Parables

Parables are, as we know, allegorical narratives in which the set of elements evokes, by comparison, other realities.

Jesus often talked through parables, which rely in large numbers and they were the subject of many comments and important works, as Parables and Teachings of Jesus, by Cairbar Schutel, and Stories that Jesus told, by Clovis Tavares, among many others.

Through them it is possible to contact more easily with the thought of Jesus about the most different topics.

Days ago it was discussed in a meeting of spirit friends an issue that has been common in our midst: the defection of fellows who start but do not take ahead the assumed task in spirit institution. The person arrives at a spirit center, enthuses with what sees, engages in this or that work, but suddenly disappears and a few are knowing what in fact happened.

The defection - word that Allan Kardec used in similar situations - is something too, as we know, very common in spirit families. Young people born in spirit home, with the usual exceptions, remain in spirit labors at a certain age, but there are still few when they enter in academic life.

Although it has been with us for over 2,000 years, Jesus, incredible as it may seem, alluded to this fact in a known parable that the apostle Matthew recorded in chapter XIII from his notes.

Let’s see it: 

At that same day, having left the house, Jesus sat down at the edge of the sea; around him soon met large crowd of people; so he got into a boat, which sat, all the people kept standing at the edge of the sea. And he said many things in parables, said to them thus:

- He who sows went forth to sow; and, sowing, some seeds fell along the path and the birds of the air came and ate it.

Some fell on rocky ground where it had little soil; the seeds soon sprouted, because it lacked depth the land where they had fallen. But getting up, the sun burned them, and as they had no root, dried up.

Other seeds fell among thorns and such, as they were growing, they drowned. Another finally fell on good soil and produced fruit, yielding a few hundred seeds by one, other sixty, and some thirty. Listen to those who have ears to hear. (Matthew, chapter XIII, vv. 1 to 9.)

It looks that Jesus companion did not understand the parable then the Master, explainer it:

Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. Whoever hears the word of the kingdom and does not give it attention, the evil one comes and takes away the spirit that had been sown in his heart. This is who was sown along the way.

You who receive the seed in the midst of the stones are listening to the word and receive it with joy at first. But, having no roots in it only lasts a while. In befallen setbacks and persecutions because of the word, then he takes occasion of stumbling and falling.

He who receives the seed of thorns is he that heareth the word; but in whom, therefore, the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke that word and make it unfruitful.

But the one that receives the seed on good ground is he that heareth the word, that watch and who produce fruit, yielding a hundred or sixty or thirty for one. (Matthew, chapter XIII, vv. 18 to 23.)

Allan Kardec wrote:

“The parable of the sower perfectly expresses the existing nuances in the way they use the teachings of the Gospel. How many people there are, in effect, for which it is but a dead letter and that, as the fallen seed over boulders, gives no fruit!

No less fair application it is found in the different categories of spirits. They are not in it symbolized the only violate the material phenomena and any consequence take them because they do not see them more than curious facts?

Those who only care about the bright side of the communications of spirits, in which they are only interested when they satisfy the imagination, and that, after they have heard, they preserved themselves as cold and indifferent as they were?

Those who realize very good advice and admire, but to be applied to others and not themselves?

Those ultimately for which these instructions are like the seed that falls on good soil and bears fruit?" (The Gospel According to Spiritism, chapter XVII, item 6)

In the face of such clear lessons, no need to add anything to who deserted their accepted commitments, except a warning that Abel Gomes sent by the hands of Chico Xavier, it was published in the book Speaking to Earth, page 67: "In the way we grow in wisdom and love, we consider the loss of minutes as the most unfortunate and damaging of all."