Gospel of Thomas, coda 22
“Jesus saw some babies nursing. He said to his disciples, ‘These nursing babies are like those who enter the (Father's) kingdom.’
Jesus is referring to infants, the youngest of children, suckling children, innocent and dependent for their life on the mother. It may be, and likely is, that Jesus is referring to the state of being that existed as the result of the first creation story, creation of the spiritual human and before the creation of the physical and mental human.
They said to him, "Then shall we enter the (Father's) kingdom as babies?"
It may be tempting to interpret this passage in physical terms. Jesus is not saying that it is necessary to be a baby, but to be aware spiritually, in that consciousness that is not physically and mentally based, where there is not dependence upon physical nurture but spiritually nurture.
The state that Jesus describes is one in which there is unity of opposites; inner and outer, upper and lower, male and female.
Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."
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