JESUS drew richly upon the divine Mind for inspiration and thus was enabled to expose the inconsistencies of so-called human nature in his parables in ways that burn deep into human consciousness. His great parable of the sower (Matt. 13:3-8, 18-23) is filled with spiritual meaning. Students who accept him as their Way-shower receive new inspiration and healing as they study this parable and the others that he gave.
In this parable of the sower, Jesus boldly points out the weaknesses and occasional virtues of certain specific types of human consciousness. Referring to the state of thought wherein a sudden interest in things of the Spirit springs up but soon wanes, he speaks of those seeds which fall upon stony places, where there is not much earth. When the heat of the day comes, they cannot stand up under it, and so they wither away. The roots do not lie deep enough in the earth to draw upon the stored-up moisture which is there, and which could sustain them.
This metaphor throws helpful light upon the behavior of some students of Christian Science who, after they have worked earnestly to realize a healing of some inharmonious condition, let up somewhat when the healing has been accomplished. Their quest for spiritual enlightenment lapses into a sort of rest period, in which they continue, satisfied with release from the painful or disturbing pressure of the physical or mental problem itself. The subtle error, which would deceive in this way many who are unaware of its robbing nature, should be guarded against.
