Neville Goddard on Mark 5:2-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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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.

6But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,

7And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

Mark 5:2-7

Biblical Context

Jesus arrives and meets a man dwelling among tombs, bound by an unclean spirit. The encounter marks a turn from bondage to worship and a cry for relief from torment.

Neville's Inner Vision

All interpretation begins inside you. The tombs are the fixed patterns of mind that think you are cut off, the fetters of fear that bind your sense of worth. The unclean spirit is a state of consciousness that negates life and makes you identify with limitation. When Jesus steps out of the ship, He is the living I AM, the awareness that can reframe any situation. The man’s rush to Jesus and his act of worship reveal a moment when attention shifts from the old self to the true self, from identification with danger to recognition of your divine nature. His cry, 'What have I to do with thee?' mirrors your resistance to a new identity; yet as insight dawns, the old self yields, and the torment dissolves as the attention is redirected to the indwelling life. In Neville’s practice, deliverance is a change of state, a revision of what you inhabit. The tombs crumble not by some external exorcist’s power, but as you awaken to I AM and choose living faith over fear, freedom becomes the natural expression of your inner reality.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In a quiet moment, assume you are already free; feel the liberty pulsing through you and declare, I AM free now. Stay with that sensation until it is the only truth you know.