Gnostic Judas - Excerpts from The Flight of the Feathered Serpent

“I don’t believe in miracles,” I responded.
“It is possible that your formulation is so. But allow me to put in doubt your words.”
“How am I not going to know what I believe myself?”
“Facts reveal it. It is very simple, if you observe them well. If you wouldn’t believe in miracles, you wouldn’t go to the church.”

It was in this opportunity when he directed his first paradox. Talking very intentionally and slowly, he said:
“Same as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.”
I looked at him expressing a certain suspicion of finding myself in front of a crazy man, however his look was so clean, it was fixed in my eyes, without being impertinent, that I hesitated before completing my judgment. I didn’t say anything.

I realise that in everything that I had just lived, a miracle had happened, but I wasn’t entirely convinced. Everything had happened too casually, and also I was used to thinking that miracles, for them to be real, had to happen in a few seconds. Mine was delayed almost one year and this wasn’t for me a miracle. Maybe whoever is reading this can explain why there was a voice, an idea, something in me that insisted that a miracle had happened, but I didn’t manage to find one that completely satisfied me, even though my friend talked often about the illusion of time. In what he asked me to publish there is a mention of time and of love, which I frankly don’t understand. I have limited myself to type up the notebooks that he gave me.”

Armando Cosani

“Jesus knew that he was going to die. More even, he knew how he was going to die. His death was already predetermined, so then there was no room for betrayal, because any betrayal requires the element of a confidence based on ignorance. Think about it a little. Because what Jesus said insists that he chose the twelve and that one was the devil. Looking at the facts retrospectively it is very easy to judge and condemn Judas in base of what others interpret. But to discover the mystery by itself and with the eagerness to know the truth, it is another thing. We all carry a Judas within, as we have a Baptist, a Peter, a John and almost every character that appears in the Gospels. If we understand that these writing are about the internal development of man, we start to see the legion of characters within ourselves, as well as the facts and events that connect them.”

“During the first days of isolation in a cell, I tired to remember many of the things my friend had said and that I had noted down. But I didn’t have my notebooks handy. I started to see life and him and things in a very curious way, as if I was isolated from them. This was due to a moment where I remembered something that he had said about the key of The Sermon of the Mountain, of a key that was occult in the first sentences: ‘And seeing the crowds, he went up the mountain’.”

“Jesus of Nazareth was born with a blood that was also the blood of Maya men, which is the universal blood, joining blood, and it is burning blood that in its heart says: “I am the unity, I am.”

“To that man whose lineage is Maya and who longs to know the truth of destiny, the truth of himself above all things, destiny denies him the torpor of a normal life.
And it was that truth which Judas looked for.
And by looking for the truth of his destiny, destiny united him to that man he used to call Rabbi and who was the Lord Jesus, born in Bethlehem.
And Judas, then, newly had a destiny in truth.”

“And that which Judas, the man of Kariot, did quickly was to hold his time so that the Holy Lord Jesus placed to completion a thread in the devise of this human destiny which points in Maya lands towards a new civilisation, and that two thousand years ago He alone knew.
For if Judas did not do what he did quickly, it would have been impossible to have that which the scriptures of John relate, happen.
But this is yet to come.”

“And once this sense is opened the real path that leads to the Mayab is known and the Mayab gives these men Power, Love and Life because for them, God, the Great Hidden Lord, stops having two faces.
And what is below is united with what is above and what is above gives life to what is below.
For these scriptures are clear and sacred because their truth is not printed in books, but it is read with the soul.
For those they shall see the floods from the Ark.
And the feathered serpent shall fly.”

“Are you coming with me Judas?” he asked me as he began to walk. And I followed him. I did not know then, but since that day I always walked with him, from generation to generation, because our destiny was already devised since the beginning of time.”

“…but you Judas, you haven’t found yours and your cup will be bitter to drink, but your reward will be greater in Heaven. Behold that a great storm will come upon us and there will be worry in the tranquil heart, but yours will be shaken in its solitude and will find peace only in the joy of the Lord when the law has been fulfilled. And when everything has passed, my words will resound until the end of the centuries, for everything will pass, but they will not pass.”

“Judas, beloved of my heart, what you have seen, keep it quiet, for my hour has not yet arrived. And it is necessary that destiny is fulfilled, and you will help me in it.”

“For every human being carries a Herod within, as well as a Baptist and a Jesus. And every man also suffers the invasion of a suppressor strange to Israel. However, he will have to look for the germ of pain in Israel itself, in himself. And he will see the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the legions of lame, blind, lepers and beggars stretching out their hand, demanding compassion. And he will have a Publican like Levi and a whore like Magdalene and a Peter and a John. Also a Pilate, and myself, Judas, who will sell him to the world.”