breath of true spiritual life, and makes him a living soul.
The Lord himself teaches in the parable of the sower, that seed has a spiritual signification. "The seed," He says, "is the Word;" and the Word is divine truth. And when the truth falls into humble and honest minds, and is received, understood and obeyed, the seed is said to fall upon good ground. "He that received seed into the good ground, is he that heareth the Word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundred-fold, some sixty, some thirty."
If in heaven, therefore, there exist the precious seeds of truth, and the still more precious fruits of charity, there must be a perpetual multiplication of truths and fructification of goods in the minds and hearts of the angels; and this implies eternal progress.
Analogy also lends additional support to the truth of