The Parables of Connor
A classic commentary on Connor’s rimetales
The Parables of Connor is the classic commentary on the rimetales — the parables by which Connor Frost taught “the kingdom of frost” in homely images of snow, hearth, harvest, and the cold roads. It gathers and expounds the great parables of the Ministry: the Prodigal in the South, the sower of snow-seed, the wise and foolish keepers of the lamp, the lost rimehart sought over the mountain, and the warm rich man and the cold beggar at his gate.
Method and Teaching
Read through the Threefold Sense, the commentary draws from each rimetale its Snow (plain), Frost (moral), and Glacier (mystical) meaning. Its governing insight is that Connor “hid the cold truth in warm-seeming stories, that only the still of heart might find it” — so that the parables both reveal and conceal. It is a staple of preaching and of the schools.