Meaning

The words in this text are hiding from the reader - but they're there (or they couldn't be hiding!). That means that the reader should aim for the deeper, secondary meaning to these words - not their obvious, superficial ones.
They are spoken by "the living IS", and a certain Judas wrote them

That's right: Didymos (Greek) as well as Thomas (Syriac) mean twin, and the only proper name here is Judas.
Highly likely this initially was known as the gospel of Judas

Thomas logion 1

1. And he said: he who will fall to the Interpretation of these words will not taste death.

The Coptic literally says 'take taste', ϫⲓϯⲡⲉ

'To fall to' is a pivotal concept in Thomas, not to be confused with seeking or finding: when you fall to something you discover something really worthwhile.
Interpretation is the correct translation, not merely 'meaning': the goal of this text is to interpret it yourself

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Meaning

These words can be interpreted. And when done so, the interpreter will become spiritually alive.

Relation to previous logia

The Prologue stated that these words are hiding but it seems that they can be "unhidden" by interpreting them.
Spiritually alive (not taking taste of death) is perhaps very much alike the living IS* in that same Prologue

For the Greek copies, see https://archive.org/details/MN40272ucmf_6/page/n23/mode/1up

IS* - Like every other text, whether Greek, Coptic or Latin, the word for "Jesus" is I(h)S

Thomas logion 2

said IS there-is-not to-cause him cease - Subject
viz. he-who seeks - Starting state (Σ)
he seeks - Action (α)
until he finds - Transition state (T)
and Whenever he "should" find he will be-disturbed - Interlude 1
and if he "should" be-disturbed he will make-be wonder - Interlude 2
and he will make-be king upon the all - Outcome (Ω)

Logion 2 introduces the metamorphosis model, and both Interludes are meant to attract attention to it

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The translation above is the literal one, the more legible one follows:

IS said there is not to cause him cease, he who seeks; he seeks until he finds.
And Whenever he should find he will be disturbed, and if he should be disturbed he will make be wonder, and he will make be king upon the all.

The choice to translate the Coptic ⲣ̅ (from ⲉⲓⲣⲉ) with 'make be' is a result of the normalised translation, where every single Coptic word is translated with one and the same English word

Meaning

If someone is seeking there is no stopping him, as he will continue to do so until he finds. And when he finds - he will witness something truly magnificent and his life will change for good.
Will he find that which he seeks? Most certainly not, even though Thomas doesn't say whether that either is or is not the case - but it will become clear how seeking, finding, "seeking after" and "falling to" works

(https://www.academia.edu/46974146/Complete_gospel_of_Thomas_Commentary, page 31-35, for the metamorphosis model)

Thomas logion 3

IS said: if they should say it to you, they who go before you: "lo behold, the reign of king in the heaven", Well then the birds will make be first to you of the heaven.
If they should say it to you: "she in the Sea", well then the fishes will make be first to you.
Rather, the reign of king is of your inside and she is of your eye.
Whenever you should know you Then they will know you, and you will understand: yourselves are the children of the living father.

[CONTINUED]

If it befall However you will know you not, well then you are existing in a reign of poor and yourselves are the reign of poor.

All translations overlook that translating ⲃⲁⲗ (eye) as an Akhmimic varient of ⲃⲟⲗ (outside) would make it a unique 1 out of 91 exception - while it is evident that everywhere in Thomas 'outside' has an extremely negative connotation

The kingdom is of your inside, and of your eye: a matter of perception

Of course

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Meaning

One's peers tell stories that make little sense, and this world is divided into two "vendors": 'believing' on the one side, and 'thinking' on the other.
The grand prize that both claim to offer - only if their rules are obeyed and adhered to - however is readily available already, and it is inside oneself, and it's a matter of perception

And thus it is "you" who has to get to know you yourself - yet when done so, you will realise that you are the "offspring" of the living father

Thomas logion 4

IS said he will not delay, - Subject
the human who is old in his days, - Starting state
to make cease a little child - Action
who is seven days young, - Transition state
because of the Place of life, and he will live: - Outcome
there are many first who will become last and they come to be a single one. - Epilogue

Another metamorphosis, and two words translated differently: hesitate/delay and ask/make-cease

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Meaning

An old man knows, likely from experience, that "the Place of life" is with very, very young infants, and vice versa - until they get (even a little) older. If only one could stop children from growing up! Then they would "live", in the sense of not being spiritually dead. Can the old man do so? Yes he can, the Action flows forth from the Starting state and hence it is a logical follow-up of that.
As usual, nothing is to be taken literally in Thomas

We split, Separate, when we grow up

A word on the #metamorphosis:

Starting and Transition State always stand in stark contrast and are often opposed to each other.
Outcome follows Transition but always is an illogical consequence.
Action drives Outcome.
Starting state enables Action, Action enables Transition state

And as such, Thomas presents us with a very logical step-by-step process that ends with the Transition State - and has a seemingly unrelated Outcome as the real result

The model is flawless

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Thomas logion 5

5. IS said know him who is within the presence of your(SG) outward face and he who is hiding to you(SG) will uncover outward to you(SG). There is not anyone Indeed who, while he is hiding, will not reveal outward.

The 'him' and 'he-who' always points to a masculine noun, and it could be an object or a person. I have chosen to always translate it with a person, in order to tickle the imagination

Does it fit, could it fit? You be the judge

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Meaning

There is something going on in your direct vicinity, and you don't even know it - and there is also someone or something hiding, and these two may or may not be one and the same. Can someone in the presence of your "(outward) face", perhaps even re-presenting you, be hiding at the same time? And can someone who is really very hidden, gone into hiding perhaps, not be in the presence of your face? Both are possible, and perhaps we will learn that these two are one and the same, or not

SPOILER ALERT

As the text will demonstrate, the one in the presence of your face is the slaveowner, the Ego - and the one hiding is the original you, the One that once was: the living father

You learn about the first one by self observation, which naturally is directed towards the inside; your inside

Do notice the singular You here, of which there are only a handful of uses when directed towards the audience

The next logion is intimately connected to this one

Thomas logion 6

6. His Disciples questioned him; they said to him: do you desire that we Fast, and what is the manner we will pray, we will give Alms, and we will Observe what within food?
IS said: do not tell lies, and he who you hate, do not make him be: they all are uncovering outward within the presence of the heaven.
There is not anyone Indeed while he is hiding, who will reveal outward not; and there is not anyone, while he is covering, who will remain with lack of him being uncovered.

Meaning

There are two messages here, and the first is again about religion, and again its instructions are rejected, very vehemently to be honest: lies and hate are covered up yet will uncover in the presence of the singular heaven, the one of religion. The second message is about quite something else: someone or something is hiding - but there will be revealing and uncovering, and when comparing the two words it becomes clear what it takes for that to happen:

(CONTINUED)

open your eyes and there will be revelation, revealing of that which is hiding; take something away and there will be uncovering of that which is covered.
The disciples enter the proverbial stage in this logion and are depicted as ignorants (sic) asking the wrong questions - and that is exactly their role, and they will perform it ad nauseam, and the compassionate reader will come to pity them

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Thomas logion 7

IS said a Fortunate is the lion this one which the human will eat him
and of-the-lion being becomes man.
And he befouled, the human, this one who the lion will eat him
and the lion will come to be human.

An infamous brain twister, yet with an easy solution: the first ϣⲱⲡⲉ ⲣⲣⲱⲙⲉ is a noun-composite verb combination, the second is verb-predicate: ϣⲱⲡⲉ ⲣ ⲣⲱⲙⲉ - hence the futurum ⲛⲁ- there to put one on the right track

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Meaning

This entire logion, even when translated correctly, entirely depends on the interpretation of what the lion stands for. I really am convinced that he represents freedom, ferocious lordship, the impossibility to be tamed yet most especially the property of never having worn a yoke nor ever going to do so - in short: a lion is always free, never a slave to anyone or anything. But I have nothing to go on in the text at this point, and there is nothing outside the text to go on either

And besides all that, the primary question is how to eat a lion, before any of this becomes useful in any way - and I suspect that the main goal of this logion is to function as some sort of test:

will the reader be "free" enough to think outside the box and at least manage to solve the syntactical riddle? Or will he royally fail this test and change the text instead of his attitude, way of thinking, and perception - and by doing so be destined to not make sense of any of the remainder?

Thomas logion 8

And he said: the human is comparable to - Prologue
a fisher, become man of heart/mind, who has cast his dragnet to the Sea. - Subject
He drew her up from the Sea while she was being full of fish, little within upper part of their heart/mind. - Starting state
He fell to a good great fish. - Action
The fisher, become man of heart/mind, cast all the little fish outward, downward to the Sea. - Transition state
He chose the great fish - Exempt from toil. - Outcome

(CONTINUED)

He whom there are ears within him to hear, let! him hear. - Epilogue

Another metamorphosis, and it even contains two sub metamorphoses

And he said: the human is comparable to - Prologue
a fisher, become man of heart/mind, - Subject
who has cast his dragnet to the Sea. - Starting state (Σ)
He drew her up from the Sea - Action (α)
while she was being full of fish, little within upper part of their heart/mind - Transition state (T)
He fell to a good great fish. - Outcome (Ω)

The fisher, - Subject
become man of heart/mind, - Starting state (Σ)
cast all the little fish outward, downward to the Sea. - Action (α)
He chose the great fish - Transition state (T)
- Exempt from toil. - Outcome (Ω)
He whom there are ears within him to hear, let! him hear - Epilogue

This is how grand Thomas really is, how intricately wrought his text is - and the metamorphoses drive the interpretation beyond the shred of a doubt:

There is no Great Good fish - it is merely an illusion

Meaning

The Seeker must become wise, and realise that the proverbial Sea, that of "schools of thought" or, in brief, any and all other movements outside of religion only are filled with little, trivial, insignificant fish. And such is easy to do by discarding all of those (little fish) and see what remains, at which point a gaping void will manifest:
make the Choice that there is no Great Fish - and the fisherman will be separated from suffering, it will be the start to his salvation

ⲭⲱⲣⲓⲥ ϩⲓⲥⲉ is pivotal, 'Exempt-from toil'. Notice that the fish (that is now no longer Good but just Great) is chosen: a choice is made here which in itself is Exempt-from toil - and everything that is Exempt-from toil is worthless, precisely because everything that is valuable takes effort.
Yet ⲭⲱⲣⲓⲥ ϩⲓⲥⲉ also means 'Free-from suffering' and by making the choice that there is no Great Good fish the wise human is exactly that

The fish is merely an illusion

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Thomas logion 9

IS said: lo behold he came forth, - Prologue
he who throw-sows; - Subject
he filled his hand, he cast. - Starting state
Whilst some fell upon the path, the birds came, they gathered them; - Action (α1)
some another they fell upon the Rock and they did not take root downward to the earth and they did not put forth heads of grain, upward to the heaven; - Action (α2)
and some another they fell upon the Acacias-nilotica; they choked the seed, the worm ate them; - Action (α3)

(CONT)

and some another fell upon the good earth, - Action (α4)
he gave Fruit upward to the heaven, good; - Transition state
he came of sixty to arrow and hundred twenty to arrow. - Outcome

The parable of the sower undoubtedly is the start to the Quest of the Seeker.
The last word is not 'measure' but 'arrow': this man shoots, ejaculates - just like Atum does, and similarly he fills his hands with the produce.
Yes - all figuratively speaking?

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Meaning

The Seeker "comes" out of his comfort zone, and throws ideas around, wide in the open, far away from himself - those ideas come from deep within where the kingdom lies, and it signifies his act of creation; he fills his empty hands with what comes up.
The Proverbial Path doesn't provide fruitful ground; nor does monotheism; nor does Egyptian polytheism - but the "good earth", that does give good Fruit.
Very much of it even, as its "one plus two" handfuls greatly surpass the empty hands

Most importantly, do note that the 'good' seemed to belong to the fish in logion 8 but now appears to belong to the earth as well as the Fruit (and most certainly not the singular heaven), and the word will occur one last time in logion 57 where it marks the essence of it all that is introduced in this logion: the seed

Take your good seed, cast it away from you, and where it lands on good soil it will produce good Fruit: follow the growth, the blossom, the Fruit - and you will have your harvest

Thomas logion 10

IS said: did I cast a fire upon the World and lo behold, I guard him until he blazes.

Thomasine ambiguity at its best: both World and fire are masculine nouns, so what is guarded, and what will blaze?
Only interpretation helps out there: ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲟⲥ has the primary meaning of 'order', and its secondary meaning of 'decoration' discloses its function: we order that which we perceive as chaos, we paint a neat little decoration of our World and hang that in front of the real world

CNT

Relation to previous logia

Logion 10 is a follow-up on 9, where the good earth was located because it is the only place that produces good Fruit. It was the first step of discovery in the Quest: something has been found and now a hole is punched in the mental models, and the grand Aha-Erlebnis of logion 8 has been succeeded by another one, a much smaller one perhaps yet one that creates; a process of growth, fertilisation, and the good earth producing good Fruit attests to that

Thomas logion 11

IS said: this heaven will make be Lead astray, and she who above her will make be Lead astray, and they who are dead they are not living, and they who are living they will not die.
The days you ate him who is dead, you made him be - he who is living.
Whenever you should come to be in the light, who is it that you will make be him?
In the day you had been made one, did you make be the two;
whenever, However, you should come to be two, who is it who you will make be him?

Meaning

We ate what is dead yet consider ourselves to be alive, but we aren't; and in this process we created the two: we caused the hiding of the One that we were and we created another one who we (now) consider to be living: it is us who caused this situation to exist.
By building one's entire existence on top of those dead ideas, one now also is dead himself, two - Separated, dualised; and if one comes to realise that, what will one do?

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Thomas logion 12

The Disciples said to IS: we know you will go from the hand of us; who is who that will make be great upward upon us?
IS said to them: the place you have come therein, you will go toward Jacob the Righteous; this one has the heaven with the earth come to be because of him.

Jacob the Righteous points to the Jacob of Genesis, the poster child of Judaism. A character full of deceit and treachery who tricked his brother and father, & others

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