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Book of Thomas is generally known in the Church to be the book of the fire of the passions. Throughout the book Yesu styles desires and passions as devouring fire, and contrasts it with the higher Passion and holy Desire styled as Fire which burns away karma and fills the being with Light.

Book of Thomas is thematic where Mystical Sayings of Yesu is not. But this difference aside the two works have much in common. Both works speak in the same style although a common author cannot be postulated. The Church understand the two works to truthfully reflect Yesu our Lord's holy teaching.

Book of Thomas is central to the Church's Sacred Sensuality school of thought. The fire of the passions (desires) is both that which is needed to animate us on the Way to immortality and that which leads us to destruction if the mind  is undisciplined. The passions should not be stamped out or killed, but transformed and made innocent, serving as vehicles on the Way.

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