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FEED; FEEDING

Symbolic of the dispensing of truth and goodness to the qualities, or imparting instruction to the mind and soul.

"Simon Peter saith unto Jesus, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. Tend my sheep. . . Feed my sheep." - JOHN xxi. 15-17.

Here the disciplined lower mind (Peter) is represented as growing in grace and in truth, and therefore becoming capable of instructing the qualities. At first the command of the indwelling Christ is to give instruction to the minor virtues (lambs), but afterwards as love of truth and righteousness increases, the lower mind is enjoined to instruct the major virtues (sheep). Then the allegory goes on to describe how the lower mind, at first a law to itself, shall when purified and perfected and ruled by the Spirit within, be crucified," and transmuted, and so disappear as lower mind, being carried away and its elements dissolved by the Supreme Law.

"To feed means to teach." - SWEDEN. BORG, Apocalypse Revealed, n. 383.

"God is Love and Goodness. Fill the soul with goodness, and fill the soul with love, that is the filling it with God. If we love one another, God dwelleth in There is nothing else that can satisfy." - F. W. ROBERTSON, Sermons, 3rd Series, p. 259.

 

See Also

ASCENSION (Osiris)
BREAD
EATING
FOOD
LAZARUS
MEAT
PETER
SHEEP
WATER