Seeing and Becoming

What do you see?

What holds your gaze?

What do you hope others see in you?

What are you?

What are you becoming?

What will you be?

from The Gospel of Philip (Nag Hammadi Library)

It is not possible for anyone to see anything of the things

that actually exist unless he becomes like them.

This is not the way with the man in the world:

he sees the sun without being a sun;

and he sees the heaven and the earth and all other things,

but he is not these things.

This is quite in keeping with the truth.

But you saw something of that place and you became those things.

You saw the Spirit, you became Spirit.

Your saw Christ, you became Christ.

You saw the Father, you shall become Father.

So in this world you see everything and do not see yourself.

But in that world you do see yourself --

and what you see you shall become.