When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, “This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.”
Disciples: the willing thoughts through which love extends itself, the channels that carry the gift from its source to every part of the mind.
Christian Psychology lens · Mark 8:6
He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.
One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.
His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.
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The power to heal is not conferred as a strange new ability but awakened as something the mind always held once it stands with love. What is called unclean is simply the thought of fear, and to cast it out is to withdraw belief from it, for a fearful thought has no strength except the strength a mind lends it. Every sickness answers to this, because every sickness begins in a mind that has agreed to suffer.
So the healing given here is really an authority remembered. The mind that has chosen love discovers it can refuse fear its welcome, and in that refusal the whole array of ills that fear invents finds nothing left to stand on.
The disciple resting against the breast is that part of a person drawn closest to the heart center, where the inner Christ is seated. The bosom is the chest, the seat of love and of the higher feeling, and leaning upon it is the state in which a faculty of the man rests in union with his own highest self rather than in the noise of the head.
The one so loved is not favored above the rest by accident. It is the receptive, feeling nature that lays itself against the heart and so draws its life directly from the source within.
It is the last night, an upper room in Jerusalem, and eleven men sit with a teacher who is about to leave. He tells them that soon they will not ask him for anything; they will ask the Father straight, in his name, and receive. A name here is not a label. It is one of the ways the One lets himself be known: Giver, Merciful, Opener. To ask in a name is to ask through the face of God already turned toward you, so the asking is part of the answer. Until now they have not asked this way, and he wants their joy full, because the whole of creation came out of a longing to be known and loved.
He says he has been speaking in pictures, and the hour comes when he will speak plainly of the Father. But plain words are forms too. Every showing wears a veil, since the naked Real cannot be stared at. The pictures and the plain speech pour from one source, and what changes is the eye, not the Father. In that day he will not need to carry their request, because the Father loves them himself. No middle man is left, for the One is nearer to a person than the vein in his neck.
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D. mean all who worship the Lord and hve according to the truths of his Word. A. R. 325.
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