who were afraid, “Why are ye fearful? Have ye not yet faith?” —Mark 4:39-40.

How could He command the wind and the waves and compel them to obey? Only by knowing the truth, that all is in God’s One-Consciousness, but that there is nothing harmful or destructive there, and then seeing what is truly there—Peace and Calm, and holding to this truth until it comes forth into actuality in the outer.

The truth is, God, being All in all, and all being in His Consciousness, no one can drown, or be hurt or die in His Consciousness, for He is eternally alive in all His expressions—and therefore all eternally live and are sustained, supported and fed by His life, His Love and His Power.

This is again proven by Jesus’ knowing the truth about Jairus’ daughter and Lazarus. To the girl He said, “Damsel, I say unto thee, rise!” And straightway the damsel rose up and walked.” —Mark 5:36-42. And to Lazarus whose body had begun to decay, He said, in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth! And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes.” Jesus said unto them, “Loose him, and let him go.” —John 11:39-44.

Jesus not only knew that man does not die; that God is all that man is, and therefore man is eternally alive; but He knew that man exists only as an idea in God’s Consciousness—but a perfect idea that persists, grows, unfolds and expresses what God intends unto eternity.

Therefore, neither the damsel nor Lazarus were dead, but had merely withdrawn as manifest ideas into inner planes of consciousness. Jesus knowing this—truly knowing it—had only to command the damsel idea to “rise up,” and the Lazarus idea to “come forth” again into the outer consciousness of the human mind where He then was. And because He knew they could obey and He “saw” them there with Him, they were there.

WHAT DOES all this mean and imply? Only that to possess Jesus’ power of knowing the efficacy of truth, one must have (1) a clear and unquestioned knowledge of the law underlying and causing all outer expression, (2) a perfect power and ability to make use of the law at will through a perfectly trained mind, and (3) to know the results will always be as desired when “speaking the word,” or when mentally directing action.