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A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity1018
was tossing and pitching about among the waves in a manner which gave
concern to even the experienced fishermen who manned her. The sails had
been torn off, carrying away with them a portion of the mast, and the boat
refused to respond to her rudder, the steering gear being rendered useless.
The crew became panic-stricken and rushing to Jesus besought Him to save
them from death in the storm. “Master! Master! Help ere we perish. The
boat is foundering! Save us, Master!”
The Master arose and, using His occult power, caused the winds to cease
their tempestuous activity, and the waves to become calm. He followed
the Oriental occultists’ custom of voicing His commands in words, not
that the words had any virtue in themselves, but because they served a
vehicle for His concentrated thought and focused will which He was using
in his manifestation of occult power. With this knowledge of the process,
occultists smile when they read the naive account of the occurrence in the
Gospels, where Jesus is described as addressing and rebuking the rebellious
winds and then gently and kindly soothing the waters with words of “Peace,
be still!” The fishermen who witnessed the occurrence, and from whom the
reports thereof spread among the people, not understanding the nature of
occult manifestations, thought that He was addressing the winds as actual
entities, rebuking them and bidding them cease their vicious work, and
soothing the sea in the same manner.
They did not comprehend the mental processes back of the words, and
in their simplicity thought that He was actually rebuking the wind and
soothing the waters. All occultists know that in “treating” material conditions
the process is rendered much easier and simpler if we will but think of and
“speak to” the condition as if it had intelligence and actual being, thus more
easily directing the forces.
Obeying the thought and will of the Master, the winds abated their fury
and the waters ceased their troubling. Gradually the boat rested easily
upon the bosom of the lake, and the crew breathed freely once more, and
then began their work of righting the mast and steering gear. And they