Gospel of Thomas , coda 9

Gospel of Thomas, coda 9

“Jesus said, ‘Look, there was a man who came out to sow seed.  He filled his hand with seed and threw it about.  Some fell onto the road, and birds ate it.  Some fell onto rocks and could not root and produced no grain.  Some fell into patches of thorny weeds that kept it from growing, and grubs ate it.  Some seed fell upon good soil and grew and produced good grain.  It was 60 units per measure and 120 units of measure. ‘”

According to Tau Malachi, You may be presented with the seed of knowledge and light.  Indeed, it may be sown in your consciousness.  But it is possible that even though you have received a teaching it will not take root in your life and bear fruit.  You may not integrate the teaching in your life.  This is so because receptivity is dependent upon the state of your consciousness, the development of your consciousness.  For the seed to take root in your life, you must prepare your consciousness and consecrate yourself to God, to light, to spirit and to truth.

In the first case, where the seed falls on the road and the birds came and devoured the seed, is the situation where you are confronted by dark and sinister forces or extremely negative influences. The forces are demonic.  They devour and dispel the influences of the teachings that are given.  You might have the wrong motives to seek these teachings, distorted, devious, and negative ulterior motives.  You might want physical, psychological, social, and spiritual power, prestige, gifts or gain.  It may be about ego for you.   You may even act to harm the teacher, disrupt the presentation of the teaching, or cause discord in the spiritual community.  This is due to extreme negativity, negative behavior and karma.

In the second case, where the seed falls on rocky ground and doesn’t take root in the soil and produce fruit, you may disinterested and unreceptive to spiritual teachings.  There may be reasons of grief that you don’t want healing from as you find some perverse sense of guilt.  Or you may be angry or hurt and are unwilling to forgive yourself or some other.  You may be caught up in the world or your ego, and have no desire to believe anything spiritual or divine.  Or you may be attached to certain religious dogmas and confused about God, salvation and enlightenment as well.  You may have preconceptions, preconditions and expectations that leave you unreceptive.  Or you may consider yourself unworthy and incapable of understanding or pursuing the path.  Your consciousness may be dense and dull such that the teaching cannot penetrate your consciousness.  You are blinded or blocked from realizing the truth the teaching is conveying or unable to act upon it.  This has to do with the lack of development of your consciousness. 

In the third case, the seed fell on thorn covered ground that chocked the sprouts from the seeds, suffocated them, or kept them from light and worms or grub came and ate them.   In this case, you have the capacity to receive the teaching, act upon it, and integrate it into your life but you are distracted by the world and lesser desires.  As a result, you don’t nurture and cultivate the seed.  You don’t spend the time to pursue your spiritual practices, learning and discipline.    The result is stagnation and regression in the development of your consciousness.  In this case what you are distracted by may not be intrinsically bad or evil.    It may be even be pleasurable and good in some ways.  But it takes away from what you need to do spiritually.  These are the most common reasons teachings don’t take root and blossom in people’s lives.

In the fourth case, the seed fell on good soil and produced good fruit, in some cases 60 per measure and others 120.  In this case, you have cultivated your consciousness through spiritual practice, study and discipline.  And not only are you receiving the teaching, integrating it into your life, and acting upon it, you are sharing and imparting it to others.  Teachings are not entirely received and integrated until you share and impart them to others.