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A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity1008
village contained many persons healed by His power, and His name was a
household word.
And upon His return He entered into a new stage of His work. He had
decided to divide His ministry among His twelve most advanced disciples,
as it had now reached proportions beyond His ability to personally control.
And, as was customary to Him upon all great occasions, He sought the
solitudes for meditation and spiritual strength before finally investing His
twelve Apostles with the high authority of their mission. He spent the night
on one of the hills near Capernaum, from which He descended the following
morning, wearied in body from want of rest, but strong in soul and spirit.
Then He gathered the Twelve around Him, and in a secret meeting
divulged to them certain deep truths and secrets, adding certain instructions
regarding healing work, and calling upon them for the highest allegiance to
Him and His work.
The Gospel narratives have but very little to say regarding Jesus’ work
in the instruction of the Twelve for their future mission. And the average
student of the narratives goes on without thinking of the marvelous mental
and spiritual development that must have been manifested by the Apostles
during their transition from humble fishermen, and men of similar vocations,
to highly developed teachers of advanced spiritual truths. To the occultist
especially this ordinary view seems astounding, for he realizes the many
arduous steps necessary to be trodden by the feet of the Neophyte before
he becomes an Initiate, and the higher steps awaiting the Initiate before he
may become a Master. And such a one realizes the mighty task that Jesus
performed in developing and unfolding the spiritual natures of such a body
of men until they become worthy to be His chosen representatives and
teachers. The occult traditions have it that Jesus had pursued a systematic
course of instruction of His chosen disciples, bringing them up rapidly
through degree after degree of mystic attainment and occult knowledge,
until finally they were ready for the finishing touches at His hands. And the