“If they say to you, ‘Where did you come from?’, say to them, ‘We came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord and established itself and became manifest through their image.’ If they say to you, ‘Is it you?’, say, ‘We are its children, we are the elect of the living father.’ If they ask you, ‘What is the sign of your father in you?’, say to them, ‘It is movement and repose.'”
50th Saying in The Gospel of Thomas
Who are ‘they’? Who are the ‘they’ that can understand the answer to their first question? Who are the ‘they’ that can formulate such questions and understand the so very esoteric answers? Are ‘they’ the common man as he existed 2000 years ago? Are ‘they’ some type of being between this world and the next? Who needs to know the signs of my father within me?