Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

CULTIVATING CORN, GRASS, AND FRUITS 

A symbol of the fostering of those virtues and utilities which accrue to the soul through the exercise of the active functions of the mind.

“You go to Nature and say, ‘Feed me or I shall starve’; and her question comes back to you, ‘How (much seed) have you? Give me something to begin with, however little it may be. Drop the old remnants of a past life into the ever‑fruitful soil, and all the possibilities of new life open. The spring‑time finds last summer’s roots still remaining in the ground, and quickens them to life again, and multiplies them into a richer summer still. Ingenious Nature finds a germ wherever it is dropped; but without the germ she will do nothing.’” — Phillips Brooks, Serm., *How Many Loaves Have Ye?*

“God comes to man, yea, He comes closer, till He enters into men. No disposition is good apart from God. Seeds of the divine are planted in human bodies; if they are well tended, they germinate and grow up into the likeness of That from whence they sprang (Seneca, Ep. LXXIII. 14). The teaching that there is a germinative principle — a seed of God in the human soul — was a fundamental idea with the Stoics. This doctrine, interpreted at its best, offers a basis for mystical religion and was very suggestive to the primitive Christians.” — R. M. Jones, *Mystical Religion*, p. 70.

See Also

AGRICULTURE
CORN
CREATURES (small)
GERMS
PLOUGHING
SEED
SOWING