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A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity1020
of the Living God, have mercy upon us, and drive away the unclean things
that we have allowed to enter into us.”
The Gospels say nothing regarding the cause of this demoniac obsession,
and the preachers prefer to pass over it rapidly, or else to treat it as a
delusion of the insane, notwithstanding the direct statement of the New
Testament narrative and its sequel or concluding statement. But the occult
traditions have it that these two men were victims of their dabbling into
certain phases of psychic phenomena, i.e., the “raising up of spirits” by the
arts of Black Magic. In other words, these men had been experimenting
along the lines of Jewish Necromancy, or Invocation and Evocation of
Disembodied Astral Intelligences by means of Conjuration. They had raised
up Astral Intelligences that had then refused to retire to their own plane,
but which had taken possession of the physical organisms of their invokers
and had remained in possession, causing the men to be regarded as maniacs,
which resulted in their becoming outcasts among the caves with which the
cliffs abounded, the same places being also the tombs of the dead. We do
not wish to go into details here regarding this matter, but we wish to give
the occult explanation of this little understood “miracle” of Jesus, which,
however, is clearly understood by all occultists.
Jesus fully understood the nature of the trouble, and began at once to
drive out these invading Astral Intelligences by means of his occult power.
In a few moments, a cry was heard from the hills near by, and a great herd
of swine were seen rushing down the hill, and in a moment were over the
precipice and were soon drowned. The Gospel narrative is perfectly plain
on this subject—it states that the legions of devils had passed from the men
into the swine and the latter had plunged in terror into the water and were
drowned. Jesus had distinctly and positively spoken to the demons, calling
them “unclean spirits,” and bidding them “come out” of the men. And all
advanced students of Occultism understand why the pigs were used as
intermediate instruments of the driving back of the Astral Intelligences to