When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the LORD
shall lift up a standard. (ISA59:19)
The gospels tell of an instance where Jesus, walking on the
waters of the sea (of Galilee) in the midst of a boisterous
storm, approached his disciples' ship, and almost went by, but
they called-out to him, to discover his identity, whether a
ghost, and he replied and came to them. John adds an
interesting insight to the telling: he records that earlier
when Jesus had orderly fed the multitudes from a
few loaves and fishes supplied by a young lad, whose receptive
attitude toward sharing his God-supplied catch upon loving request
to the greater good of his people Jesus approved,
the people had wanted to make him (Jesus) king. This is a vital
point, for Jesus retreated up the mountain, having sent the
multitude away: he did not want to be a king over friends and
neighbors, but over the elements of mortal mind, and of the
Earth. So after his disciples left, too, by boat, Jesus relived
that sweet, exalting, adulation, not wasted on Earthy lusts:
from his higher vantage he looked-out over the breeze-ruffled
sea, and noticed a course where the waves blew shallow (as
Moses had done a thousand years earlier at a shallow reed swamp
(or fresh-water bay) beyond the northern end of the Red (Reed)
Sea). Stepping-out then across the waves, not of humanity's
upheld hand but of mortal mind purified of error and fear, he
walked quickly, buoyed-up, held-upright by that pure adulation
of spirit manifested earlier over the crowd of those thousands
of listeners, partakers, and healed folk; and he walked reassured
through its clamorous, stormy, collective breath of praise.
Now, as Jesus approached the ship, Peter requested Jesus bid
him come to him on the water; Jesus said, come. The same
adulating crowd of waves gathered at Peter's feet. But alas,
Peter was uncomfortable and wary of not-so-handy waves,
impetuous but slow to act once there, for he feared to leave
Jesus and follow his own Christ-course, and being heavy
trained-up against (the) adulation, began to sink into their
stirred mucky sand subsurface; and he called to Jesus a second
time. This time Jesus reasserted his anointing of Peter (later
chosen to head his church), by reaching-out and holding Peter;
again the adulating crowd of waves met Peter, and he walked
stepping across the muck quickly with Jesus until they entered
the boat. And immediately the clamorous winds of praise ceased,
and the adulating crowd of waves calmed: the storm had never
really been a storm, but remained only so long as Jesus was
watching the crowd of waves for its telling shallows. And the
boat itself then hit bottom, for without Jesus' weight they
could not tell shallow from deep water by floating; and all
their vigorous paddling had not been against contrary winds but
into the stiffer muck below, for they discovered they were
already at their destination: such a joke on themselves they'd
played-along-with ... so they told everyone how Jesus had
surprised them so silly, for we all seem to live superficially,
yet Jesus showed us how shallow is material belief, and how
much progress we're really making spiritually.
It is also interesting to note that this same chapter, John:6,
next contains Jesus' least understood explanation: he told the
people (the Jews) to eat his flesh and drink his blood; and
many turned away, for the years had been lowering to drought,
the lake (sea) run low, and the people murmurred for fear of having no
good planting in the Spring, for harvest. Indeed, Jesus
feeding the multitude proved to them that they could survive
the summer if they would but listen to him (not eat him). But a
careful reading shows that Jesus was watching nature again,
and his authority over weather: beginning with the true (the
whole) bread (the balancing fluffy cloud) of life, the inspired
soul of life, coming down to Earth like the fine misting rain,
blessing blossom, bud, and leaf. But eventually if one has not
caught-on to this natural necessary inclination to spiritual
thinking, refreshment, blessing like showers, then as with the
broken cisterns of Jeremiah's lamentings which held no water,
the freshness of the spirit hits human belief (in clay powers)
and loses its appeal: the rain turns the soil to muddy puddles:
the spirit of Christ seems to become a fleshy pool of blood
(that is, flesh and blood obscure the Christ in the spiritual
understanding or Life, by seeming to be alive with it, as must
necessarily be the case because the Christ does not return void:
it does reach the flesh and blood, and replenish it, as does
the rain, and it does refresh the spiritual understanding, or
higher discernment of man), and if you want it then, if you've
not caught-on yet, if you didn't catch it in early childhood,
then, scoop-up the mud, eat the flesh and blood - well, you
don't really ... you 'cook' it, you let the puddles soak into
the soil, you let the pools swell and run into rivulets, and
into streams and lakes, and there you may again drink it fresh
and sweet ... strike the rock, dig and drill deep the well -
but if you don't get it there, it gathers into salty seas, and
to a different kind of animals mostly. See, his whole story was
not grotesque but spiritually inspired by nature's own workings
and supplies. Indeed it also foretold that they who did not
catch-on at first would slay him for what little they might
find (and remember, at the crucifixion there spilled forth
water mingled with blood). And thence that would flow into
rivulets and streams that would refresh his church (as
Catholicism has been that muddled spirit-in-the-flesh, as
muddy-water-everywhere after the rain, with the flesh and blood
of martyrs, till the flow ran pure) and thence to the wider
currents of Truth, leading to the settling lakes of a broad,
regular, pure Christianity (ruffled with protestant clamor of
rejoicing for that purity) and ultimately to the rise of the
beast (living creature) of Christian Science at the golden
shore of the peaceful sea of Love, salty with DANIEL's increase
of knowledge.
We may append a few notes here, that, Jesus told Peter that
when he was old he'd be carried-about where he might not wish
to go - a little of that stormy versification, but meaning,
Peter would be carried wherever that breath-of-praise took him,
wherever that exalting adulation carried him, for indeed, Peter
was Jesus' designated Earth-shepherd (Jesus himself being not
of this world, and having other folds, and being sent-on to his
next assignment). Also, second, Jesus walked on the fresh water
lake, not the (other) salty water (Dead Sea) lake in Judea - he
left the salty ocean of accumulated dissolved intellect for
Peter (and us) to prove later in the flow. (Recall St. John's
REVELATION of a new Earth where is no more [deep] sea, and his prior
yearning REVELATION:10(1) of an angel with one foot on land
(island) and one foot on sea, and holding a pound of salt
tasting like honey: the word LIBRA, or TEKEL, meaning, a book,
a balance, a weight, a unit-pound, as of a Roman soldier's
salary of salt - exiled on an island in the Mediterranean Sea,
St. John could 'taste' his freedom to also walk upon that salty
sea: sweet as honey, but bitter in the belly to drink it or sink in).
[We must note here in closing that the plausible actual
would become speculative if we merely imagine what persons
may have done, said, meant ... the importance is in the
demonstration of the Christ Science: not to rediscover
that which is today abundant, but discern and live it]
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historical, democratic. The syllabus is the ALMS Program:
Astronomics, Linguistics, Mathematics, Systematics: Scientific
inferentiation on Holy Biblical Scripture: What actually happened.
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