Matthew 8:28 · World English Bible
When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.
Crossing to the other side is the turn of consciousness away from the crowd toward the buried self, and there the awakening principle meets what has gone dead in a person. The tombs are the body itself, the flesh in which a living awareness lies entombed, and out of that hollow come 2 torn states of mind, split and warring, held by the compulsions religion calls devils.
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ESOTERIC
Crossing to the other side is the turn of consciousness away from the crowd toward the buried self, and there the awakening principle meets what has gone dead in a person. The tombs are the body itself, the flesh in which a living awareness lies entombed, and out of that hollow come 2 torn states of mind, split and warring, held by the compulsions religion calls devils. The number 2 is division, the doubled mind that cannot cross its own road. So fierce is this inner splitting that no thought can pass by that way until the higher self stands in front of it.
What is possessed is not a stranger in a graveyard but the ordinary person ruled from below, feeling awareness rise and rushing out to guard the very grave it lives in.
The other side: the far shore of the mind reached only when a person turns from the outer crowd toward what lies buried within. The tombs: the physical body, the sepulchre in which living consciousness lies shut up and forgotten. 2: the number of division, the mind split against itself and unable to pass its own road. The devils: the compulsions and fixed reactions of the flesh that seize and drive a person from below.
PSYCHOANALYSIS
The men living among the tombs who block the road are the rejected, hidden side of a person at its wildest: parts denied and buried with the dead for so long that they burst out like an alien takeover, stripping two human beings of any self they once had.
In one striking dream, a tomb holds the seed of change: bones brought out into daylight turn into a black horse that gallops off into open country, carrying what was buried toward possible recovery. These men mark the moment when the flood from below has so completely swamped the everyday self that no personal will is left, only an overwhelming force a whole crowd cannot get past. Wholeness, crossing from the far shore, comes to meet what a person has exiled among the dead.
Esoteric lens
What have I been guarding so fiercely that I never go near it?
A mind divided against itself blocks its own road. Neither half can move until you stop taking sides inside yourself.
The wound is where the light enters. What you keep guarding in the dark is exactly what wants to be seen.
The habits that drive you are not you, they are old grooves worn deep. Turn and look straight at one and it loses its grip.
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