Saying 71: Jesus said, "I shall destroy this house, and no one will be able to build it [...]."
Meaning: ‘This house’ refers to the wrong beliefs in a person’s mind; beliefs that the world and the physical body are important. The house is the mind and that which it believes.
Saying 72: A man said to him, "Tell my brothers to divide my father's possessions with me”. He said to him, "O man, who has made me a divider?"
He turned to his disciples and said to them, "I am not a divider, am I?"
Meaning: Jesus was not a divider. God is the undivided and Jesus came from the undivided to unite souls with God. Jesus also saw worldly possessions as a hindrance to the soul. How then could he be a divider?
Saying 73: Jesus said, "The harvest is great but the laborers are few. Beseech the Lord, therefore, to send out laborers to the harvest."
Meaning: ‘The harvest’ was those who were ready to receive the word but there were so few disciples to give it.
Saying 74: He said, "O Lord, there are many around the drinking trough, but there is nothing in the cistern."
Meaning: Jesus was referring to the temples where the Pharisees taught. He was saying that there was nothing of value to the soul there.
Saying 75: Jesus said, "Many are standing at the door, but it is the solitary who will enter the bridal chamber."
Meaning: Many are waiting to receive enlightenment, but only those who have found themselves will receive it.
Saying 76: Jesus said, "The kingdom of the father is like a merchant who had a consignment of merchandise and who discovered a pearl. That merchant was shrewd. He sold the merchandise and bought the pearl alone for himself. You too, seek his unfailing and enduring treasure where no moth comes near to devour and no worm destroys."
Meaning: The pearl that is discovered is the self, your soul It is the treasure that is hidden in the mind, and it is a part of God. It contains all that is good and right. It is your life. Everything else that is therefore in the mind should be disposed of, so that you keep what you have found. The unfailing and enduring treasure is you, a child of God.
Saying 77: Jesus said, "It is I who am the light which is above them all. It is I who am the all. From me did the all come forth, and unto me did the all extend. Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
Meaning: The light is that which removes the darkness; it is the Truth that overcomes all lies and deception; it is the word of God; it is the way.
There is the ‘all’ that is the self (a child of God) and there is the ‘ALL’ that is God. The soul that comes to know itself realises that it is a part of God, a child of God.
With the light that is the knowledge of God, the soul rules over itself and its domain, it reclaims what is its own.
Jesus came forth from the mind of God, that which all souls are a part of. Put simply, everything is a part of God, a part of the whole. Jesus knew this, and only Jesus had the knowledge which was Gods. He was the Life, the Truth and the Way.
Saying 78: Jesus said, "Why have you come out into the desert? To see a reed shaken by the wind? And to see a man clothed in fine garments like your kings and your great men? Upon them are the fine garments, and they are unable to discern the truth."
Meaning: ‘The reed shaken by the wind’ is a reference to the soul whose will is bent to and fro by the world. Those referred to as rich and powerful, are the ones who have everything that is of the world but they cannot see that which is Truth, because they are spiritually blind.
Saying 79: A woman from the crowd said to him, "Blessed are the womb which bore you and the breasts which nourished you."
He said to her, "Blessed are those who have heard the word of the father and have truly kept it. For there will be days when you will say, 'Blessed are the womb which has not conceived and the breasts which have not given milk.'"
Meaning: The woman is saying ‘blessed is the physical body that bore and nourished you’. Jesus is saying ‘blessed are the souls that have come to know themselves and been nourished by the spirit and remain faithful, for the days will come when those who have not come to know themselves and been nourished by the spirit, will curse the physical body and their very existence. They will wish that they hadn’t been born. They will be cursing their parents for bringing them into the world.
Saying 80: Jesus said, "He who has recognized the world has found the body, but he who has found the body is superior to the world."
Meaning: Those who recognise the world see themselves as a physical body but the one who has found the body, is of course the soul, the self, which is superior to that which it has found.