“Wholeness means the integration of the masculine and feminine within you so that you transcend and embrace the opposites.” Cynthia Bourgeault

“When you realize that the two are one, and that each of us in our own minute particularity is living the archetypal story, and giving it flesh and blood, so that the goddess and the godman,  fully divine and fully human, are being incarnated in each one of you, and that your story is a little sliver of the history of the great story. And when you understand that, some of the levels and complexities of the difficulty. I mean, like, archetypes are just archetypes, just like music, like a score is just a score, until there actually begins to become musicians to play the music. And so if you take all the great archetypes, the feminine, the masculine, the anthropos, all these things  that our Jungian heads like to really get off of, and say that it’s all just a score, until people like Tamara or Sherry or Brian step up to the plate and start playing the music in their own life.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Mary Magdalene & the Path of Conscious Love, 06:00 disc 2 track 3

“Wholeness means the integration of the masculine and the feminine within you, so that you transcend and embrace the opposites. And that the union is the integration of the male and female  in your own soul. And if you look at it this way, then the image of Mary Magdalene and Jesus understood as the archetypal feminine would mean that this stands as a model, and hence, when you have my little statue, it stands as a model of the integrative work that each one of you must  do in your own being. To find the qualities that you have rejected or not yet been born into, and to bring them into some sort of meaningful balance, and that the Anthropos understood that way, would be a full union of the male and female within you.” Mary Magdalene & the Path of Conscious Love, 03:17 disc 7 track 7

“There is a woman in a man, and there is a man in a woman. As long as we are one-sided and so unbalanced—that is, as long as we are No.1, 2 or 3 people, there is disharmony in the man with the woman in him, or in the woman with the man in her. That is to say, the woman within the man punishes the man, and the man within the woman punishes the woman. In each case, they are at variance with themselves. When the man brings the woman in him into consciousness, or the woman brings the man in her into consciousness, then this inner variance ceases. It is long work, but from it comes peace and acceptance of the sexes. I am, of course, speaking psychologically here. This is what Christ apparently meant when He was asked when His kingdom should come and answered: 
‘When the two shall be one, and that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female neither male nor female.’
This saying of Christ is reported in the Second Epistle of Clement. We can notice here that in the case of a man, that which is without is the man, and that which is within is the woman—and vice versa. Now if a man has a bad attitude to Woman, then he has a bad attitude to the woman in himself. If a woman has a bad attitude to Man, then she has a bad attitude to the man in herself. It is exactly the same with everything. You can have a bad attitude to life, to the world and to the Universe itself—but you are in all these things and these things are in you.” Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries, p1627

“If a child is born, it is the result of three forces meeting. You may want to have a child; that is only one force—i.e. you want something. But this will not produce a child. I mean, it will not create a child. First of all, for the creation of the child, two forces must unite called Man and Woman, but something is lacking, or, you can say, without my going further into this question, that one force cannot create, two forces cannot create, but only when two forces, Active and Passive, unite through a Neutralizing Force that connects the two is creation possible. It is rather interesting to reflect on this Man/Woman arrangement in life and think about what Neutralizing Force is between them.” Commentaries, p1358

“The language of Higher Centers has nothing of Time and Space in it, and is, therefore, not logical as we understand logic. But the soul can receive messages and new meanings. In the case of a man the soul is female. In the case of a woman it is male. A superficial shallow person’s soul is not developed. All sorts of traps and pitfalls center on these simple facts. One thing, at least, can be understood here, and that is that a man successful in external life cannot proceed straight on in the same way to developing a relationship to Higher Centers. Nor can a woman. With the man or the woman a new start has to be made—and in fact a reversal—and quite new ideas taken in and thought about, and quite new kinds of efforts made. But one of the great difficulties is to wrest the soul away from being identified with the things of life. When it is so identified it is the point of greatest intensity entering into the identification and makes it difficult to break. When, through self-observation, which is observation of one’s inner world, and other work, the soul is partly turned round away from the things of external life and its appetites and its commerce with inferior ‘I’s, it may begin to pick up meaning coming from higher levels and develop. If it remains glued to the senses as, say, to a person, this will not happen. It will be unable to change its direction. The person then lives and dies and misses the mark. He has not completed himself. But if a man or a woman becomes related both to the external and internal worlds aright they are not half men or half women any longer. They are completed. They are whole men and whole women. When the rich young man asked how he could attain eternal life Christ said: “If thou wouldst become complete sell what thou hast and follow me” (Matt. xix.21). Do you imagine this merely means that he had to walk about trailing in the dust after Christ? No, it meant he had to undergo a completely new development, in a new direction, inwardly, making passive all he had got so far by counting it of no value.” Commentaries, p1696

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Logion 22
Yeshua noticed infants nursing
and said to his students,
"These little ones taking milk
are like those on their way into the kingdom."
So they asked him,
"If we too are 'little ones'
are we on our way into the kingdom?"
Yeshua replied,
"When you are able to make two become one,
the inside like the outside,
and the outside like the inside,
the higher like the lower,
so that a man is no longer male, and a woman, female,
but male and female become a single whole;
When you are able to fashion an eye to replace an eye,
and form a hand in place of a hand, or a foot for a foot,
making one image supersede another --
then you will enter in."

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Page numbers for Maurice Nicoll refer to Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Eureka Editions:2020) unless stated otherwise. 

Quotations from the Gospel of Thomas are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)

Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.