The Stilling of the Storm

When the blessed Master found an hour of quiet with His immediate friends, He spake thus unto them concerning the experiences through which the Soul passes when it is beset with conditions which try it:

“The Soul is like a ship upon the open Sea, when all its attributes are out of true harmony; it is tossed about upon the tempestuous waves, and is in danger of becoming overwhelmed.

The mind¹ of the Soul, which should be always calm and clear like pellucid waters, is then filled with disturbing elements, so that it cannot reflect unto the Soul the Heavens of its Lord.

Even the powers of the mind itself are so troubled that they fill it with the fear of a great dread, and make it cry out like those who are in dire distress.

For, as I have said unto you, the mind of the Soul is the Sea of Galilee; ² and the sacred little ship upon it is the Soul, the sacred Ark within which the Divine Presence abides.”

In order that they might the better remember and understand the significance of the things of which He had spoken, He told them the allegory of the Stilling of the Storm on the Sea of Galilee.

“A great Teacher³ who was sent from the heavenly Father-Mother entered into a little ship with His disciples, and launched into the Deep.

When in the midst of the Deep, a storm arose, and it grew more and yet more tempestuous, until it was so great as to almost overwhelm the boat; and fear laid hold of the disciples.⁴

But the Teacher was asleep in the hinder part of the ship.⁵

Then the disciples came unto Him in great distress, and called unto Him to save them.⁶

And when the Teacher was awakened He asked them, saying, ‘Why were ye so fearful? How was it that your spiritual vision was so easily obscured?’

‘O ye whose faith is not little, wherefore do ye doubt?’ ⁷

And the Teacher arose and spake unto the storm-tossed waters, saying unto them: ‘Peace! Let there be stillness.’

And there was the Great Silence in which the winds and the waves grew calm.” ⁸

Quotation and notes from The Logia or Sayings of the Master by John Todd Ferrier, pp 126-129. © The Order of the Cross

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¹ The mind of the Soul is the spiritual mind or higher reason sometimes called the understanding. It is the mind through which all spiritual knowledges are gathered on the way during the process of the Soul’s evolution.


² The Sea of Galilee is the mind of the Soul when it has attained a high degree of Life in its experiences. It is the Lake into which flow the streams from the uplands or mountains of Galilee, the spiritual states into which the Soul consciously enters.


³ Who is the Great Teacher but the Lord of all Being! And where is His dwelling-place but within the little Ark of the Soul? And is not the little Ark upon the great Deep, the Soul itself upon the Sea of Life’s Mystery? For the Christ of God is with us. Potentially in all Souls, He is consciously present within those who may be said to be fishers upon the Sea of Galilee, Souls who launch out into the deep, and who become conscious at times of the contrary winds or breaths blowing from the Astral realms, and the storm-spirits seeking to overwhelm them.


⁴ Souls who have not yet reached the advanced stage in their evolution when they also will launch out into the Deep, and who therefore have never known such experiences as are recorded here, could not possibly understand the profound meanings implied. The tumultuous seas, the fearful raging of the elemental spirits when besetting a Soul, the tossing to and fro of the sacred Ark of its Being upon the storm-swept waters, fill the Soul with dread unspeakable.


⁵ The Lord and His Christ in the Ark of the Soul, apparently asleep because forgotten.


⁶ The awakening within them of the memory of His Presence, the coming back into the consciousness of His power. None but He could stay the power of the elementals, and bring the little Ark of the Soul safely out of the tempest.


⁷ Spiritual perception and realization are the quintessence of Faith. It is to perceive heavenly things and enter into the realization of them. Faith is the substantial of the things hoped for, and also the evidence through realization of the Unseen.


⁸ The Great Silence is through Soul upliftment. To the voice of the Eternal One within us, the winds (the elemental spirits) and the waves (the disturbed conditions of the waters or knowledges of the Soul) are obedient. The spirits are subject to the Christs. At the coming forth into manifestation of the Presence within, all tumult is quelled, and life’s sea is changed from tempestuous conditions into one of infinite calm.