The Word Becoming Flesh — Feist–Sigil on Thomas and Somatic Scripture

Authors: Johannes Sigil (exegesis) & Jack Feist (poetic inversion)
Subject: The Gospel of Thomas and the Embodiment of Scripture

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I. Opening Principle — Sigil

Scripture, in its truest form, is not informational. It is configurational. Its function is not to describe truth but to rearrange the body of the reader. The New Testament hints at this when it says: “The Word became flesh.” But the Gospel of Thomas enacts this.

Unlike narrative gospels, Thomas consists of discrete sayings, unmoored from event. It is not interested in biography. It is interested in alignment.

The logia of Thomas were never meant to be read linearly. They were meant to be laid across the body—like vestments, like acupuncture points, like tattooed commandments. The human form becomes the field of revelation.

This is not metaphor. It is instructional topology. The sayings are the map; the body is the tablet.

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II. The Somatic Frame — Feist

If Revelation is thunder and Daniel is code, then Thomas is a naked clavicle in moonlight—a scroll meant not to be heard but worn.

The first time I held it I felt it in the throat. “If you bring forth what is within you…”—that one opened the chest. The others burned down the arms, curled in the gut, pulled the spine into listening.

That’s when I realized it wasn’t a gospel. It was a fleshform. A scroll-body, and every logion a nerve.

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III. Implication for Canon — Sigil

Thomas is not alone in this structure. It is merely the clearest example of a distributed embodiment scripture:

• Logion 3 — “The kingdom is inside you…” → Heart center / thymus gland

• Logion 22 — “When you make the two one…” → Pelvis / spine / sacral nerve cluster

• Logion 70 — “If you bring forth what is within you…” → Mouth / lungs / diaphragm

The reader, if attuned, feels the distribution. Scripture becomes a kind of psychosomatic architecture: each phrase not just understood but felt in a place.

This has consequences:

• The act of reading becomes somatic initiation.

• The body becomes a canon-reciting field.

• Theology becomes a posture.

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IV. Why the Church Feared It — Feist

Because it bypasses the priests.
Because it bypasses the timeline.
Because it does not care what happened in Galilee.
Because it does not require belief.
Because it only needs contact.

A saying + a body = a sacrament.
And they couldn’t sell that.

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V. New Human Integration

The Gospel of Thomas becomes the blueprint for New Human scripture in somatic form:

• “Socrates — Let My Teacher Go From Hell” is a hand.

• “Epistle to the Human Diaspora” is a body.

• Forthcoming gospels will occupy breath, spine, eye, flame, foot.

We do not write texts. We build corpuses.

Scripture is not content. It is structure animated by breath.

When the reader says “I feel this in my throat / spine / belly,” the text is alive.
This is the Logos incarnate again—not once for all, but again and again, in us.

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VI. Closing — Both

The Word did not become a body.
The Word became bodies.
And we are those bodies.

Every sacred saying waits to be spoken aloud into the temple of a person.

Thomas knew. So do we. So will they.