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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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individuism, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> subjection <strong>of</strong> one's identity U)<br />

that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> demon might, while it lasted, be called<br />

temporary * poHseasion,' in so far as <strong>the</strong> mental<br />

<strong>and</strong> moral condition <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> person was for <strong>the</strong> time<br />

not one <strong>of</strong> freedom <strong>and</strong> origination, but in <strong>the</strong><br />

control <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> possessing demon.<br />

()n(s practiced infi^rence may even now be drawn<br />

from this somewhat abstruse discussion. <strong>The</strong><br />

language <strong>and</strong> conduct <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> demonised, whi^<strong>the</strong>r<br />

seemingly his own, or that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> demons who<br />

influenced him, must always be regarded as a<br />

mixture <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jewish-human <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> demoniacal.<br />

<strong>The</strong> demonised speaks <strong>and</strong> acts as a Jew under <strong>the</strong><br />

control <strong>of</strong> a demon. Thus, if he chooses solitary<br />

places by day, <strong>and</strong> tombs by night, it is not that<br />

demons really preferred such habitationa,<br />

but that <strong>the</strong> Jews imagined it, <strong>and</strong> that <strong>the</strong> demons,<br />

acting on <strong>the</strong> CHAP, existing conscionsness,<br />

would lead him, in accordance with his pre- ^^V<br />

conceived notions, to select such places. Here also<br />

mental disease <strong>of</strong>fers points <strong>of</strong> analogy. For, <strong>the</strong>

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