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12 Did not this parable point a moral with a prophecy, foretelling the second appearing on 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, and must destroy the entire mass of error; and so be eternally glorified in man's spiritual freedom.

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; and this continues until the leaven of Spirit changes the whole of mortal thought, as yeast changes the chemical properties of meal.

The definitions of law, material law, as given by natural science, represent a kingdom necessarily divided

against itself; because these definitions portray law as physical, not spiritual, and are therefore in contradiction to the divine decrees, and violate the law of Love, wherein nature and God are one, and the natural order of Heaven comes down to earth.

When we endow matter with vague spiritual power, — that is, when we do so in our theories, for of course we

cannot really endow matter with what it does not and cannot possess, — we disown the Almighty; for such theories lead to one of two things. They