where there are three gods, they
are gods. Where there are two or one, I am with him."
(31) Jesus said, "No prophet is accepted in his own
village; no physician heals those who know him."
(32) Jesus said, "A city being built on a high
mountain and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden."
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The Fourth Seal of the Little Scroll
The Key thoughts spanning the Fourth Seal are that when we stand in a high
mountain and speak from the housetops then that which was hidden will be revealed.
On the fourth day, God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night," Genesis 1:14. "No one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel, nor
does he put it in a hidden place," Thomas 33. "A city being built on a high
mountain and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden,"Thomas 32. You are that city that cannot be kept hidden.
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(33) Jesus said, "Preach from your housetops that which you will hear
in your ear. For no one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel, nor
does he put it in a hidden place, but rather he sets it on a lampstand
so that everyone who enters and leaves will see its light."
(34) Jesus said, "If a blind man leads a blind man,
they will both fall into a pit."
(35) Jesus said, "It is not possible for anyone to enter the house of a
strong man and take it by force unless he binds his hands; then he will
(be able to) ransack his house."
(36) Jesus said, "Do not be concerned from morning until evening and
from evening until morning about what you will wear."
(37) His disciples said, "When will you become
revealed to us and when shall we see you?"
Jesus said, "When you disrobe without being ashamed and take up your
garments and place them under your feet like little children and tread
on them, then will you see the son of the living one, and you will not
be afraid"
(38) Jesus said, "Many times have you desired to hear these words which
I am saying to you, and you have no one else to hear them from. There
will be days when you will look for me and will not find me."
(39) Jesus said, "The pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of
knowledge (gnosis) and hidden them. They themselves have not entered,
nor have they allowed to enter those who wish to. You, however, be as
wise as serpents and as innocent as doves."
(40) Jesus said, "A grapevine has been planted outside of the father,
but being unsound, it will be pulled up by its roots and destroyed.
(41) Jesus said, "Whoever has something in his hand will receive more,
and whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the little he has."
(42) Jesus said, "Become passers-by."
(43) His disciples said to him, "Who are you, that
you should say these things to us?"
<Jesus said to them,> "You do not realize who I am from what I
say to you, but you have become like the Jews, for they (either) love
the tree and hate its fruit (or) love the fruit and hate the tree."
(44) Jesus said, "Whoever blasphemes against the father will be
forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the son will be forgiven, but
whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven either
on earth or in heaven."
(45) Jesus said, "Grapes are not harvested from thorns, nor are figs
gathered from thistles, for they do not produce fruit. A good man
brings forth good from his storehouse; an evil man brings forth evil
things from his evil storehouse, which is in his heart, and says evil
things. For out of the abundance of the heart he brings forth evil
things."
(46) Jesus said, "Among those born of women, from Adam until John the
Baptist, there is no one so superior to John the Baptist that his eyes
should not be lowered (before him). Yet I have said, whichever one of
you comes to be a child will be acquainted with the kingdom and will
become superior to John."
(47) Jesus said, "It is impossible for a man to mount two horses or to
stretch two bows. And it is impossible for a servant to serve two
masters; otherwise, he will honor the one and treat the other
contemptuously. No man drinks old wine and immediately desires to drink
new wine. And new wine is not put into old wineskins, lest they burst;
nor is old wine put into a new wineskin, lest it spoil it. An old patch
is not sewn onto a new garment, because a tear would result."
(48) Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in this one house,
they will say to the mountain, 'Move Away,' and it will move away."
(49) Jesus said, "Blessed are the solitary and elect, for you will find
the kingdom. For you are from it, and to it you will return."
(50) Jesus said, "If they say to you, 'Where did you come from?', say
to them, 'We came from the light, the place where the light came into
being on its own accord and established itself and became manifest
through their image.' If they say to you, 'Is it you?', say, 'We are
its children, we are the elect of the living father.' If they ask you,
'What is the sign of your father in you?', say to them, 'It is movement
and repose.'"
(51) His disciples said to him, "When will the repose of the dead
come about, and when will the new world come?"
He said to them, "What you look forward to has
already come, but you do not recognize it."
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The Fifth Seal of the Little Scroll.
The Key thoughts spanning the Fifth Seal are that those who are the dead are still looking forward to the prophesied "promise" of life that has already come, because they have not recognized it even in the living one already in their presence.
"When will the repose of the dead
come about? On the Fifth Day God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly (every living creature,) the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven," Genesis 1:20
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