Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

will not hesitate to ask a little child of
seven days concerning the place of life
— and he shall live. For many who are
first shall become last, {and the last
first}; and they shall become a single
unity. (Gen 2:2-3 17:12, Mt 11:25-26
18:1-6+10-14, Lk 2:21; Mary Anne Evans [‘George
Eliot’], Middlemarch: ‘She could but cast herself,
with a childlike sense of reclining, in the lap of
a divine consciousness which sustained her own’;
Graham Greene, The Third Man: ‘He never grew
up; the world grew up around him, that’s all.’)
5. Yeshua says: Recognize Him who (is)
in front of thy face, and what is hidden
from thee shall be revealed to thee. For
there is nothing concealed which shall
not be manifest, {and nothing buried
that shall not be raised¹}. (Ps 16:8, =Mt
10:26; in his scriptural Traditions the Apostle
Matthias [Ac 1:21-26] relates Christ's logion:
‘Wonder at what is in front of you’— quoted by
Clement of Alexandria, Stromata II.9; cp. also
Jalaloddin Rumi [XIII century Afghanistan], ‘The
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