“And Jesus spoke again unto the eleven and said, "Grieve not because I go away, for it is best that I should go away.
If I do not go away the Comforter will not come to you.
These things I speak while with you in the flesh, but when the Holy Breath shall come in power, lo,
She will teach you more and more, and bring to you remembrance all the words I have said to you.
There are a multitude of things yet to be said; Things that this age cannot receive because it cannot comprehend.
But, lo, I say, before the great day of the Lord shall come, the Holy Breath will make all mysteries known —
The mysteries of the soul, of life, of death, of immortality, the oneness of man with every other man, and with his God.
Then will the world be led to truth, and man will be truth.
When She has come, the Comforter, She will convince the world of sin, and of truth of what I speak,
And of the rightness of the Judgment of the just; And then the prince of carnal life will be cast out.
And when the Comforter shall come, I need not intercede for you; For you shall stand approved,
And God will know you then as he knows Me.”       
                                                                           

“As earthly paradise moves into its advanced stages, people's inner attitudes towards God will directly affect more and more aspects of daily life. Those whose souls are closer to God will be so much of the same heart that they can communicate without verbalizing their thoughts and feelings. By this stage, contemplation will have become the mode of existence for everyone. God will have given them such highly refined powers of spiritual perception that they can at last see His will directly and perfectly understand what is in the hearts and minds of others.

In its ultimate phase, paradise on earth will be so perfect, so unblemished, that it may be called the Crystal World. All evil and hatred will have been cleansed away. The world will have become the final realization of absolute goodness and love. Completely free from even a hint of sin or impurity, humankind at last will dwell in the heavenly abode longed for through the ages. This is the Crystal World of unity with God.”       
                                                                           

“"Teilhard believed, in trying to unite the concepts of mysticism and evolution, that only when the human race became sufficiently evolved as a whole would it be able to meet the transcendental God. . . .

Like most twentieth century mystical writers Teilhard saw that mysticism must be deeply related to action. The sense of urgency about the need to change the world and the consciousness of the human beings within it is felt by many writers this century. The evolution that is being written about is not perceived by anyone as inevitable. There is also the choice of destruction, which will occur, in the understanding of these writers, if people stay ‘asleep,’ unconscious, ‘not knowing’ in the gnostic sense.”       
                                                                           

“So according to the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus ridiculed those who thought of the "Kingdom of God" in literal terms, as if it were a specific place: "If those who lead you say to you, ‘Look, the Kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds will arrive there before you. If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’" then, he says, the fish will arrive before you. Instead, it is a state of self-discovery:

" . . . Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will realize that you are the sons of the living Father. But if you will now know yourselves, then dwell in poverty, and it is you who are that poverty."

But the disciples, mistaking the "Kingdom" for a future event, persisted in their questioning:His disciples said to him, "When will . . . the new world come? He said to them, "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it.." . . His disciples said to him, "When will the Kingdom come?" (Jesus said,) "It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying ‘Here it is’ or ‘There it is.’ Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."

That "Kingdom," then, symbolizes a state of transformed consciousness:

Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, "These infants being suckled are like those who enter the Kingdom." They said to him, "Shall we, then, as children, enter the kingdom?" Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and female one and the same . . . then you will enter [the Kingdom]."

Yet what the "living Jesus" of Thomas rejects as naïve — the idea that the Kingdom of God is an actual event expected in history — is the notion of the Kingdom that the synoptic gospels of the New Testament most often attribute to Jesus as his teaching. According to Matthew, Luke, and Mark, Jesus proclaimed the coming Kingdom of God, when captives shall gain their freedom, when the diseased shall recover, the oppressed shall be released, and harmony shall prevail over the whole world. Marks says that the disciples expected the Kingdom to come as a cataclysmic event in their own lifetime, since Jesus had said that some of them would live to see "the Kingdom of God come with power." Before his arrest, Mark says, Jesus warned that although "the end is not yet," they must expect it any time. All three gospels insist that the Kingdom will come in the near future (though they also contain many passages indicating that it is here already.) Luke makes Jesus say explicitly "the kingdom of God is within you." Some gnostic Christians, extending that type of interpretation, expected human liberation to occur not through actual events in history, but through internal transformation.”