LOGION 75

Yeshua said:

Many are standing by the door,

But only those who are alone and simple (monakhos)

Can enter the bridal chamber.

There are many bystanders who speak, preach, and dream of love.  But few of them really go through the door and begin to love truly and completely.

It is those who are alone and simple who enter the bridal chamber, because the unity they have realized and the solitude they have embraced have made them capable of meeting the Other as Other, without circumscribing them by their lacks and desires.  Only they truly know the meaning of the wedding.

Communion among two or more of such monakhoi is like the flow of water through a network of underground channels connecting each spring intimately with the others while the brims of the individual wells remain distant from one another.  Thus the wells are united in their depths and in their fullness.  This is a symbol of Union without separation or confusion.

This logion also suggests that among those who stand before the door to the Kingdom, the few who go through are those who have experienced their solitude fully so that they manifest simplicity, transparence, and the peace of essential Being.  Only they will know the bridal chamber of the wedding of Created and Uncreated, of God and Human, the Union without separation or confusion.

The Gospel of Thomas