My primary assumption is that I know nothing. The second is that the text is what it claims to be, a text rife with hidden meanings. Third, that the instructions for solving the text are given within the text itself.
(114) Simon Peter said to them: Let Mary go out from among us, for women are not worthy of the life.
Jesus said: Look, I will lead her that I may make her male, in order that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who makes herself male will enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Sayings 22 and 114 are linked in that saying 114 has a woman becoming male and 22 has male and female being made into a single one, so that the male is not male and the female not female. Consider the text as a literary puzzle, with 22 providing clues to the meaning hidden within 114.
(22) Jesus saw some infants who were being suckled.
He said to his disciples: These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom.
They said to him: If we then become children, shall we enter the kingdom?
Jesus said to them:
When you make the two one,
and when you make the inside as the outside,
and the outside as the inside, and the upper as the lower,
and when you make the male and the female into a single one,
so that the male is not male and the female not female,
and when you make eyes in place of an eye,
and a hand in place of a hand,
and a foot in place of a foot,
an image in place of an image,
then shall you enter the kingdom.
Read the saying carefully and try to visualize the scene. What are the infants experiencing? Let me be a bit more concrete. There is an infant and its mother. What is the infant doing and why is it doing what it is doing? Think motivation. If you were an infant and you're doing what this infant is described as doing, what force was it that drove you to do so?
Indeed, the child was hungry. The child's stomach is empty, there is a void.
At the outset of the process:
Inside the child is empty.
Outside the breast is full.
So the child's goal is to make the inside as the outside, which will result in the outside source reaching the same condition as the inside of the child was at the beginning of the process. With the end result that mother, who is in the upper position in the relationship, will arrive at the same state the infant existed in at the start of the process.
The second half of the saying can be identified by the return to the theme of making two into one. Notice the one aspect that fails to fall into perfect symmetry.
and when you make the male and the female into a single one,
so that the male is not male and the female not female,
and when you make eyes in place of an eye,
and a hand in place of a hand,
and a foot in place of a foot,
an image in place of an image,
then shall you enter the kingdom.
It is the eyes in place of an eye. Everything else is perfectly symmetrical. Yes, and why is our attention being directed to the eyes, to vision? What is special about the vision of infants, of newborns?
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Luke 11:34
I suggest taking a close look at this verse. Notice the two qualities your eye can possess. It can be SINGLE or it can be EVIL. We should examine the significant words in this verse very closely, giving special consideration to the definitions of the original Greek words used.
The following link may be of some help.
King James Bible With Strongs Dictionary
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