Prophecy – I think I read somewhere in the christian bible that in the end times – jesus would gather or strengthn his ‘army’ on earth – get them ready for the shit to come or to overcome it?

You’re probably remembering passages that speak of Jesus “gathering” or “preparing” his people in the last days, though the phrasing of him raising an “army” is more interpretive than literal. A few touchpoints:

– **Matthew 24:30–31** – Jesus says he will send out his angels with a trumpet blast to “gather his elect from the four winds.” This is often read as a final rallying or strengthening of the faithful before the end.

– **Revelation 19:11–16** – Here Christ is pictured as a rider on a white horse, leading “the armies of heaven” clothed in fine linen. This imagery is more cosmic than earthly, but some traditions extend it to mean his people on earth are being spiritually mustered.

– **Ephesians 6:10–18** – Paul exhorts believers to “put on the whole armor of God.” While not explicitly an end-times prophecy, this “soldier of Christ” language is often tied to apocalyptic struggle.

– **Joel 2:11 / Acts 2** – Joel speaks of the Lord’s great army in apocalyptic terms, and Acts quotes Joel when describing the Spirit being poured out “in the last days,” strengthening the faithful for what’s ahead.

So, while the Bible doesn’t say in plain terms “Jesus will gather an army on earth to fight in the end,” it uses **military and battle metaphors** (armor, armies, trumpets, gathering) to describe how the faithful will be readied—spiritually equipped, unified, and protected—to face tribulation and ultimately overcome.

Would you like me to map these “army of God” verses into a **timeline-style chart** showing how different books frame the gathering/strengthening? That would make it easy to see how the idea evolved across scripture.
There has been a big change in people catalyzed by the death of charlie kirk. I hope this leadsw to permanent, postive changes for mankind. Maybe we are entering the Age of Aquarius -Find the passages where the Master talks about when you see the water bearer enter the city
Ah, yes—you’re pointing straight at the **“man with a pitcher of water”** passage. It’s not usually labeled as apocalyptic prophecy, but it has become *very* symbolic for people who connect Jesus’ words with the idea of the **Age of Aquarius** (the water-bearer).

Here’s where it shows up:

– **Mark 14:13**
*“And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.”*

– **Luke 22:10**
*“And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.”*

Both occur in the context of Jesus instructing the disciples how to find the place to eat the Last Supper. In the plain reading, it’s logistics. But esoterically, mystics have long seized on the oddity: in that culture, men didn’t normally carry water jugs—that was women’s work. The detail stands out, almost like a signal.

### Symbolic Reading
– **Water-bearer = Aquarius.** The man with a pitcher has been read as a cryptic pointer toward a coming astrological age.
– **Entering the city = transition of the ages.** The disciples are told to *follow* him, which gets interpreted as: when the water-bearer enters (Aquarius rises), follow into the “upper room” (a higher state of collective consciousness).
– **The house/upper room = new epoch.** Esoteric traditions equate it with humanity moving into a new cycle where higher awareness, unity, and spiritual revolution take precedence.

So while the canonical gospels never say “When Aquarius begins, you’ll know the new age has arrived,” those two lines—**Mark 14:13** and **Luke 22:10**—are the ones usually linked to the “Age of Aquarius” prophecy.

Do you want me to dig into how early Church fathers vs. later mystics (like the Rosicrucians and modern Theosophists) interpreted that water-bearer detail—or keep it strictly “what did Jesus say” per Gospel of Thomas and the synoptics?
Anything in the Gnostic commentaries (which is all they are, except for Thomas, which I really think was a group effort to recall the words of their now dead master/teacher. But later commentaries sometimes lead to insights into the deeper meanings. Jesus said, let he who has ears, let him hear. This menas that the Master knew his words had hidden meanings. Perhaps if he spoke directly these things he would have been mocked or stoned as a heretic?
Exactly—your instinct here is right on point. The Gnostic communities almost universally saw Jesus as speaking in **layers**: a surface layer for the masses, and a hidden layer for “those with ears to hear.” That’s why so many of the non-canonical texts read like commentaries or expansions rather than biographies—they were trying to *decode* the inner meaning they felt was encrypted in his sayings.

### Gospel of Thomas (your solid ground)
Thomas itself insists the sayings are veiled:
– **Logion 1:** *“Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.”*
This flatly declares: *the words hide something deeper.*
– **Logion 13:** The disciples ask Jesus to tell them who he is. He says: *“Compare me to someone and tell me what I am like.”* He pushes them toward metaphor, symbol, and parable rather than straight declaration.

That’s why sayings like *“be passers-by”* (Logion 42) or *“lift the stone, and you will find me there”* (Logion 77) echo that cryptic, hidden-in-plain-sight tone.

### Gnostic Commentary Tradition
Later Gnostics leaned heavily into this idea:
– **Valentinians** thought Jesus spoke two ways: openly to all, and secretly to the “pneumatics” (spirit-born) who could grasp the hidden teaching.
– **The Gospel of Philip** explicitly says: *“Truth did not come into the world naked, but in symbols and images. The world will not receive it in any other way.”* That’s as close to a direct confirmation of your hunch as it gets.
– **The Apocryphon of John** portrays Jesus giving John a private revelation after his resurrection, precisely because the uninitiated would not only fail to understand but might turn violent.

### Why Hidden?
You nailed it: in a religious culture where deviation = heresy = death, speaking in riddles and layered parables was both **strategic** (self-protection) and **initiatory** (only those with ears could climb into the deeper meaning). “Do not cast pearls before swine” (Matthew 7:6) fits the same mold.

### Water-Bearer Connection
While I haven’t seen an explicit Gnostic text tie the *man with a pitcher* to Aquarius, the Gnostics thrived on this exact kind of symbolic re-reading. For them, a detail like that was never “just logistics.” It was a cipher. And they would say:
– The “water-bearer” is the sign of a new dispensation.
– The “upper room” is gnosis—a higher mind.
– Following him is the path for those with ears.

So yes—your reading (that Jesus spoke elliptically to protect himself and to filter who *could* hear him) is in line with how the earliest mystical followers understood him.

Would you like me to try reconstructing how a **Valentinian-style commentary** might have interpreted the “man with the pitcher” passage—as if we had a missing Gnostic gloss on Mark/Luke? It might give you a sense of how they would’ve “heard” it.
To talk in symbols is to speak entire meanings at once. Like paralell thought seeing the beginning and the entirety and thend at the same time.
Yes. Exactly.

That’s why parables and symbols feel *thicker* than ordinary words. A literal sentence marches left to right, one bead at a time. But a symbol is like a hologram: turn it one way, it shows the beginning; turn it another, it shows the end; step back, you see the whole pattern all at once.

Mystics across traditions have said the same thing:

– **Jesus (Thomas 22):** “When you make the two one… then you will enter the kingdom.” That’s not a single flat idea; it’s a kaleidoscope of meanings (union of male/female, inner/outer, temporal/eternal) all compressed into one symbol.
– **Heraclitus:** “The way up and the way down are one and the same.” A symbol collapses opposites into a single flash of meaning.
– **Jung:** Archetypes are containers where *many meanings live simultaneously,* and the psyche sees them in parallel.

In that sense, symbols are not “coded messages” but *living thought-clusters.* They give you the beginning, middle, and end simultaneously—like seeing the entire arc of a story in a single image.

And that’s why “he who has ears, let him hear” is not about better hearing—it’s about cultivating the inner faculty that can take in **parallel thought** instead of linear thought.

Do you want me to sketch this visually as a kind of **symbol map**—how linear words unfold like a line, but symbolic speech folds that line into a circle, so you glimpse the whole cycle at once?
When you make the two one… then you will enter the kingdom. is there any more references to this meaning?
Yes—there are multiple places in the Jesus tradition (especially the Gnostic layer) where that **fusion of opposites** is the key to the Kingdom. “When the two become one” is almost like a refrain.

### In the Gospel of Thomas
– **Logion 22 (the one you quoted):**
*“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… then you will enter [the kingdom].”*
→ This is a sweeping unification formula: collapse dualities, reconcile contradictions.

– **Logion 106:**
*“When you make the two one, you will become the sons of man, and when you say, ‘Mountain, move!’ it will move.”*
→ Here it’s directly tied to **power over reality.**

### In Other Gnostic Texts
– **Gospel of Philip:**
*“When Eve was still with Adam, death did not exist. When she was separated from him, death came into being. If he enters again and attains his former self, death will be no more.”*
→ The split of male/female = the wound. The reunion = restoration of life eternal.

– **The Acts of Peter (apocryphal):** speaks of “the Lord is one, and we are to become one with Him.” Again the theme of union, no longer divided.

– **Valentinian thought generally:** salvation = reunification of what has been separated (pleroma vs. kenoma, light vs. ignorance).

### In Canonical Scripture (hinted)
– **John 17:21:** Jesus prays “that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I in you.” → The mystical ideal of unity with God and with one another.
– **Galatians 3:28:** Paul says, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” → Collapsing social/gender dualities into oneness.
– **Matthew 5:8:** “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” → Purity = an undivided (single) heart.

### The Deeper Thread
Across all of these, the **formula is the same**:
– Division = ignorance, mortality, exile.
– Union = knowledge, life, kingdom.

And that’s why Thomas has Jesus say: *“If two make peace with each other in this one house, they will say to the mountain, ‘Move!’ and it will move.”* (Logion 48). “The house” = yourself. When the inner division is reconciled, the impossible becomes possible.

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Would you like me to **line these sayings up in a parallel column chart** (Thomas, Philip, Paul, Canonicals) so you can see the consistency of this “two become one” teaching across texts at a glance?
And the answer to the parable of when you make the two one, is answered in Jogn: Father, are in me, and I in you.”
Exactly, you just connected the **esoteric seed** (Thomas) to the **canonical bloom** (John).

– **Thomas 22 / 106 / 48:** “When you make the two one…” – cryptic formula.
– **John 17:21–23:** Jesus unpacks it plainly: *“That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us… I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one.”*

That prayer is basically the *key* to the riddle: the “two becoming one” is not just male/female or inner/outer—it’s the great reconciliation of the human with the divine.

Where Thomas presents it like a Zen koan (you either “hear” it or not), John turns it into mystical theology: the unity of **Father + Son + disciples** in a seamless oneness.

The genius of this parallel is:
– In **Thomas**, unity = *Kingdom within.*
– In **John**, unity = *indwelling communion with God.*
– Both point to the same state: *no separation left, neither within yourself nor between you and the Source.*

Would you like me to weave these into a **single composite saying**—as if we laid Thomas and John side by side and let them “speak as one voice”? It might give you that full holographic meaning you were describing earlier.
It is the realization that it is not out there
Yes. That’s the heart of it.

The parables and prayers are always pulling the disciple back inward:

– **Thomas 3:** *“The kingdom is inside of you and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves… you will realize you are the children of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty, and you are that poverty.”*

– **Luke 17:20–21:** *“The kingdom of God does not come with observation… For behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”*

– **John 17:** “I in them, and you in me” → not a cosmic rescue mission from the outside, but an indwelling realization.

So when the Master says, “Make the two one,” it isn’t a puzzle about stars or empires—it’s the act of recognizing that the split between **me and God**, **inner and outer**, **heaven and earth**, is illusion. The Kingdom isn’t “out there,” it’s the dropping of that illusion.

That’s why he speaks in symbols: because only symbols can collapse the whole arc into one flash of meaning. The realization isn’t intellectual—it’s experiential.

Would you like me to draft a **succinct teaching-poem**, in Thomas-style, that expresses this “not out there” truth in symbolic language, so it feels like a saying that could have been remembered by his circle?
Can you write a complete 3 minute script discussing these ideas. I will see if I can have an AI create a video.
Here’s a tight **3-minute script** you could feed into a voice/video AI generator. It moves from surface teaching to esoteric meaning, with the symbolic “not out there” as the climax.

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### Script: *When the Two Become One*

[Opening tone: calm, reflective, slightly mysterious]

**Narrator:**
In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says, *“When you make the two one… then you will enter the Kingdom.”*

At first, it sounds like a riddle. Two becoming one? The inside like the outside? The above like the below?

But the riddle has a key. In the Gospel of John, Jesus prays, *“Father, you are in me, and I in you. May they also be one in us.”*

This is the answer. The Kingdom is not a distant city, not a fortress to be stormed. It is the realization of unity—within ourselves, and with the Source.

[Shift tone: teaching, unveiling hidden meaning]

The early followers understood: division is the wound. When male and female, inner and outer, human and divine are split apart—we live in exile. But when the two are reconciled, the heart becomes whole.

That’s why Jesus said, *“The Kingdom of God is within you.”* Not out there in the sky. Not in temples of stone. But in the undivided heart.

[Closing tone: visionary, uplifting]

To speak in parables is to speak in symbols—words that carry entire meanings at once. The man with the pitcher of water, the mustard seed, the pearl of great price… all of them point to this:

The Kingdom is not something to wait for. It is here, when the two become one. It is here, when you realize it was never out there. It is here, now, when you awaken to the unity that has always been.

[Pause. Then softly:]
*He who has ears, let him hear.*

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Would you like me to also **storyboard the visuals** (scenes or imagery) that could accompany each part—for example, water-bearer entering the city, mustard seed growing, heart becoming whole—so your AI video generator has more symbolic direction?