Neville Goddard on Mark 5:1-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Mark 5 in context

Scripture Focus

1And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

2And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

3Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

4Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

5And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

Mark 5:1-5

Biblical Context

Mark 5:1-5 shows a man tormented by an unclean spirit, bound by chains, dwelling among tombs, crying out—an inner picture of bondage and longing for liberation.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner counsel of your soul, the Gadarenes country is the field of your own mind. The unclean spirit is a belief that you are not enough, a fear that binds you, a sense of separation from your divine I AM. The tombs and the mountains are your habitual thoughts—places you haunt with old stories about limitation. The man bound by fetters represents a state of consciousness held in place by repeated impressions; the chains are thought forms that you have mistaken for reality. When Jesus steps out of the ship—your awareness arriving in a still, present moment—you confront the belief directly. Do not plead with it; acknowledge that you are the I AM, the higher self that commands all phenomena. The moment you refuse to identify with the bondage, you begin to loosen it; the fetters break because you no longer feed the illusion with attention. The deliverance is not coming from an outside deliverer, but from the inner revision: you choose the new state, feel it, and the world reorients to reflect that reality.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, step onto the shore of your inner Gadarenes, declare 'I AM' as your true self and revise the scene: 'I am free, unbound, at peace.' Then feel the feeling of liberty as if it were true now.