THE GOSPEL OF PHILIP: THE 1945 DISCOVERY AT NAG HAMMADI, EGYPT
EDITED WITH COMMENTARIES BY SWAMI TANTRASANGHA

THE GNOSTIC SOCIETY LIBRARY
The Nag Hammadi Library
The Gospel of Philip, Translated by Wesley W. Isenberg

PART I
CH. 1
A Hebrew makes another Hebrew, and such a person is
called "proselyte". But a proselyte does not make another proselyte.
[...] just as they [...] and make others like themselves, while
others simply exist.

CH. 2
The slave seeks only to be free, but he does not hope to acquire the
estate of his master. But the son is not only a son but lays claim to
the inheritance of the father. (The inheritance is the Resurrection
of the body and the Spiritualization of the mind: The same
inheritance and birthright "Esau forsook for a bowl of lentil
porridge". Like the Bible states: "Those who break the fast, must die
the death". The "Son" of Heaven is the Dwij or Rebirth.) Those who
are heirs to the dead are themselves dead, and they inherit the dead.
(All those in a state of physical degeneration were said to be
already dead.) Those who are heirs to what is living are alive, and
they are heirs to both what is living and the dead. The dead are
heirs to nothing. (All Hermetic religions have the same goal of
attaining Physical Genetic Rejuvenation. The dead and dying fail to
attain the Longer and Happier Life of Salvation from Suffering.) For
how can he who is dead inherit? (The Immortal Physical Body, although
capable of Transmutation into other dimensions, is, for the most
part, a thing of THIS world.) If he who is dead inherits what is
living he will not die, but he who is dead will live even more. (We
must be Reborn from degeneration unto Regeneration, and he who
Regenerates will also be MUCH better off, even in the non-physical
Spiritual Dimensions, because Chi is now in the highest chakras,
ready for "liftoff" from the confines of the physical brain, and
begins perception with the Astral Brain, Spirit of Soul. Jesus
said: "Put your treasure where moth and rust doth not corrupt". The
benefits of the Resurrected Body go beyond, into the spiritual world.
When passing out of the body, especially if it is the last such exit
from a body soon to be discarded, if the energy is in the Crown
Chakra of the King, one passes into much preferable experiences in
the Spirit. Most such Reborn people are like the apostle Paul, who
said: "I die daily", meaning he passes out of the body in Soul
Travel, and has familiarized himself with this death experience of
being out-of-the-body. Those who have no such out-of-body-experience
are likely to experience a hellish fear when they die, much like
animals fear strangers and strange places.)

CH. 3
A Gentile does not die, for he has never lived in order that he may
die. (i.e. the living dead.) He who has believed in the truth has
found life, and this one is in danger of dying, for he is alive. (The
Hermetic Truth is all about physical survival, and those who oppose
it have condemned themselves to die, having placed a death sentence
upon themselves.) Since Christ came, the world has been created, the
cities adorned, the dead carried out. When we were Hebrews, we were
orphans and had only our mother, but when we became Christians, we
had both father and mother. (This is uncanny! Jews are traditionally
ascribed not to the father's lineage but the mother's. There is an
interesting joke to explain this, which a Jew once told me: "If you
are a Jewish baby, you are your mother's baby - your
father's...maybe!" Christians, of course, trace their lineage and
name from the father. In Rebirth, unlike Birth, it is undeniable who
is the Rightful Father, for he is the one with New Flesh!)

CH. 4
Those who sow in winter reap in summer. The winter is the world, the
summer the other Aeon (eternal realm). Let us sow in the world that
we may reap in the summer. (We "sow the seed of Genetic Rejuvenation
in the physical body, and, thus, reap Spiritual benefits. Because of
this, it is fitting for us not to pray in the winter. Summer follows
winter. But if any man reap in winter he will not actually reap but
only pluck out, since it will not provide a harvest for such a
person. It is not only [...] that it will [...] come forth, but also
on the Sabbath [...] is barren. (Some sayings are as enigmatic to me
as they are to you, and this is one of them. We decided not to delete
anything. Even if a passage is incomprehensible, we might figure it
out later.)

CH. 5
Christ came to ransom some, to save others, to redeem others. He
ransomed those who were strangers and made them his own. And he set
his own apart, those whom he gave as a pledge according to his plan.
It was not only when he appeared that he voluntarily laid down his
life, but he voluntarily laid down his life from the very day the
world came into being. Then he came first in order to take it, since
it had been given as a pledge. It fell into the hands of robbers and
was taken captive, but he saved it. He redeemed the good people in
the world as well as the evil. (We have been discussing the "thieves
and robbers who stole the world". Kevin Trudeau's book, "Natural
Cures They Don't Want You to Know About", is all about it. Trudeau's
motto, when describing the medical-religious-pharmaceutical business
conglomerate, which would also "close Jesus down", is: "Always
remember, it's always only all about the money!" Like Jesus said: "Ye
cannot serve both God and money". In other words, you should value
your health and longevity much more than any material possessions
money can buy. Since Rasa Tantra or the Marriage Supper is a "natural
cure they don't want you to know about", what the powerful filthy-
rich vested interests do to Naturopathy, they also do to the True
Dharma or Gospel. The Water of Life from the "Tree of Life", is just
another "natural organic herb", albeit the very best one. True
theology is not for fundamentalist fanatics. It is for those who are
careful about what they put into their mouths, lest they degenerate
unto sickness and death.)

CH. 6
Light and Darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of
one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the
good good, nor evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this
reason each one will dissolve into its earliest origin. But those who
are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal. (It is said we
began as Spirits, and later became bodies. That is why the
original "Son" of God, the "eldest", "first-born", "only begotten",
is, in fact the Dwij or Rebirth, which puts our consciousness into
the Spirit.)

CH. 7
Names given to the worldly are very deceptive, for they divert our
thoughts from what is correct to what is incorrect. Thus one who
hears the word "God" does not perceive what is correct, but perceives
what is incorrect. (Remember our discussions about the "name game"
about terms, the concepts of which we do not understand? Paul
Twitchell called this the "Word Illusion", in which we delude
ourselves to believe that words are things. Words are not things, but
are only labels. If we don't undestand what the words mean, we are
only deceiving ourselves like sectarian fundamentalists. The word
ain't the thing, as I have often told you. These misunderstood words
are the proverbial "Battleground of Theology". We recently had such
a "battle", which is found in the same volume containing the Gospel
of Philip.) So also with "the Father" and "the Son" and "the
Holy Spirit" and "life" and "light" and "resurrection" and "the
Church (Ekklesia)" and all the rest - people do not perceive what is
correct but they perceive what is incorrect, unless they have come to
know what is correct. The names which are heard are in the world
[...] deceive. (This is at the core of our teachings! All would be
Hermetic Gnostics if they understood the true concepts or meanings of
the words we use to describe our religion. Since they do not
understand, they become sectarian fundamentalists, arguing about
words they do not understand, much like the "seven blind men" who
each had a small piece of Truth, but none would agree about the Whole
Truth. Being bound by the Five Unrighteous Character Qualities of:
Ignorance, Irrationality, Dishonesty, Arrogance and Hate, the Truth
is blocked, and the devils never get Saved.) If they were in the Aeon
(eternal realm), they would at no time be used as names in the world.
Nor were they set among worldly things. They have an end in the Aeon.
(Soul Travel in an Out-of-Body-Experience, abbreviated by
parapsychologists as OOBE or OBE or NDE, for Near-Death-Experiences,
would help one understand more about God's own Spiritual Nature. Like
Jesus, "the Word made flesh", said: "Adhere not to the letter of the
law, but to the Spirit of the Law". Toss out the bread and wine, and
adapt to the real Sacraments of the Holy Eucharist - your own Genetic
Efflux - the Seed of Regeneration, for as the Bible says about
God: "A seed will serve Him". Without Vidya or Gnosis, the words are
but delusions, empty of anything real, whereby you destroy yourselves
and others with the darkness of irrational self-centered hate,
whereby you are blinded and unable to see the Gnosis of Salvation
offered here.)