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61. "When it was full, the fishermen pulled it ashore, sat down and sorted the good fish into containers, but threw the useless ones away.
62. "Such is the spiritual kingdom, which rules within humans and whose king is the human being itself.
63. "Pay heed to the parables accordingly, and learn to solve their secrets, so that you learn to think and to recognize and follow the laws of Creation.
64. "Have you understood all this?" And they said, "Yes.”
65. Then he said, "Therefore, every scribe who has become a disciple of the spiritual knowledge and the spiritual kingdom is like the father of a household who retrieves from his treasure the new and the old.