The Chosen

I have been reading through the Gospel of Thomas once again, and each time I do I make new discoveries—or, perhaps its better to say, Thomas “unveils” itself to me in some new way. Reading this time, among other things, I noticed how the word “chosen” is used quite frequently and in such interesting ways.

For example, in Logion 23, Yeshua says that he chooses us from a multitude, and the choice is made in order that we might stand, like him (L28), on our own two feet, single and whole. It is a choosing for a purpose. If you’re a follower of Yeshua, then the Master has one purpose for the choosing—a mind, a will for you.

Then, in Logion 49, a beatitude is spoken… any who is chosen and unified (becoming single and whole) already possesses the Realm of the Kingdom. So this awareness is experienced in a state of knowing that comes from an actual process of unification (the healing of the split in duality) that has occurred. Perhaps, also, this is a choice we participate in. It is our choice that makes this happen.

More importantly, though, there seems to be another choice having been previously made, and this is suggested in Logion 50, about finding ourselves “here” and “where we came from” and “how we got here.” It is clear from a reading of this text that there is a progression: we came from “out of the Light at its source” into manifestation as Icon or Image, and then we are somehow “chosen” for something more, and find ourselves here learning to manifest “movement and rest” as a complimentary opposite.

So the point seems to be this: if you find yourself in space-time learning to do this, then you were “chosen” for space-time and for this learning. A choice was made that you might come here for this crucial, vital learning.

Three kinds of choosings, all related but a part of an eternal unfolding in time in which we are embroiled.