Song of Mark, Phase Twelve: A Great Storm

PHASE TWELVE

A GREAT STORM

Section I--Ship of Fools
(Sunday even, the twenty-sixth day of March)

_A_ ND I saith to my disciples, that same lunar day, darkness not having come: Let us pass over to the other side, and sail to Bethsaida, so that while there, perhaps we can eat supper in peace.

02 And sending the people away, the eleven who were also with me, taketh me even as I was in the boat. And there were other boats following us.

03 And there arose a great squall of wind, that is common to this area of the sea, so that they fought against the swirling currents, and the waves beat into the boat as the tempest raged on.

04 And I was in the back of the boat, sleeping with my head upon the bucket; and my disciples awakened me, and said: Teacher, doth it not concern thee that we are sinking?

05 And rising up very slowly, I rebuked them for rocking the boat, and trying to calm them down, I saith aloud: Be still you fools! Drop the sails and cut the bow heading into the wind. But they would not be stilled, so that the boat was filling up with water faster than I could bail it out.

06 And lacking courage, they said one to another: Let us row quickly back to Genez`areth, while we still can see where we are going.

07 And I saith unto them: Why are you so fearful of the wind? have you no faith that it will pass?

08 And they feared exceedingly, for many of Levi's disciples were not skilled boatmen, and in the impending darkness they feared drowning. For none of them, not even Simon-Patsar and James and John knew how to walk upon the water: [That is to say, in the English, they knew not how to swim].

09 And not knowing that I was a master boatmen, and an excellent swimmer, they said to me: Who then is this, that he thinks that both wind and sea will obey him, captain of our fate?

Section II--The Evil Within

10 And calling Levi's disciples together, I saith unto them: Hear ye me all, and understand; there is nothing from within that entering into a man, can destroy him, unless it be fear itself. But the evil vices which come from inside a man, those are they that destroy a man.

11 And when we returned to the sea-side of Alepheus, and had come into Levi's house again, my disciples, Simon-Patsar and James and John, asked me the meaning of this gutless parable.

12 And answering, I saith unto them: So are you also without this kind of knowledge concerning the seven spiritual chakras? Understand you not that everything from nature, be it wind or sea, entering into a man cannot destroy him because it entereth not into his heart chakra, but passes through the stomach and then goeth throughout the digestive system instead.

13 But I saith unto them in private: The vices which come out from a man, they destroy him. For what do you think? that John died from eating locust and wild bees? or was he killed by lascivious men instead.

14 For from within out of the gall of men proceed hateful thoughts, adultery, incest, murder, theft, jealousy, treachery, deceit, lust, wanton eyes, blasphemy, foolish pride, and drunkenness.

15 All these Herodian Vices come from within a man's gall. They are those which destroy a man, and not his lack of faith.

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