“That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. 37 A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. 38 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”
He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”
(Mark, 4:35-41)
The Spiritual Master Eugênia Comments on the Passage of the Gospel:
It is important to consider this so wise passage from the Gospel: the crowd, symbolically, is both our ungoverned thoughts and feelings, as much as the outside world with its conventions… and contradictions, in relation to our eternal interests – and the crowd was left behind, by Jesus command.
The apostles represent the powers of the psyche, such as memory, analytical intelligence, the power of decision, affection, mediumship, the ability to synthesise, etc.
The boat is, metaphorically, the individuality as a whole, while Christ is the personification of the personality’s Divine Center, that despite being asleep in the human creature of today’s Earth, is at the stern of the vessel and not at the prow, as the sacred text reveals – that is: next to the helm of the ship of existence, to lead the soul to its evolutionary destiny.
Finally, the sea and the winds are allegories of the various difficulties and challenges that we all must face, in order to expand our conscience to new levels of complexity and depth, with a spirit of combativeness and determination, and never of slack idolatry, which becomes frightened before the Divine Power, but not concerned about engaging itself effectively in Its work.
Spiritual guides, Masters of the Sublime Plane and Jesus Himself await from us this leap of “awakening” to the “other side” of Life, as being the best side of interpretation of life’s events, of people and circumstances: in a optimistic, constructive, solidary way, and, consequently, pacifier and promoter of happiness, ours and of others.
(Received by Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar, on the dawn of October 16, 2011.)
Jesus Commands the Storm to Calm Down, and the Spirit Eugênia Explains the Famous Biblical Passage in a Modern and Instructive Magnificent Psychological Language
“That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. 37 A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. 38 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”
He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”
(Mark, 4:35-41)
The Spiritual Master Eugênia Comments on the Passage of the Gospel:
It is important to consider this so wise passage from the Gospel: the crowd, symbolically, is both our ungoverned thoughts and feelings, as much as the outside world with its conventions… and contradictions, in relation to our eternal interests – and the crowd was left behind, by Jesus command.
The apostles represent the powers of the psyche, such as memory, analytical intelligence, the power of decision, affection, mediumship, the ability to synthesise, etc.
The boat is, metaphorically, the individuality as a whole, while Christ is the personification of the personality’s Divine Center, that despite being asleep in the human creature of today’s Earth, is at the stern of the vessel and not at the prow, as the sacred text reveals – that is: next to the helm of the ship of existence, to lead the soul to its evolutionary destiny.
Finally, the sea and the winds are allegories of the various difficulties and challenges that we all must face, in order to expand our conscience to new levels of complexity and depth, with a spirit of combativeness and determination, and never of slack idolatry, which becomes frightened before the Divine Power, but not concerned about engaging itself effectively in Its work.
Spiritual guides, Masters of the Sublime Plane and Jesus Himself await from us this leap of “awakening” to the “other side” of Life, as being the best side of interpretation of life’s events, of people and circumstances: in a optimistic, constructive, solidary way, and, consequently, pacifier and promoter of happiness, ours and of others.
(Received by Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar, on the dawn of October 16, 2011.)