A simple answer to this question is that allegory is a way of explaining things which cannot easily be explained, by telling a story which has a deeper meaning. This means that we use an allegorical way of saying something that is hard to explain. We will use everyday terms and situations to illustrate a spiritual meaning. Here is an example of allegory. Yesu told the parable of the shepherd that lost one sheep. The shepherd left the other 99 sheep and set off looking for one. This is allegory for the meaning: God is concerned about you even if you are lost, even if you are only one out of one hundred, and God will send a guide to find you and show you the Way back Home.

Now why did Yesu not tell the story in the way we just stated it? Because the story leads to many levels of understanding and eventually says more than we can say in a book. Our explanation is a simplified way of one understanding of the allegory. The beauty of allegory is that it serves each person at his/her level of understanding and spiritual maturity. The result is that the same little story, which is easily remembered because of its simplicity, can serve the a person for a lifetime or more. Another aspect of allegory is that, for instance, a child can remember the story and tell it over to other people-people that can be led to very deep understanding of a spiritual nature-an understanding that the child did not grasp at first hand.

Most mystical literature, almost all mystical literature such as the Eastern Bible is in allegorical form. So-called facts, figures, statistics and history (his story) is not of much help in the spiritual quest because the spirit is more at home in the multi-dimensional universes than in this world. Spiritual things cannot be properly described in the limitations of the human language. All mystics who write, or wrote, struggle with this problem. This is the reason why almost all mystical literature is in poem, prose or another allegorical form of communication. Almost the entire Eastern Bible is in allegorical form.

Can nature tell us an allegorical tale? Oh definitely yes. One example: Consider the little egg hatching, a caterpillar roams its universe at its grassteranian world and is then transformed via the mummified silence of the pupa meditation to the magnificence of the butterfly roaming its universe free from the constraints of its previous worm nature, and it delights in a new sensitive sensual palette and attitude.