What is the meaning of Jesus casting out devils? - Part 5

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What is the meaning of Jesus casting out devils? - Part 5

 

And he arose and left the synagogue, and entered Simon's home. Now Simon's

mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever; and they made request of him on

her behalf. And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and

she immediately arose and waited on them. (Luke 4:38-39)[1]

 

(p.405) Diseases are due to the lack of proper operation of the conscious

beneficial forces that govern the body, and are also due to the evil forces

which consciously allow the bane of disease to spread in the body. Some diseases

are brought about by physical transgressions against the laws of health, but the

disease germs themselves are engendered and intelligently controlled by the evil

force of Satan, which tries to destroy the beautiful creation of God--the human

body. Whenever a person transgresses physically, mentally, or spiritually, a

portal is opened for a specific disease or malady to enter the body, according

to the nature of the transgression. Vibrations are generated that attract the

agencies of evil in the form of disease germs.

 

Disease germs have a dormant intelligence that at an opportune time is roused

and directed by Satan. Jesus could see the evil force that was responsible for

the introduction of fever into the body of Simon's mother-in-law, and thus he

rebuked it away and restored the harmony of health. Jesus commanded the

predominating evil force to depart from the body of the stricken woman, thus

reinstating the conscious astral forces that govern normal health. He knew all

the intelligent evil forces that create havoc in people and was able, through

his all-powerful Christ Consciousness, to talk in the vibratory language of the

fever and command it to depart from the ailing body of the woman. That is what

is meant by Jesus " rebuking the fever. "

 

All evil has some intelligence by which it works its mischief. (p.406) Note how

cleverly it insinuates itself into the mind of a person through false reasoning.

Vice takes the cloak of virtue and fools the gatekeeper of reason, and thus

enters the forbidden sanctum of virtue. Each soul is independent and free to act

according to the good influences of God and soulful qualities, or to act under

the influence of Satan's evil qualities and Satan's reflections, the devils

which obsess the being of man. While good and evil actions can be freely chosen,

after one has acted he has no free choice as to consequences. If he acts in a

good way he must receive a good result and if he acts in an evil way he must

receive an evil result. The cohort reflections of Satan in each man constantly

urge him to do wrong through the lure of temptations that appeal to his prenatal

karmic tendencies and present habits. God tries to influence a being through

conscience and soul peace found in meditation. As a free agent, man must choose

either to act under the influence of God's direction or Satan's evil

incitements.

 

The Second Coming of Christ (The Resurrection of the Christ Within

You) Volume 1, Discourse 24, pg. 405-406

Paramahansa Yogananda

Printed in the United States of America 1434-J881

ISBN-13:978-0-87612-557-1

ISBN-10:0-87612-557-7

 

[1] Cf. parallel references in Matthew 8:14-15 and Mark 1:29-31.