The Gospel of Mark tells the story of a blind man living in a village in Bethsaida who was healed by Jesus. Until then, all right, one more miracle, life that goes on, all religions will comment on this fact, extol the wonderful power of the son of God and so on.
However, there is something curious in this passage, because Jesus, in order to cure him, demanded that he leave the village and after performing the cure, recommended that he not return to that place anymore. Now, would Jesus be blaming the environment in which the blind man lived, the village, for his disability? It's not logical.
Has any religion looked into the occult and initiatory sense of this passage? What would this village be in this small passage from the Gospel of Mark?
An investigative look at these events, introducing elements of modern psychology, could open new interpretive horizons. For Psychology, biblical passages, myths, religious characters and many gods and demigods from the most varied pantheons are representations of man and the countless components that are part of the dynamics that surround the human condition.
Jesus, within this narrative, could be the representation of the Self, the blind man, the representation of the ego and the village the world. Blindness could only be cured when the person interested in the light (ego) left the village (world) and became aware that he should not return. Realize that the image of the blind man, representing the one who does not know the light, is perfect and, in the same way, the image of Jesus representing the force that constantly leads us towards enlightenment and calling us to renounce the influence of the environment, appears in this context. as a clear representation of the Christ Self that exists in each of us, an instance also known as the Self, Higher Self, Divine Essence, etc. The village, in turn, symbolizes the world, but the world of illusions that was very well represented by the Matrix in a Hollywood movie.
Leaving the village is simply leaving the world. Now, how to get out of the world? Would we have to take our own life? No way, that would just bring a lot more suffering. To get out of the world, it will be necessary to face it, because, as Fernando Pessoa teaches us, through one of his most beautiful poems, we have to cross Bojador to go beyond pain.
We need to live in the world without suffering so much from its influence. Ramakrishna teaches that the boat can be in the water, but the water cannot be in the boat.
We can therefore live in the world, but the world must not live within us. Leaving the world, therefore, is simply living in it without allowing it to live within us. The big problem is that we magnetize all external occurrences, all the events of existence, all the phenomena captured by the senses with importance and meaning and this has been the reason for our blindness, because everything that we give importance remains alive inside us. , producing the blindness that surrounds us.
Our Self – representation of the great Master that exists within each being – works incessantly for the development of our notion of reality and to him must be credited all the difficulties and obstacles that arise as tests in our lives, for our development. He wants us to face our own shadow, illuminating it, for there is no other way to become an enlightened being than by illuminating our own shadow. The shadow is an archetype that represents our ignorance and we can attribute to it the source of all our ills. Ignorance creates beliefs and conditioning, we can only free ourselves from this slave condition through knowledge.
Our ego, blind from Bethsaida, will even have to abandon the darkness imposed by ignorance, leave a life embedded in the gears of a world of illusions and seek the silence and solitude of an environment outside the village.
Trapped inside an industrial platform, chained by a monetarist culture, we will never understand the real meaning of the true vision of reality. However, the great consolation is knowing that the Nazarene works, incessantly, for our rescue.
