tecnh
Parables
II: Spiritual Truth or Wisdom
August
1860
How
shall I illustrate this spiritual truth (or wisdom)? I will call it a
king, who made a great feast (or science) for man, his son. So he
sends wisdom into the minds to call (or reason) about this great
feast (or science). They - that is, their errors - prevented them
from understanding, so he sent other ideas (or arguments) to convince
the error, so that it could understand.
But
the error made light of the truth and went their way and would not
reason; so that it could not get any foothold, as yet. So the error
ridiculed any idea that would rise in the minds that this truth ever
could be reduced to a science. They discarded from their minds all
idea of a science - but admitted it as a gift or power.
So
when the king had failed to reduce this truth to a science, because
of the errors of the age, it was wroth; and it sent forth its power
and destroyed these errors that were murdering its science, and by
its truth, burnt up their old theory (or society). “Then,” said
he, “the wedding (or science) is ready to be understood by man (or
the son).”
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