very far these expositions were from being a full and detailed explanation.

The thickest and outermost veil is removed, but we are still very far from plain speaking among "the full-grown" which St Paul tells us was equally distant from his own writing to the Corinthians. I say this on the best authority, that of the Master himself. We might have supposed that in that last discourse, which commences with the fourteenth chapter of St John's Gospel, he had withdrawn the final veil from his teaching; but no, we have his own words for it that even this is a veiled statement of the Truth. He tell his disciples that the time when he shall show them plainly of "the Father" is still future (John 16:25).

He left the final interpretation to be given by the only possible interpreter, the Spirit of Truth, as the real significance of his words should in time dawn upon each of his hearers with an inner meaning that would be none other than the revelation of The Sacred Name. As this meaning dawns upon us, we find that Jesus no longer speaks to us in proverbs, but that his parables tell us plainly of "the Father", and our only wonder is that we did not discern his true meaning long ago.

He is telling us of great universal principles which are reproduced everywhere and in everything with special reference to their reproduction on the plane of