Mysticism & Gospel of Thomas – No. 15 – Right Insight

Verse - Right Insight

Jesus said, “When you see him who was not born of woman, fall on your face to the ground and worship him, for he is your Father.”

Comment

The meaning of the word is obvious. Whoever awakens to the inner man, who is not born of a woman like the outer man, to the divine self without birth or death, Christ in him, has, as it says in the Gospel of John, seen Christ and at the same time seen the Father. And in the same moment, illuminated and transformed by the inner light, he is certain: "I and the Father are one!" The word follows on from the instruction begun in the previous saying and finds its counterpart in the quoted word. Perfect insight is the view of the One. The highest self-knowledge is at the same time knowledge of God.