into foam and becomes roiled and disturbed and it is not strange that you cannot reflect what you wish. You must become still again. The lake must subside and the wind must calm, that perfect repose may be manifest, that you may reflect what you wish and show forth the concentration which you desire.

Christ in the Ship

The One in you which can still your mentality is the Christ-self. To try to still the wind and waves without the Christ-self is a long process with more or less sense of failure. The Christ may appear to be asleep in the ship, as we read in that story about the disciples, who were crossing the Sea of Galilee and a great storm came upon them and the ship was in danger of sinking; of how they went to the Christ, asleep in the hold’ of the ship--- not Christ really, but the form, Jesus, for the Christ is “the Lord that slumbers not, nor sleeps.” It is but the form of that Christ-presence which seems to be hidden and nonactive for a time. Your Lord-self never sleeps nor loses consciousness, but if it seems to you that you have no Lord-self, that you cannot think of yourself as divine or spiritual, then you need to arouse and awaken yourself, even with a cry of prayer, “Awake thou that sleepest!” or as the Psalmist calls, “Why sleepest thou, 0 Lord?” The disciples went and called Jesus from his sleep and he came forward and rebuked the wind and waves and all was still. So, no matter how agitated you seem to be--- no matter how roiled the waters are or contrary the wind, in an