This Gospel was discovered in the sands of the Egyptian desert
The Gospel of Judas is one of the apocryphal gospels (meaning not recognized by the Churches) from the 2nd century, of which only a damaged 3rd-century version exists (pages 33 to 58 of the Codex Tchacos), currently held at the Martin Bodmer Foundation in Geneva. The codex was likely discovered in 1978 in the sands of the Egyptian desert near Al Minya.
The manuscript remained in a Citybank vault in Long Island, near New York, in the United States for over sixteen years, which worsened its state of preservation. It was then acquired by a Swiss foundation in 2001, the Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art, which restored it, translated it, and carried out various authentication tests, including carbon-14 dating.
The Gospel of Judas was published in 2006 by the National Geographic Society, and the original was exhibited in Washington. It was planned that the original would be given to the Egyptian government and placed in the Coptic Museum in Cairo. However, the codex, still undergoing restoration and reassembly (some fragments had been stolen before the purchase), is currently in Geneva at the Martin Bodmer Foundation. According to Rodolphe Kasser, the codex originally contained 31 double-sided pages; however, when it surfaced on the market in 1999, only 13 pages remained. The release of the full text at Easter 2006 was accompanied by popular books telling the story of the manuscript’s discovery.
According to the hypothesis proposed by the National Geographic editorial team—and widely echoed by the media—the text offers an original interpretation of Judas’s betrayal of Jesus, one of his apostles: “You will exceed all of them, for you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.” By turning Jesus over, he would have been the only disciple who truly understood the message Jesus was trying to convey. As Jesus’s beloved disciple, he was given the most difficult mission: to hand him over to the Romans. By doing so, he would have fulfilled a request from Jesus himself, allowing him to make the ultimate sacrifice for the redemption of the world.
French Translation of the Gospel
This is a French translation by Nathalie BOSSON. No modifications were made to this PDF; I found it and make it available here exactly as is.
Excerpt from the book “Yes, There Is Hell, the Devil, Karma”
Judas Iscariot is another very interesting case; really this apostle never betrayed Jesus the Christ; he only played a role and this role was taught to him by his Master Jesus.
The Cosmic Drama, the life, passion and death of our Lord the Christ, was represented from ancient times by all the great Avatars.
The Great lord of Atlantis, before the second transapalnian catastrophe, represented in flesh and blood the same drama of Jesus of Nazareth. On a certain occasion a Catholic missionary that arrived in China found the same Cosmic Drama among people of the yellow race. “I thought that we, Christians, were the only ones that knew this drama exclaimed the missionary. Confused, he put aside his habit.
Such a drama was brought to Earth by the Elohim. Any man that seeks the inner self-realization of the Being has to live it and become its central character of the cosmic scene.
In this manner, each of the 12 apostles of Jesus of Nazareth had to represent their role in the scene; Judas did not want to carry out the role that fell to him; he asked for Peter’s role but Jesus had already firmly established the role that each of the disciples had to symbolize.
Judas had to learn by memory the role that he had to represent and this was taught to him by his Master.
Judas Iscariot never then, betrayed the Master; the gospel of Judas is of the dissolution of ego. Without Judas, the Cosmic Drama is not possible; this apostle is then the most exalted adept, the most elevated of all of the apostles of the Christ Jesus.
Indubitably, each of the twelve had his own gospel; we cannot negate Patar to Peter. He is the Hierophant of sex, he who has the keys to the Kingdom in his right hand, the great Initiator.
And what shall we say of Mark, who with so much love kept the mysteries of the Gnostic unction? And what of Philip, that great enlightened Being whose gospel teaches us to come out with the astral body and travel with the physical body in the Jinn state? And what of John, with the doctrine of the verb? And what of Paul with the philosophy of the Gnostics? It would be too long to narrate here everything that is related with the twelve and the Cosmic Drama.
The moment has arrived to eliminate from our minds, ignorance and the old religious prejudices; the instant has arrived to study the Christie esotericism in depth.
V.M. Samael Aun Weor
