Luke 4:35 Meaning Jesus Rebuked Him

What seems to possess a mind is only the loud voice of fear, and it is silenced not by struggle but by a quiet word of authority. "Hold thy peace" is spoken to the ego, and it obeys because it has no real power of its own; it only borrows the strength the mind lends it. The final convulsion, the throwing down, is fear's last show of force before it loses its grip.

And it hurt him not. This is the point often missed: when the illusion leaves, no true damage remains, because nothing real was ever taken. A mind restored to peace finds itself whole, as though the terror had been a dream from which it simply woke.

Devil: the loud voice of fear that seems to possess the mind but borrows all its power and can leave no wound

He speaks to the thing itself and not to the man. That is the whole move: the pain is addressed as separate from the person it had been speaking through. Most human beings carry such an accumulation, an energy that takes them over and acts as though it were them, feeding on unconsciousness. Told to come out, it rises once more and thrashes hardest just before it loses its hold.

And it hurt him not. Old pain cannot survive full awareness. Unfed by thought, the flare has nothing left to grip, and the turmoil passes through without damaging what a person is.