Expanded Table of Contents
Introduction to Acts of Yesu the Saviour, 1
The Acts of Yesu the Saviour our Lord, 3
The Announcement, 3
The search for The Great Incarnation, 4
The dream, 5
The three tests, 6
Instruction to hide, 7
Education in exile, 8
Desert teaching, 8
Suicide of the priests, 9
Harvesting, 11
To Kashmiri, 11
Harvesting, 11
Jammu or Tibet, 12
Magdalene, 12
Yesu teaches Mari, 13
Exhortation to leave, 14
Mari presented for initiation, 15
Mari gets lost, 17
The order of Melchizedek, 17
Mari gets lost, 17
Yesu teaches the begging children, 19
Mari ashamed, 19
Yesu teaches the begging children, 19
In Persia, 21
Mari angers the elders, 24
The Magdalenes , 26
The fears of the Ministers, 28
Dangers of the passions, 28
Introduction to the Mystical Sayings of Yesu, 33
Who recorded the Mystical Sayings?, 33
Who is Judas Thomas?, 33
What is the message of the Mystical Sayings?, 33
Two Yesu movements, 34
Are there other versions of the book available?, 37
Why do some people refer to the Mystical Sayings as the Gospel of Thomas?, 37
Are
there other versions of the book available?, 37
The Mystical Sayings of Yesu, 38
Introduction to the Acts of the Apostle Thomas, 75
Acts of the Apostle Thomas, 77
Apostle Thomas is reluctant to minister in India, 77
The Lord sells the Apostle to Abban, 77
Yesu gives Thomas the money to redeem himself from slavery, 78
The Wedding Feast, 79
Thomas anoints himself, 80
The Maiden Song, 80
The lot of the cup-bearer , 84
The Lord appears to the couple, 85
Thomas prays for the couple who are getting married, 85
The Lord appears to the couple, 85
Concerning the eternal palace, 89
The hungry and destitute need material help, 91
King Gundaphorus receives Wisdom, 94
The Great Invocation, 96
King Gundaphorus and his brother Gad partakes of the Great Mystery and Thomas delivers the sermon to the crowd, 97
Yesu appears to them in the form of a youth, 97
Concerning the serpent, 100
The nature of evil, 101
‘If you are not lifted up you cannot see me...’, 106
The colt, 107
Concerning
the devil
that
took up his abode in the woman, 110
The woman receives the Seal, 114
The Great Invocation, 115
Of the youth that murdered the woman, 116
Raising of the slain woman, 117
Of the captain, DS
Ordination of Xenophon, 126
Of the wild asses, 127
Idol worship, 132
The ass’ sermon, 133
The Confession of Faith, 135
Mygdonia, 136
The two cities, 137
Mygdonia refuses her husband’s sexual advances, 139
Beatitudes, 142
Domestic problems in Charisius’ household, 144
Siphor before king Misdaeus, 149
Thomas before king Misdaeus, 150
Thomas in prison, 151
Song of the Pearl, 152
Charisius blames the gods, 158
Mygdonia receives baptism, 161
Charisius opposes Yesu, 163
Narcia receives the seal, 163
Charisius opposes Yesu, 163
Siphor requests the seal, 168
Thomas speaks on baptism, 168
The wife of Misdaeus, 169
Luzanes the son of Misdaeus, 173
Misdaeus hits Thomas with a chair, 173
Luzanes the son of Misdaeus, 173
Miracles save the Apostle, 175
Luzanes requests ordination, 176
Mnesara is healed, 179
St Thomas performs his last Initiation, 180
The martyrdom of the Apostle, 182
St. Thomas’ last sermon, 186
The Lord’s Prayer, 188
Living according to the parables of the Kingdom, 189
Misdaeus comes to faith, 194
Introduction to the Book of Thomas, 197
The Book of Thomas, 198
Knowledge of self, 198
Students and workers, 199
Thomas asks about the mysteries, 199
Students and workers, 199
Of the inner Fire, 201
Light, 201
Of the inner Fire, 202
Teaching to the athletes of mysticism, 202
Of fellowship, 204
On teaching the wilful blind, 205
On those who remain in darkness, 206
Pearls before swine, 207
Woe to those burning in the fire of the ego, 209
The Sun and the Grapevine, 211
The
warning of reincarnation, 213
Introduction to the Apocalypse of Thomas, 215
Who wrote the book?, 215
Apocalypse of Thomas, 217
The Three Periods, 217
Mystical doctrine of the Way, 221
Introduction
to the Scriptures
of the
Great Awakening, 229
Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita, 231
Style, 231
Message, 232
Yoga, 232
Divine Energies, Forces and Beings, 233
The Story, 234
The Bhagavad Gita, 238
1: Arjuna’s Dilemma, 238
Arjuna’s Delusion, 242
2: The Inner Doctrine, 245
Spiritual courage, 245
Single-minded determination vs Ritual Piety, 251
Essence of Yoga, 253
Jnana Yoga and Cause & Effect Yoga go hand in hand, 259
3: The Secret of Work, 260
Service (Yajna), the Milch-cow of the universe, 261
Annihilating the ego, 264
4: Way of Renunciation with Knowledge, 268
About sin, 269
Knowledge is supreme, 273
5: Yoga of Renunciation, 275
6: Yoga of Meditation, 280
Meditation instruction, 281
Arjuna is concerned about losing out on the pleasures of both worlds, 286
7: Yoga of Spiritual Discernment, 289
Four Types of Humans, 291
Illusion of the three Gunas, 291
More on the yoga of Wisdom, 292
8: The Mystery of Omnipresence, 295
How the yogi gives up the body, 296
On Immortality and how to gain it, 297
Immortality, rebirth and annihilation, 297
9: Kingly Knowledge and the Mystery of Mysteries, 299
The ignorant of this Truth, 301
10: Manifestation of the Absolute, 305
Buddhi Yoga, 306
All mythology of ages point also to God’s energies, 307
11: Vision of the Cosmic Form, 312
All mythology of ages point also to God’s energies, 313
New realization enters after the mystical experience, 314
12: Yoga of Devotion, 319
New realization enters after the mystical experience, 321
13: Creation and the Creator, 322
New realization enters after the mystical experience, 323
Creator described, 324
Creative energy and Uncreate Energy are eternal realities, 325
Loving devotion evolves into higher Knowledge , 326
14: Yoga of the Three Gunas of Nature, 329
15: Yoga of the Supreme Spirit, 333
16: Yoga of division between Divine and Demoniacal qualities, 336
17: Yoga of the Threefold Faith, 341
18: Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation, 345
Threefold division of Buddhi, 348
Three divisions of happiness, 349
Three divisions of resolve (firmness of mind), 349
Fourfold division of labour-duty explained, 350
The harm of egoism, 353
Who
is competent to be taught the Gita?, 355
Introduction to the Tao Teh Ching, 357
The word Tao, 357
The title, 357
The concept Tao, 358
Imitating Tao, 358
Yin and Yang, 358
Are
Yin and Yang related to good and evil?, 360
Tao Teh Ching, 363
1: Knowing Tao, 363
2: Self Cultivation, 364
3: Emanating Peace , 365
4: Non-Existent Source, 366
5: The Value of Hollowness, 366
6: God the Mother, 367
7: Faint Light, 367
8: The Nature of Yielding, 368
9: Practice of Serenity, 368
10: You can do it, 369
11: Servility of Non-being, 370
12: Know your Senses, 370
13: Embracing Shame, 371
14: The Mysteries, 372
15: Masterly Virtue, 372
16: Return to the Essence, 373
17: Attitude of Simplicity, 374
18: Hedonistic circle, 374
19: Innocence, 375
20: Apart from the Crowd, 375
21: Hollow Soul, 376
22: Power of Humility, 377
23: Hollowness and Non-Being, 377
24: Insufferable Preferences, 378
25: Symbol of the Great Origin, 379
26: Graveness of Gravity, 380
27: Skilful Journeying, 380
28: Simply Single, 381
29: Non-Action, 381
30: Moderation of Force, 382
31: Against the use of Force, 383
32: Holy Cycle, 384
33: Values, 384
34: Inherent Perfection, 385
35: Attitude of Benevolence, 386
36: Mystical Light, 386
37: The Way of Authorities, 387
38: On Virtue, 387
39: Basis of Law, 388
40: Movement and Function, 389
41: Similarity in Difference, 390
42: Tao and Change, 390
43: Law of Humility, 391
44: Luxury of Abstinence, 392
45: True Virtue, 392
46: Moderation of Needs, 393
47: Deep Sight, 393
48: Love is the Higher Form of Knowledge, 394
49: Trust in the Mirror, 394
50: Preservation of Vitality, 395
51: Nourishing Attitude, 395
52: Return to the Origin, 396
53: Their moves are known, 396
54: Correcting Views, 397
55: The Mystic Charm, 398
56: Mystic Sense, 398
57: Attitude of Innocence, 399
58: Transformation without Friction, 400
59: Keeping within Tao, 400
60: Remaining Centred, 401
61: Attitude of Humility, 402
62: Working the Tao, 402
63: Service, 403
64: Attend to the Origin, 404
65: Attitude of Innocence, 405
66: Cycle of Humility, 405
67: Thrice Coated Pearl, 406
68: Harmony with Heaven, 407
69: Mystic Attitude, 407
70: Difficult to Know, 408
71: Knowing the Disease, 408
72: Self Respect, 409
73: Flowing Action, 409
74: Delusion of Permanence, 410
75: The Cycle of Greed, 411
76: Abstain from Hardness, 411
77: The Way of Heaven, 412
78: Attitude of Faith, 412
79: Observance of Obligations, 413
80: Independence, 414
81:
Expressing the essence, 414
Introduction to Book of Wisdom, 417
Themes, 418
Sovereign rulers, 418
Karma and Dharma, 419
Central Doctrine, 419
Idolatry, 419
Karma and Dharma, 419
Reincarnation, 420
Godless and Godloving, 420
Book of Wisdom, 421
Life as the self-indulgent see it, 423
Their Error, 426
Compared Destinies, 426
On Spiritual Alliances and its offspring, 428
What true long-life is to be counted as., 430
Judgement day for the God-less, 432
How the Godloving will experience their victory, 434
We are all rulers who must seek Wisdom, 435
Finding Wisdom starts with seeking Wisdom, 437
The author promises to describe Wisdom, 438
The author’s passion for Wisdom, 443
God’s work in human history through Wisdom, 448
The myths of the Great Flood are alluded to., 461
Two examples of how idols can corrupt, 462
Idolatry leads to ignorance of the spiritual, which leads to ignorance of social values, 463
Addressing God, 464
Antithesis of locusts and bronze serpents, 467
Antithesis of frogs and quails, 467
Antithesis of locusts and bronze serpents, 467
Antithesis of hail and manna, 469
Antithesis of darkness and fire, 470
Antithesis of the two nights, 473
Aaron, 475
Threat of annihilation, 475
The Red Sea, 476
Spiritual Fornicators guiltier than material fornicators., 477
A new law of nature., 478
Summary,
478
Introduction to Song of Songs, 479
Collection, 480
Setting, 480
Commentators, 481
Solomon and the girl of Shulam, 481
Commentators, 481
Song of Songs, 483
Six unrelated verses, 496
Devotional Addendum, 499
Divine Liturgy, 501
The Divine
Liturgy of the
Mystery
of Mysteries, 512
Preparatory Prayers For The Mystery Meal, 529
Prayers, 530
Concordance, 535