Yehoshua Offers Us Each a Choice of Salvation

Throughout the texts of the Nag Hammadi Library, Yehoshua appears not primarily as a sacrificial redeemer from external sin, but rather as a revealer of hidden knowledge, a living voice that calls humanity back to its origin. Across these writings, salvation is neither a distant reward granted after death nor a transactional atonement, but the restoration of being reawakened to the light of the spark of Divinity which is our truest nature, inseparable from the Father. This awakening is presented as an intimate, personal choice offered to each soul: to remember, to bring forth what is already within, or to remain in the sleep of forgetfulness amid the material world.

This is the Truth of the Ministry of Yehoshua and it is this very truth, so simple and yet so capable of bringing down an Empire. The simple Truth of The Way which reveals the fallacy that once was the power of the Sadducees and the Pharisees, and even the modern day machinations who are convinced only they know the truth…. Truth based on lies, pagan gods in their pious ignorance. This is the Truth that would for Yehoshua; end in mortal death upon that ruggedly hewn tree. This is the same truth which threatened the powers of control and submission that would end in the murders of 11 of the 12 real Tamim (disciples); were must clearly denounce the heretic “Paul” who so clearly diverged from the message of Yehoshua “Simon/Peter” imparted upon him. Yet “Paul” almost completely missing the message of Yehoshua is real architect of the Christ Movement and all it’s following folly from the Church of Rome right down to and through each and every post-reformational iterations.

The Gospel of Thomas opens this invitation with stark clarity. Yehoshua declares that the kingdom is neither in the sky nor in the sea, but “inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father.” Knowledge of the self is knowledge of the divine source. The light is not foreign; it is native. “There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world. If he does not shine, he is darkness.” Elsewhere he states, “If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you will kill you.” The spark of Divinity is already present—the concealed light of the Father’s image within the visible form. To bring it forth is salvation; to leave it buried is to remain divided and darkened. Yehoshua does not implant a new nature; he awakens recognition of the one that has always been.

This same light is the thread running through the Apocryphon of John. There Yehoshua, appearing as Savior (returning those in the dark to the Truth of the Light, discloses the cosmic drama in which a spark of the higher realm, light-filled Epinoia, the thought of the Invisible Spirit… our individual spark of the greater divinity of our Father, was placed within humanity. The material powers and the counterfeit spirit (false god, Yaldabaoth; The Demiurge) seeks to keep the individual soul in forgetfulness, bound tocccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccthe body and the cycles of ignorance and illusion of the Demiurge and his chaotic influencers, the archons, Yet the Savior’s role is to rouse the sleeper:

“Anyone who hears, rise up from your deep sleep!” He identifies himself as the remembrance of the Pleroma, the pure light that descends to liberate. Those upon whom the true Spirit of Life in Hebrew known as Rauch Ha’ Chodesh or Holy Spirit) descends expunge the passions that obscure the spark, become perfect, and attain the pure light. Salvation is the soul’s recovery of its origin in the Father, the Invisible Spirit whose infinite light no eye can fully behold yet whose image dwells within. The choice is whether to receive that Spirit and remember, or to remain under the artificial spirit that leads astray.

The Gospel of Philip deepens the imagery of restoration through the mystery of the bridal chamber. Separation symbolized by Eve’s departure from Adam brought death; Yehoshua was anointed to come “to repair the separation which was from the beginning and again unite the two.” Those who enter the bridal chamber receive the perfect light and are no longer detained by the powers. “You saw the Spirit, you became spirit. You saw The Anointed through his ministry, you too become anointed. You saw the Father, you shall become Father.” The light received is not an external gift, but rather the clothing of one’s own divine image, rendering the soul invisible to the forces of limitation, illusion and deceit among the lower vibrations. Baptism, chrism, and the bridal chamber are stages of this reawakening: the restoration of unity with the Father from whom the spark never truly departed. Here salvation is not escape from the world so much as the transformation of one’s dwelling within it… the world itself becomes the Aeon for the one who has kindled the inner light.

Across this intentionally hidden in preservation texts which are over 2,000 years old and which have remain unaltered by the whims of the Christ Movement. A text they denounced and punished others for holding, even to death. The Truth of Yehoshua’s ministry is revealed once again… the offer is consistent and personal. Yehoshua does not compel. In the Gospel of Truth he enlightens those who were in darkness because of forgetfulness, yet the response remains free. The Testimony of Truth states simply that when a person comes to know himself and our Father who is over the truth, he will be saved, redeemed… Restored! The choice is whether to seek until one finds, to drink from the living stream that Yehoshua measures out, and thereby become as he is, one in the same with the Father, a true intimate relationship beyond imagination awaits… or does one chose to remain far from the fire and thus far from the kingdom.

This is the restoration Yehoshua offers: not the addition of something absent, but the reawakening to the light of the spark of Divinity that is our truest nature, inseparable from the Father. The Nag Hammadi writings present him as the one who remembers for us until we remember for ourselves, who descends into the place of sleep to call each soul by its true name. The light is already within. The choice is whether to finally crack that clay jar and let it shine.

In love and blessings, walk in his peace and shine,

Pastor Mark