Those entering in

No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.

Since the lamp of the body is the eye, a source of spiritual light, and since the body is likely the house here mentioned, there is an interesting concept here.

In the Greek, it is οἱ εἰσπορευόμενοι. It is translated as "those entering".

Into where is the entry? Into the body-house.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.

Who then are "those who enter"?

Whoever they are - and they might be a kind of spirit permitted and desirable to be drawn into the body - they use the spiritual light of the lamp-eye to see inside the body.

Of course, there are unclean spirits that can exit and return to enter the body-house.

When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’

Then "those entering" may be clean spirits which are supposed or allowed to cycle out and in to and from the body in a sort of spiritual ecology.

What they are though, is still a mystery to me.

In Chinese spiritual legends, qi is a type of spirit which can be drawn into the body and used for spiritual cultivation, empowered techniques, and self-enhancement like strength, stamina, and longevity of life. Perhaps there's a relation.

If the breath is another natural medium for such exchange of spirits, then perhaps it is related to "those entering"?

If you have any thoughts or suggestions about what they are, please send a email of any length to LWCmonastery@gmail.com

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