Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

forever. There is empowerment granted
to humans. (The authorities) do not
want him [to recognize] (himself), so
that they will become [masters] over
him. For if there is mankind, there is
[slavery]. (Isa 5:20, Ph 10; ¹Henry David
Thoreau, Walden: ‘The greater part of what my
neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad’,
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle: ‘A
prisoner ... who has risen to that stage of
development where the bad begins to appear the
good.’)
14. Sacrifice began [...], and animals
were offered up to the powers. [...] They
were offered up to them still alive—
they were indeed offered up living. Yet
(when¹) they were offered up, they died.
(But) the human² was offered up dead
to God— and he lived. (¹asyndeton; ²Christ/
Christic)
15. Before the Christ came, there was
no bread in the world as (there had
been) in paradise°, the place where
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