Parable of the Broken Blades

Jesus sat amongst the theives, extortioners and courtesans and taught. One of his followers asked, Rabboni, master of the wise, why do you sit amongst these who are unworthy, for they will not help your cause. This will cause you nothing but evil.

 

And Jesus spoke a parable: he said, Behold a famer had great fields of ripened grain, and when he looked he saw that the blades of many stalks of wheat were bant and broken down.

 

And when he sent his reapers forth he said, We will not save the stalks of wheat that have broken blades..

 

Go forth and cut and burn the stalks with broken blades.

 

And after many days he went to measure up his grain, but not a kernel could he find.

 

And he called the harvesters and said to them, Where is my grain?

 

They answered him and said, We did according to your word: we gathered up and burned the stalks with broken blades, and not a stalk was left to carry to the barn.

 

From The aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, by Levi, Chapter 27