The appeased storm

Jesus never left given us to the own luck, because even on that hour, in that the fury of the waters and of the winds if it abated on the boat, he was present in their disciples' middle 

“And leaving the multitude, they take him with them, even as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him. And there ariseth a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the boat, insomuch that the boat was now filling. And he himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion: and they awake him, and say unto him, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish? And he awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” – Mark, 4:36 a 39. 

The Gospel of Mathew (8:23 to 27), Mark (4:35 to 41) and Luke (8:22 to 25) narrate in a way almost that identical one of several exceptional events that marked Jesus' presence among us: the storm that he appeased in the sea of Galilee. 

That extraordinary character was it that, since the beginning, it woke up the largest attention of all for the fact, related among their countless miracles. Around him, grew up a mixed of curiosity, surprise and mystery. The own language used by the Evangelist was to increase his mysterious and unusual aspect, mainly concerning the reprehension that Jesus did to the winds and the water: “And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.” (Mathew 8:26); “And he awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” (Mark 4:39); “And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. And he awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm. (Luc. 8: 24).

Under the light of Spiritism, however, the episode nothing contains of extraordinary, supernatural or miraculous. It is treated, just and only, of one of the many phenomena of physical effects that he accomplished and that the Doctrine of the Spirits explains as the consequence of laws that the humanity badly begins to unmask and to know.  

In the Spiritist Magazine of February of 1859 (Edicel, Editora Cultural Espírita Ltda., S.Paulo, Vol. de 1859, p. 89), Kardec refers to similar phenomena, saying: “It is above all necessary not to lose of view this beginning essential, true key of the spiritualistic science: the agent of the vulgar phenomena is a material physical force, that can be submitted to the laws of the calculation, while in the spiritualistic phenomena that agent is constantly an intelligence that has own will and that she doesn't undergo our cares”.  

Still today, the humanity's great portion ignores and doesn't understand Jesus, the reach and the reason of his arrival to the world 

Later, in Genesis (chapter XIII - item 15), it demonstrated to total inviability and unnecessary for the miracles, same when attributed to God: “However, we have for criterion of our judgment, in regard to divine things, the attributes even of God. To sovereign power he joins sovereign wisdom, whence it is necessary to conclude that he does nothing uselessly.

Why then should he perform miracles? In order to attest his power, it is said. But the power of God, is it not manifested in a much more striking manner by the magnificent whole of the works of creation, by the foreseeing wisdom which presides in the smallest as well as the largest of his works, and by the harmony of the laws which rule the universe, than by a few little and puerile modification which all tricksters known how to imitate?”

In spite of, until those that lived together more closely with Jesus they were shown haunted in the face of happened: “And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” - Mark 4:41.

Still today, the humanity's great portion ignores and doesn't understand Jesus, the reach and the reason of his arrival to the world and, mainly, the sense of the message that delegated us.  In face of that posture of authentic spiritual poverty, it appeals for his deification, in order to try to explain the existence of supernatural gifts that checks and to the which it attributes the decisive cause of the extraordinary effects that was capable to produce, because of the full and absolute domain that possessed on all the elements that the planet is composed, because of his condition of Spirit of higher category that already stepped in the soil of this the planet. 

The Spirits’ Book explains, in the subject 625, that Jesus was “the most perfect type that God has offered to man as his guide and model”.  That information, allied to those another that speak about the hierarchy of Spirits, mainly the ones that are in the annotations that they are followed to the subject 113, allow the formulation of the logical explanation for the phenomenon, especially in face of the recognized performance of Spirits on the nature, consonant lesson of Superior Spirituality, in the terms of questions 536 to 540 of the same work.

All the inhabitants of the globe do, periodically, crossings similar to that that, one day, the disciples did in company of Jesus. However, most doesn't get to see in her except your material and apparent side: a boat going of a margin for to another of a lake, of a river or of a passage of the sea. Few they already noticed that that crossing means the human being's own terrestrial existence, with their difficulties, fights and profits natural, true storms that, a lot of times, they tumble on the incautious ones and failed to protect wayfarers.

Most of Jesus' ministry was exercised in the neighborhood of lake of Genesareth or Sea of Galilee

The disciples, in spite of Jesus' physical presence, didn't also assimilate and nor they understood the true sense of that passage for the other side of the sea of Galilee and, before the storm, they were shown impotent and fearful, although phenomena of that nature were common in the place, with which were more than habituated.

From the cradle to the grave, from grave to the cradle, a systematic and unalterable itinerary exists, translated in the “naitre, mourir, renaitre encore e progresser sans cesser telle est la loi” (to be born, to die, to be reborn still and always this to progress it is the law).  They are crossings that nobody escapes, as natural consequence of cause law and effect and of divine justice, in the terms of Jesus' warning contained in the Gospel of Mathew: "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then shall he render unto every man according to his deeds. " - 16:27

Most of Jesus' ministry was exercised in the neighborhood of lake of Genesareth, or Sea of Galilee, in whose proximity if they located, among other, the cities of Capernaum, Magadan or Magdala, Bethsaida, Corazim and Gadara. Being taken as their reference own words - “But when he heard it, he said, They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick.”, Mathew 9:12 - it can be deduced that the inhabitants of that area were the most lacking of his aid, in spite the natural difficulties in assimilating their lessons and examples. 

The choice of marine crossing, seemingly unnecessary or consequence of a your mere whim, and the storm that, soon after, he got up before the boat, probably provoked by him because of his origin and superiority on the elements of nature, they were episodes used to test the disciples' faith, in face of the terrifying show that a phenomenon of such order usually carts. The result, as he sees himself of the evangelical narratives, it was not the most exciting. Their more assiduous and close companions gave an eloquent testimony that they still had not learned, as much as we didn't also learn still, to face the storms of life and unprepared were revealed and desperate due to the obstacles and difficulties characteristic of terrestrial existence, crying out: “Teacher, carest thou not that we perish?” - Mark 4:38.

His answer, before reprehending the winds and the sea, was in the sense of questioning them regarding his faith: “Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?”- Mathew 8:26. 

That, truly, means that he never left given them to his/her own luck, because even on that hour, in that the fury of the waters and winds if it abated on the boat, he was present in their middle.

Only a condition was imposed for the Consoler to inhabit in us and be with us: the fidelity to Jesus' teachings

The same happens with us. In time some of our disrupted and criminal existences, the Messiah relegated us to our own destiny. He promised to be always near us, it drew us a road and an itinerary, of which unhappily stood back and we created the storms that we don't know how to face and to win. That presence, always constant in the evangelical message that the men insisted on not to know or to depreciate, it was done more it executes to count of middles of the last century, when he came true, thanks to the herculean work of Kardec, the promise contained in John's Gospel: “If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, [even] the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.

But the Comforter, [even] the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.”  - Jo. 14: 15 a 17 e 26.

Only a condition was imposed for the Consoler to inhabit in us and be with us: the fidelity to the teachings that Jesus delegated us, what implicates, unfortunately, the increase of our trust and the acquisition of an unshaken faith, since stepped on in the reason and in the logic, indispensable factors to our ethical-spiritual evolution. 

It was for that, after dialoguing almost with Tomé and Filipe, that they were revealed fragile, inconstant and ignorant, as much as all the humanity, he answered them and the answered all the ones that are put still in the men's of little faith group that: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father.” - Jo. 14:12.

Storms, thunderstorms, windstorms and hurricanes, storms and storms of every kind integrate the everyday of the inhabitant of the planet.  They are almost always the result of his action in the past, close or remote, in reason of the inevitability of cause and effect law.

In Heaven and Hell, Alan Kardec faces the subject in the Penal Code of the Life to Come, whose norms are synthesized in three beginnings:

“1º. Suffering is a condition of imperfection.

2º. All our imperfections and all our misdeeds (which are the pratical outcome of those imperfections) find their appropriate and necessary punishment in their own natural and inevitable consequences - just as every excess is punished by the malady which is caused by it, and as idleness is punished by the disgust of life to which it leads - without the need of any special sentence being passed on each particular fault of each individual.

3º. Everyone has the power of freeing himself from his imperfections through the exertion of his will; everyone, therefore, is able to avoid the sufferings that are the consequence of those imperfections and to ensure his future happiness.

Such is the law of the Divine justice; "To each, according to deeds done by his body:" a sentence which receives its execution both in the spirit-world and upon the Earth..” (Heaven and Hell - chapter VII, item 33.)

Then it is inferred, therefore, that, in the measure in that the man develops, it will transform his crossing in a softer task, and the danger of being swallowed by the waves that get up before him will decrease progressively. That task will only be able to be accomplished and his purpose will only be reached when the Gospel changes in his main code, whose rule golden, basic, indispensable and absolute is and it will always be the love.