Neville Goddard on Mark 5:2-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Mark 5 in context

Scripture Focus

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 5:2-5

Biblical Context

A man under an unclean spirit dwells among tombs, bound by chains; the passage reveals inner bondage and the prospect of liberation through awakening to the I AM.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Mark 5:2-5 the man is a vivid symbol of a state of consciousness ruled by fear, guilt, and a stubborn belief in separation. The tombs and mountains are inner dispositions where such an idea has lodged; the unclean spirit is a false sense of self that says, 'I must suffer and be untamable.' The fetters and chains are not iron but habitual thoughts that feel absolute because they are imagined as real. When Jesus comes out of the ship—the presence of pure awareness—he meets the man and offers a new possibility. The power to break the fetters lies not in external restraint but in the immediate recognition of the I AM eye that witnesses the scene. The breaking of the chains signals that the bondage was mental, sustained by belief rather than truth. As you identify with the I AM, the tombs fade, the cry softens, and the sense of a separate self loses its hold. You are invited to revise the scene here and now, and thereby re-create your inner weather as freedom.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and name the bondage as a belief. Then revise it by declaring, I AM the awareness that frees me now, and feel the tombs dissolve as the chains release.