The Gospel of Thomas

People all are born whole, perfect, complete, but in the course of their upbringing and acculturation they’re halved.

- Every half needs an other half to become whole again. Attracted to each other by Eros (libido) they are looking for their better half, calling it love, but it is selfish love. They’re clinging together in a suffocating hold, preventing each other from changing.

- If one changes, they suit no longer to each other and separate.

- The unchanged one may find a new partner, resembling the former partner and history repeats itself. They will stay together until one of them changes again.

- The changed one finds a new partner too, different from the former one, but again they form a new suffocating whole and there also history repeats itself.

- The changed one may change again and they separate too. And then he/she realizes every relationship in this world being based on mutual dependency, maintained by compromises, give and take, selfish love, an artificial ‘we’, talking in terms of possession about “my” wife, “my” husband and “my” children. needing each other and a mutual imprisonment and constraint and that it has nothing to do with disinterested love.

- Finally he/she takes the way home, back to where he/she came from, back to simplicity and wholeness, for only two whole people can love each other disinterestedly.

This is the meaning of the Gospel of Thomas