Esoteric Meaning Behind Jesus and Apostles Crossing Lake to Other Side

When reading this and other scriptures, it's worth bearing in mind that such verses were compiled by highly evolved minds, souls who themselves attained to the Miraculous levels of consciousness presented here.

Mystical in essence, this particular verse is not about 12 men and a skipper getting in to a wooden boat and rowing frantically across to the other side of a physical lake.

The events of this verse are played-out deep within each soul.

When cognized spiritually, this verse presents the supreme lesson in soul alchemy, a spiritual platform for launching the asleep soul unto conscious eternity.

With an open mind, then, let us set sail now for this other side, to the latent magnificence resident within each of us -- paraphrasing esoterically as we voyage along.

Mark 4-35 "On the evening of that same day, Jesus said: let us go across to the other side of the Lake".

"Jesus said" is referring to the innate higher authority within each soul.

"On the evening of that same day": "evening" meaning settling of mental activity in preparation for crossover or Passover. "same day", meaning, moment of actual crossover.

"Other boats were there too": accumulation of world conditioning forming the spiritually asleep state of mind.

So, WHERE physically is this other side, and WHAT specifically is this boat?

Boat, in this instance, is referring to the lower-self or carnal mind in need of transformation or, aligned cosmically.

So, getting into the boat of lower-self is about bringing pure conscious awareness to bear upon the carnal mind state and the surrounding feeder faculties which are also rooted in spiritual ignorance.

As mentioned earlier, this entire scripture takes place within the overall person in terms of mind, body, spirit.

So, with this perspective in mind:

What are the mechanism faculties used in getting the human soul to the other side?

The answer is, the Apostles.

But, who or what are these 12 apostles?

The apostles are inner faculties representing the 12 aspects of the human personality, the human soul, which, on coming into this world, are non-developed spiritually. Thus, the apostles at this stage -- in the boat of lower-self -- are spiritually asleep in matters of divine correspondence.

Hence, when Jesus awoke from slumber at the back of the boat - awakening soul potential -- this signifies awakening the inner aspects unto serving spiritually. It's how lower-self status commences journeying to the other side, thereby familiarization in divine standard of consciousness.

The 12 apostles are also referred to in Scripture as the 12 tribes of Israel, the 12 baskets or the 12 cranial nerves located in the brain.

The reality is, from birth, there are twelve undeveloped aspects of every soul in need of spiritual awakening, and that these aspects are to be developed for the expression of good ONLY - the opposite of carnality.

The 12 aspects of soul -- the apostles -- are:

Faith, strength, Wisdom/discernment, Love, Power, Imagination, Understanding, Will, Order, Zeal, Renunciation and Life conserving.

These then are our God-given faculties -- innate potentials of the soul -- which crossing to the other side aims at establishing in consciousness in our daily life.

Now, how do we cross this lake?

Transcendence

The term 'trans' is Latin for 'cross' over, therefore, going to the read this article  side is referring to transcendence, crossing the mire of spiritual ignorance unto higher awareness within our own consciousness.

Transcendence takes awareness beyond the lower-self, beyond the struggles of everyday life -- beyond the Jordan River -- to the level of 'milk and honey' consciousness, that is, transitioning unto our Higher Self.

But, most pivotally, transcendence takes consciousness into previously unexplored realms of Self. By unleashing a surge of bliss, transcendence miraculously changes the inner mental landscape which takes mind-brain to higher levels of cosmic consciousness, thus triggering empowerment of the 12 potentials or faculties simultaneously.

The Crowd

Mark 4--36 states: "so they left the crowd".

'Crowd' here does not mean crowds of people. Esoteric crowd represents confusion, inner conflict, emotional thought patterns, stressors and worries - the human psychological condition.

In this context, crossing to the other side commences with 'crowd' calming, taking the agitated mind out of repetitive thought recycling to the activity of 'no-mind' - cessation of thought-flow.

The Storm

Mark 4-37 says "Suddenly a storm blew up", meaning, loss of emotional poise to anger flare-up.

Mark 4-38 "Jesus was sleeping on a pillow" at the stern of the boat. In other words, inner Christ awareness was absent in our daily affairs.

"the disciples woke him up and said, Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?" meaning, without input of higher spiritual awareness into the human condition, the inner aspects -- the apostles -- die spiritually.

The term Teacher refers to In-tuition, teaching from within, or the Holy Spirit in action.

Jesus replied, "have you still no faith?"

Faith here is not a set of dogmatic belief systems. Faith, rather, is come upon, it's not imposed intellectually from outside sources.

Faith, experientially, presents as free flowing silence within, which, when come upon, reflect as free flowing life, or faith. In other words, free flowing faith happens when not Impeded by lower-self.

'Jesus stood up and commanded the wind and waves': "be still - be quite", meaning, conscious use of divine authority with conviction: giving conscious direction to life in faith, with commitment, thereby not surrendering emotional poise to habitual ignorance convenience, for such is how lower-ego thrives.