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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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shall know the end, and he shall not<br />

taste death. (Isa 48:12, Lk 20:38, Jn 1:1-2,<br />

Rev/Ap 22:13, Th 1; T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets: Little<br />

Gidding: ‘<strong>The</strong> end is where we start from’; Jack<br />

Kerouac, Visions <strong>of</strong> Cody: ‘What kind <strong>of</strong> journey is<br />

the life <strong>of</strong> a human being that it has a beginning<br />

but not an end?’)<br />

19. Yeshua says: Blest is he who was<br />

before he came into Being. If you<br />

become Disciples to me and heed my<br />

sayings, these stones shall serve you.<br />

For you have five trees° in paradise,<br />

which in summer are unmoved and in<br />

winter their leaves do not fall—<br />

whoever is acquainted with them shall<br />

not taste death. (the five senses?!; Ps 1:3,<br />

Th 1 18, =Ph 61!, Tr 28)<br />

20. <strong>The</strong> Disciples say to Yeshua: Tell us<br />

what the Sovereignty <strong>of</strong> the Heavens° is<br />

like. || He says to them: It resembles a<br />

mustard seed, smaller than all (other)<br />

seeds— yet when it falls on the tilled<br />

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