Mysticism & Gospel of Thomas – No. 22 – Awakening to Oneness

Verse - Awakening to the Oneness

Jesus saw babies being suckled. He said to his disciples, "These little ones who are being suckled are like those who are entering the kingdom." They said to him, "Shall we then enter the kingdom as children?"

Jesus said to them, "If you make the two into one, and if you make the inner into the outer, and the outer like the inner, the upper into the lower, and the male and the female united so that the male is no longer male and the female no longer female, if you make your two eyes into one, and see a hand instead of a hand and a foot instead of a foot, an image instead of an image, then you will enter the kingdom."

Comment

While the human child does not yet distinguish between male and female, the one who has awakened to the childship of God no longer distinguishes between these two poles of the human being, but has made one out of two.

If you do not make the right like the left and the upper like the lower, you will not recognize the kingdom. (Church father Clement of Alexandria)

The male and female in body and soul have merged into a higher unity in the self-awakened spirit.