Know Thyself:

What does it mean really to know
oneself? To know oneself is to have
insight into one's own ultimate divine
identity. "Know yourself" is a very old Greek
maxim... that is, you have to know that
your own soul is divine, and then you
know that you are immortal, whereas the
body is the mortal part of human
existence. Now this is radicalized in the
Gospel of Thomas into saying that
everything that is experienced physically
and through sense perception,
everything in this world that you can
perceive in this way is nothing. It is, at
best, chaos and, at worst, it doesn't even
exist in reality. The only thing that really
exists is your divine spirit or your divine
soul, which is identical in its quality with
God himself.
[When one truly knows oneself], one
understands that one is divine, but also
one understands that one is mortal. In
such a way, you recognize that this
mortality is really meaningless, as
physical existence is meaningless. And
therefore, death is no longer a problem,
but death is a solution, because in death
finally all this mortality will fall away,
and the true self will be liberated to an
independent existence that's no longer
dependent on physical existence. And on
everything that goes with physical
existence, sickness and poverty and so
on. And so physical existence is often
described as poverty. But when you know
yourself you are no longer in poverty.