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of meal, till the whole was leavened," impels the inference
that the spiritual leaven signifies the Science of Christ
and its spiritual interpretation, - an inference far above
the merely ecclesiastical and formal applications of the
illustration.
Did not this parable point a moral with a prophecy,
foretelling the second appearing in the flesh of the
Christ, Truth, hidden in sacred secrecy from the visible
world?
Ages pass, but this leaven of Truth is ever at work. It
must destroy the entire mass of error, and so be eternally
glorified in man's spiritual freedom.
(The divine and human contrasted)
In their spiritual significance, Science, Theology, and
Medicine are means of divine thought, which include spiritual
laws emanating from the invisible and infinite
power and grace. The parable may
import that these spiritual laws, perverted by
a perverse material sense of law, are metaphysically presented
as three measures of meal, - that is, three modes
of mortal thought. In all mortal forms of thought, dust
is dignified as the natural status of men and things, and
modes of material motion are honored with the name of
laws. This continues until the leaven of Spirit changes
the whole of mortal thought, as yeast changes the chemical
properties of meal.
(Certain contradictions)
The definitions of material law, as given by natural
science, represent a kingdom necessarily divided against
itself, because these definitions portray law as
physical, not spiritual. Therefore they contradict
the divine decrees and violate the law of Love, in
which nature and God are one and the natural order of
heaven comes down to earth.
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