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Who Shall Enter?

Chapter 75 of the Gospel of Thomas for Awakening

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Jesus said, Many are standing at the door, but it is the solitary who will enter the bridal chamber. (75)

What is known as “bridal mysticism” is found in most spiritual traditions. The groom is the infinite Spirit and the bride is a finite spirit. Each one of us is to be wedded to God, but we must be faithful to our divine Bridegroom and be joined to none other. Ever. That is why Jesus (Matthew 19:4-5) taught that the prospective spouse must leave father, mother and all others behind and cling to their chosen one alone. “The solitary” Jesus refers to are those in whose hearts God alone can be found. They not only want no other, they refuse all others. Anyone not so dedicated is an adulterer in spirit.

Many are those who think they desire union with God. But only those who turn from everything else but God will find God. That is why Jesus said: “Many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able” (Luke 13:24). Why? Because “the Lord looketh on the heart” (I Samuel 16:7) and sees that he is not the sole possessor. God neither gives nor receives that which is not all.

“And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living” (Mark 12:41-44).

The foregoing is not just a pretty story. I knew a woman who told me virtually the same thing. Her father was dead and her mother made a living as a washerwoman. (This was in the early part of the twentieth century.) One Sunday when they went to church she and her sister knew that the three of them had nothing in the world but two quarters to live on for that week. When the collection was taken up, to their amazement their mother opened her purse. What was she going to do–actually give one of those quarters? No. She took both quarters and put them in the collection plate. The two girls were in shock. “But,” Nellie told me, “the very next day some money came to us–more than fifty cents. And the two of us had learned a lesson we never forgot: God deserves everything we have.”

As Sister Gyanamata, Yogananda’s greatest disciple, said: God First. God Alone.

Read the next article in the Gospel of Thomas for Yogis: Unfailing Treasure

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Chapters in The Gospel of Thomas for Awakening

  1. The Open Secrets
  2. Seeking Is More Than Just Finding
  3. Seeking the Kingdom Realistically
  4. The One Goal
  5. From the Seen to the Unseen
  6. What Jesus Wants Us To Do
  7. Eat Or Be Eaten
  8. Fishing Wisely
  9. The Inner Field
  10. Guarding the Flame
  11. What Will You Do?
  12. Who Shall Lead?
  13. The Unspeakable
  14. When Virtue is Vice
  15. Father in Heaven; Father on Earth
  16. Divine Discord
  17. The Divine Gift
  18. The Origin is the End
  19. Original Being
  20. A Mustard Seed
  21. Disciples of Jesus
  22. How to Enter the Kingdom
  23. Unity of Vision
  24. Where is Christ?
  25. Love and Protect
  26. Seeing
  27. The Fasting and Sabbath of the Spirit
  28. How Jesus Saw the World
  29. Hidden Treasure
  30. One
  31. The Power of Unbelief
  32. Spiritual Strength
  33. Speak It Out
  34. The Blind
  35. The Secret of Spiritual Security
  36. Live Carefree
  37. Unashamed Before God
  38. At the Source
  39. The Religion of Ignorance
  40. Within God
  41. Spiritual Gain and Loss
  42. Move On
  43. Challenging the Master
  44. The Source of Good and Evil
  45. Great in the Kingdom
  46. Impossible Duality
  47. Peace That Moves Mountains
  48. Back to the Source
  49. Children of the Light
  50. Here and Now
  51. Seeing Yet Blind
  52. Outer Ritual or Inner Growth?
  53. Infinite Transcendence
  54. “Hate”
  55. True Understanding
  56. Wheat and Weeds
  57. Finding Life
  58. Live and Die Not
  59. “Lest Thou Also…”
  60. Who Will Die; Who Will Live
  61. The Path of Unknowing
  62. Awakened by Death
  63. Turning Ourselves Away
  64. Gullibility
  65. The Rejected is Truly Accepted
  66. All–and Nothing
  67. The Blessings of Persecution
  68. Life or Death Lie Within
  69. Admission
  70. Not a Divider
  71. Seeking the Harvest
  72. Thirsting in Vain
  73. Who Shall Enter?
  74. Unfailing Treasure
  75. The All Speaks
  76. Well-dressed Ignoramuses
  77. True Blessedness
  78. A Duplication
  79. Balancing the Inner and the Outer
  80. Near and Far
  81. Seeing the Unseeable
  82. Seeing Your Unknown Side
  83. Our Forefather Adam
  84. Blessed Homelessness
  85. Doubly Wretched
  86. Onward and Upward
  87. Twofold Life
  88. The Yoke of Christ
  89. Knowing the Unknown
  90. Asking and Hearing
  91. Give Not…
  92. Seeking and Knocking
  93. Right Generosity
  94. The Expanding Kingdom
  95. The Fulfilled Universe
  96. Taking Stock
  97. The Spiritual Family
  98. Three Debts
  99. Father and Mother
  100. Exoteric Religion
  101. Ready for Invasion
  102. Penitential Discipline, Anyone?
  103. Daring to Know
  104. Ending Duality
  105. “I Love You More…”
  106. At the Source
  107. Finding the Hidden Treasure
  108. Having Come to the End
  109. Immortal and Above the World
  110. Body and Soul
  111. Where is the Kingdom?
  112. Male and Female?
  113. In Conclusion
  114. Glossary
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