One of the remarkable contributions of Lehi's dream is a vivid description of four main groups of people, types and representations of all walks of life, persons with varying spiritual aptitudes and varying degrees of sensitivity toward things of righteousness. This part of the dream has fascinating similarities to the parable in the New Testament known as the parable of the sower-or, more appropriately, the parable of the soils, inasmuch as the parable seems to be given to stress the differences in spiritual receptivity (see Matthew 13:3-8, 18-23).