Leaven

The metaphor of the Leaven is used to denote the spiritual consequences of adherence to a Doctrine.

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

• His presumption will be his ruin, the presumption which is already the Leaven of Pride.
• I am the Leaven: this means that my word is the Leaven.
• "Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees." In a village of the Decapolis near the Jordan, Jesus has just delivered a possessed man from Beelzebub himself. Pharisees come secretly to destabilize the former possessed man. The villagers come to warn Jesus who speaks of the "Leaven" of the Pharisees and warns that everything hidden will be revealed to the light of day (Matthew 16:5-12 - Mark 8:14-21 - Luke 12:1-12)