By Sola Adeyegbe
A parable is a brief and clear story that illustrates a moral or a teaching. This presupposes that the story uses pictures to pass on the message.
In Creation, everything is formed, and therefore manifests in pictures. For us human beings we can only experience our surroundings and Creation as a whole pictorially. Even when it is described to us in words or through the written word, a picture arises before the eyes of our spirit for us to really experience it.
Therefore, the word “picture” has a special meaning. For example, when we get a clear idea about something we say we are in the picture. When we want to clarify or explain something to someone else, we put him in the picture. When we want to describe something in detail to a person we say we want to paint a picture to the person.
The way we are made is such that the spirit’s decisions or messages from the beyond are impressed on the back brain and this spiritual impressions form pictures which the back brain passes on to the large brain which in turn shapes these pictures into writing, speech or deed.
On the other hand, the impressions from outside are passed on through the large or frontal brain to the back brain, which then transmits them to the spirit in pictures. So to enrich ourselves spiritually we need to absorb the pictures flashed to us from above through our spirit, and also absorb the experiences from outside in pictures. This way, we enrich our spirit and advance spiritually.
Of course the Son of God knew the best way to reach the deep inner core of men and so He often spoke to people in pictorial parables. This way He made His Teachings clear and gave deep Truths to mankind in a simple way. The Mission of Jesus, contrary to popular opinions lay squarely in His Word, in bringing to mankind the Truth from Luminous Heights, in order to show mankind their way to the Light. He showed men how God’s Will governs the whole of Creation. And since man belongs to Creation, he needs to be aware of the way it runs so that he can be able to fit himself properly into the way Creation operates. Jesus used His parables to convey this Creation knowledge as we shall see in this series.
Unfortunately however, the contents of His parables have been frequently misunderstood right up to the present day. In the following parts of this essay, we will now take a few of such parables and explain them in the Light of the New Knowledge contained in The Grail Message. We will treat the following Parables:
1. The Parable of the prodigal son;
2. Parable of the wicked tenants and
3. The Parable of the wise and foolish virgins.
