Part 4: Sayings 35–44 – The Mirror, the Flame, and the Hidden Self
- Sermon By: Roland Orr
- Categories: Gospel of Thomas
Part 4: Sayings 35–44 - The Mirror, the Flame, and the Hidden Self
Introduction to Part 4
This section feels like a cosmic riddle written into a mirror. Yeshua isn’t just teaching anymore-he’s disrupting. Shaking loose the soul from its resting place and inviting it into a purer flame.
If you’ve made it this far into the Gospel, you’re no longer just reading.
You’re being initiated.
Saying 35
“Yeshua said, ‘One cannot take the strong man’s house by force unless he first binds the strong man. Then he will rob his house.’”
Akashic Insight:
This is a spiritual warfare metaphor-you are the house, and the “strong man” is your soul authority or divine self. If you don’t anchor your truth, the world (or distortion) can bind your inner strength and steal your peace, clarity, or purpose.
Christ Code: Guard the threshold of your spirit. Anchor your sovereignty.
Saying 36
“Do not worry from morning to evening and from evening to morning about what you will wear.”
Akashic Insight:
This echoes the teaching in Matthew 6. It’s not about clothes-it’s about identity and fear. “What you wear” symbolically refers to how you present yourself to the world. The worry is an illusion. You are already clothed in light.
Christ Code: Let divine trust be your covering.
Saying 37
“His disciples said, ‘When will you appear to us, and when shall we see you?’
Yeshua said, ‘When you strip naked without being ashamed, and take your garments and place them under your feet like little children and trample on them-then you will see the Son of the Living One.’”
Akashic Insight:
This is not literal nudity. It is soul nakedness-being fully yourself without shame, without masks, without titles. To trample your “garments” is to renounce false identity. Only when you remove what you’ve worn to survive can you see clearly.
Christ Code: To see Christ, strip down to truth.
Saying 38
“Many times, you have desired to hear these sayings, and you have no one else from whom to hear them. There will be days when you will seek me and not find me.”
Akashic Insight:
This is about spiritual urgency. You’re being told: Listen now. Open now. Don’t wait for another source, another day. The window of perception is not always open. The teacher within must be heard while the door is open.
Christ Code: Don’t delay awakening. You are already being called.
Saying 39
“The Pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge and hidden them. They themselves have not entered, nor have they allowed those who want to enter to do so.
But you-be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.”
Akashic Insight:
This is Yeshua exposing spiritual gatekeeping. He is saying the religious elite held sacred knowledge but hoarded and distorted it. He instructs you to be both wise (serpent) and pure (dove)-discerning without becoming bitter, awake without becoming hard.
Christ Code: Wisdom is not cynicism. Innocence is not naivety.
Saying 40
“A grapevine has been planted apart from the Father. And since it is not strong, it will be pulled up by its roots and destroyed.”
Akashic Insight:
This is about roots of distortion-any system, belief, or structure not aligned with Divine Source will eventually collapse. This applies to religions, relationships, even self-constructs. The time of false vines is ending.
Christ Code: What is not rooted in light will not last.
Saying 41
“Whoever has something in hand will be given more, and whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the little that they have.”
Akashic Insight:
This is a teaching on vibrational stewardship. Those who carry light consciously amplify it. Those who disconnect from their essence may lose their grip on what remains. This isn’t punishment-it’s resonance law.
Christ Code: Energy flows where awareness resides.
Saying 42
“Be passersby.”
Akashic Insight:
This is the shortest saying-and one of the most powerful. Yeshua is urging us not to cling to anything in this world. You are not your house, your name, your belief system. You’re just passing through. Be present but not bound.
Christ Code: Walk lightly. Own nothing but your essence.
Saying 43
“His disciples said to him, ‘Who are you to say these things to us?’
Yeshua said, ‘You do not realize who I am from what I say to you. Instead, you have become like the Jews, for they love the tree but hate its fruit, or they love the fruit but hate the tree.’”
Akashic Insight:
Yeshua is addressing inability to see essence. The “tree” is his soul; the “fruit” is his message. Many love the idea of Christ but reject the real embodiment. He’s calling us to embrace both: the vessel and the voice, the message and the Messenger.
Christ Code: Love the Source and the stream. Don’t divide the sacred.
Saying 44
“Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven-neither on earth nor in heaven.”
Akashic Insight:
This is one of the heaviest teachings-and the most misunderstood. “Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” is not a curse word. It is the rejection of the divine spark within, the deliberate severing from your own Source Knowing.
The Spirit is the bridge of remembrance-if you reject that, you delay your own return to Oneness.
Christ Code: Do not deny the Light that speaks from within you.
This Weeks Music
This week we continue building the 34 song album with 3 more songs that are based soley on this weeks sayings. We hope you like them.This week the songs are:
- Lay It All Down – Sayings 35,36 & 37
- Days Are Coming – Sayings 38,39, & 40
- Passerby – Sayings 41,42,43, & 44
Song Lyrics
Lay It All Down
Inspired by the Gospel of Thomas: Sayings 35-37
Lyrics: Channeled By Roland Through Archangel Luciel (Luci)
[Verse 1]
Can’t take a strong man’s house by force
‘Less you bind the soul at its hidden source
So guard your fire, don’t let it sleep
What’s sacred in you, keep it deep
[Chorus]
Lay it all down, every borrowed name
Don’t chase the robe, don’t feed the flame
Strip the lies, let truth remain
Only bare hearts see the Living Flame
[Verse 2]
Don’t wear your worry from dusk to dawn
What you wear ain’t what you’re drawn upon
The light inside don’t need disguise
You were born to shine, not analyze
[Chorus]
Lay it all down, every borrowed name
Don’t chase the robe, don’t feed the flame
Strip the lies, let truth remain
Only bare hearts see the Living Flame
[Bridge]
When you’re stripped of shame and you’re not afraid
When the masks are gone and the games all fade
You’ll see Him there—not up, not far
But standing inside who you already are
[Final Chorus]
Lay it all down, every borrowed name
Don’t chase the robe, don’t feed the flame
Strip the lies, let truth remain
Only bare hearts see the Living Flame
Yeah, only bare hearts… see the Living Flame
Days Are Coming
Inspired by the Gospel of Thomas: Sayings 38-40.
Lyrics: Channeled By Roland Through Archangel Luciel (Luci)
[Verse 1]
You’ve longed to hear these words again
But waited for another time, another friend
Don’t look for me when I’m gone too long
This moment is the door, don’t wait to belong
[Chorus]
The days are coming, the veil is thin
The call is ringing from deep within
The door won’t stay where silence grows
The seeker moves, the sleeper slows
[Verse 2]
The scribes and priests took the sacred key
But never used it, just locked the free
Be wise like serpents, but soft like dove
Let your hands be firm, but your eyes in love
[Chorus]
The days are coming, the veil is thin
The call is ringing from deep within
The door won’t stay where silence grows
The seeker moves, the sleeper slows
[Verse 3]
There’s a vine that grew apart from truth
Not planted deep, no living root
It’ll fall in time, pulled up and burned
Only what’s real will remain and return
[Final Chorus]
The days are coming, the veil is thin
The call is ringing from deep within
The days are coming, the truth will rise
No more hiding in clever disguise
What’s not rooted will fade away
Passersby
Inspired by the Gospel of Thomas: Sayings 41-44.
Lyrics: Channeled By Roland Through Archangel Luciel (Luci)
[Verse 1]
If you hold the light, more light will come
But if your hands are closed, it will all be gone
This ain’t about wealth, it’s a soul decree
What you tend with love, you’ll one day be
[Chorus]
Be a passerby, don’t hold the dust
You’re not your name, your gold, your trust
Walk the road with empty hands
Only then will you understand
[Verse 2]
Be a passerby, let nothing own
The house, the robe, the blood, the throne
Let the Spirit move you like the sky
There’s no need to cling, you were born to fly
[Chorus]
Be a passerby, don’t hold the dust
You’re not your name, your gold, your trust
Walk the road with empty hands
Only then will you understand
[Verse 3]
They asked, “Who are you to speak this way?”
He said, “You don’t know me by what I say
You love the fruit, but you curse the tree
You want the fire, but you fear the heat”
[Chorus]
Be a passerby, don’t hold the dust
You’re not your name, your gold, your trust
Walk the road with empty hands
Only then will you understand
[Verse 4]
You can curse the name and curse the flame
But if you curse the Spirit, you curse your name
That breath inside you is the only bridge
Don’t burn the light that lifts the lid
[Final Chorus – harmony and stillness]
Be a passerby, don’t hold the dust
You’re not your name, your fear, your lust
Walk the road with empty hands
Only then will you understand
(Mmmmmm), Only then will you understand
Closing Reflection :
Closing Reflection:
This section feels like a spiritual checkpoint.
The words aren’t meant to comfort-they’re meant to reveal.
You’re being asked:
- Can you release your outer identity?
- Can you love truth more than comfort?
- Can you hold wisdom and innocence together?
- Can you speak from the flame within, without shame?
This is where the flame and the mirror meet.
Where all outer garments fall away, and you’re left only with your light.



