25 You men of Galilee, take heed to how you hear and how you cultivate your fields; for if you slight the offers of this day, the sower may not come to you again in this or in the age to come. 26 Then Jesus spoke another parable; he said: 27 The kingdom I may liken to a field in which a man sowed precious seed; 28 But while he slept an evil one went forth and sowed a measure full of darnel seed; then went his way. 29 The soil was good, and so the wheat and darnel grew; and when the servants saw the tares among the wheat, they found the owner of the field and said, 30 You surely sowed good seed; from whence these tares? 31 The owner said, Some evil one has sown the seed of tares. 32 The servants said, Shall we go out and pull up by the roots the tares and burn them in the fire? 33 The owner said, No, that would not be well. The wheat and tares grow close together in the soil, and while you pull the tares you would destroy the wheat. 34 So we will let them grow together till the harvest time. Then to the reapers I will say, 35 Go forth and gather up the tares and bind them up and burn them in the fire, and gather all the wheat into my barns. 36 When he had spoken thus, he left the boat and went up to the house, and his disciples followed him. CHAPTER 116. _The Christines are in Philip’s home. Jesus interprets the parable of the wheat and tares. He explains the unfoldment of the kingdom by parables: the good seed; the growth of the tree; the leaven; the hidden treasure. He goes to a mountain to pray._ The Christines were in Philip’s home and Peter said to Jesus, Lord, will you explain to us the meaning of the parables you spoke today? The one about the wheat and tares, especially? 2 And Jesus said, God’s kingdom is a dualty; it has an outer and an inner form. 3 As seen by man it is composed of men, of those who make confession of the name of Christ. 4 For various reasons various people crowd this outer kingdom of our God. 5 The inner kingdom is the kingdom of the soul, the kingdom of the pure in heart. 6 The outer kingdom I may well explain in parables. Behold, for I have seen you cast a great net out into the sea, 7 And when you hauled it in, lo, it was full of every kind of fish, some good, some bad, some great, some small; and I have seen you save the good and throw the bad away. 8 This outer kingdom is the net, and every kind of man is caught; but in the sorting day the bad will all be cast away, the good reserved. 9 Hear, then, the meaning of the parable of wheat and tares: 10 The sower is the son of man; the field, the world; the good seed are the children of the light; the tares, the children of the dark; the enemy, the carnal self; the harvest day, the closing of the age; the reapers are the messengers of God. 11 The reckoning day will come to every man; then will the tares be gathered up, and cast into the fire and be burned.