Divine Fire

It is easy to interpret the tenth Logion in the Gospel of Thomas:

See, I have cast fire into the cosmos, and I shall guard it carefully until it blazes.

as a sign of judgment. But it is not, in my view. Fire from heaven signals something else--the divine energies, the light of divine Consciousness being cast into the human world. Yeshua is introducing a new, surprising element, the energy of the Divine Mind or Consciousness which shall catch fire on earth and within the human heart. It is the nous which shall be activated by divine Intelligence--the fire of Heaven.

Each of us, then, possesses some spark of that fire within us. We hold, like containers, the energy of divine Consciousness within us. It is meant to "catch fire" and blaze up as a force which will eventually take hold and change the nature of our own being and consciousness. This is Yeshua's act of subversiveness, and his ability to potentiate something brand new in the human condition. And he shall remain watchful until that act is accomplished.