Experience is the Way to Understand the Gospel of Judas

These show different levels in the teaching: one a public teaching, the other a more advanced, secret, esoteric teaching.

The life of Jesus also worked on different levels and so we need to look deeper, taking into account the symbolic value, if we want to understand the role of Judas. In reality there was no true betrayal of trust, as both knew what was going to happen in advance.

However, looking at the symbolism of what Judas represented in his role by selling Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, he represents something within each individual (which in modern gnosis is called an ego). That something is desire—producing a betrayal that can sell the Christ (something inner on the path which Jesus represents and also has within himself), for material things of the world, possessions, pleasures, etc.

To understand this further it is necessary to go further than the academic scholar can: to use the techniques of Gnosis to go into the actual experience of it.

Let’s take a look at what can be done with esoteric study rather than academic: when out of the body several people in relatively recent years have been able to contact Judas. I know these to be objective reliable people. I personally have also met him and I, like most, have met him in hell.

Once again, things are not as they seem. Some of those who have met him—including myself—have stated that he is not in hell as a punishment; rather, he chooses to be there as someone who has awakened and who out of love is helping people in the abyss who repent, to come back out to get a human body once again, with which to take up the spiritual path and to avoid returning to hell.

To some this may seem like something that is made up, but I repeat that to understand the Gnostics we have to be a Gnostic and use Gnostic techniques; in the same way that the early Christians went out of the body to receive teachings, modern Gnostics do today and the findings are as valid as they were in ancient times. That they are not verifiable using conventional techniques and study is not surprising; they were always meant to be accessible to the few. To verify the authenticity of that statement we have to become one of the few, and that is difficult to do.

The writings of early Christianity contain an invaluable wealth of spiritual teaching; however, is it not more productive to read them (including the Gospel of Judas) with the intent of gaining information that helps in the discovery of true wisdom and spiritual knowledge, than it is to use them as something to believe in or to gain academic information?

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