Jesus’s teaching stories, interpreted as maps for inner development and transformed perception.
The parable of the wise and foolish virgins must be understood beyond its literal meaning - the lamp represents spiritual teaching while oil symbolizes the fruit of actual inner work. Knowledge alone creates lamps without oil; only through practical application of...
“The roots of evil go deep down into the same bedrock as the roots of evolution. They grow like the tares and wheat, as the Bible says." Cynthia Bourgeault Logion 57Yeshua says...God's realm is like this:A farmer planted good seed in his field,but at night enemies...
Again the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a net, and "is not attainable by everyone in any one particular cycle of time." Mauarice Nicoll Selection in the Kingdom of Heaven "In the teaching about the Kingdom of Heaven and its relation to humanity on earth as given in...
"The flaming sword is always active in the spiritual life of humanity. It calls to seekers and it repulses thieves." Valentin Tomberg Logion 98Yeshua says...The Father's realm is like a manwanting to kill someone powerful.So he draws a sword in his own houseand puts...
“We are coming into a new aeon, a new age. Aeons lasts about two thousand years and then its truth wears out. Then it is necessary to find new truth whereby to live, with new meaning, because the old meanings no longer conduct any force." Maurice Nicoll Understanding...
Logion 8, the parable of the net full of small fishes, and hidden among these is one large, exceptional fish. A ‘B influence’ is the large, exceptional fish. “A influences are created by life. They arise within the life of mechanical humanity from the interests of...
The essential meaning of the parable of the Unjust Steward is that if a person fails in their highest purpose, they must return to what they can know and understand. “The Parable of the Unjust Steward is about a man who fails but who acts in a way that is commended....
The laborers in the vineyard parable, with commentary from Cynthia Bourgeault and Maurice Nicoll. The parable: But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first. For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out...
The Good Samaritan parable, with commentary from Cynthia Bourgeault and Maurice Nicoll. “To a certain extent everyone asks for Good, as when a man puts an extra coal on the fire if it is cold. He does not expect any reward save the Good of the action. But nothing is...
The meaning of the wedding banquet parable: a wedding has to do with conjunctions, and not having a wedding garment means not having any emotional desire to unite with the Wisdom Teachings inwardly. “If you work wisely and well, you develop something which the...
The strange idea that men are differently sown into the earth, in the light of the Parable of the Sower. “You must realize that all the parables in the Gospels are about the Kingdom of Heaven and the parable of the Sower is the first. It is the starting−point of...
"Sometimes, it takes the complete collapse of every outer paradigm for you to realize you've just touched the pearl of great price." Cynthia Bourgeault “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great...