Yep, it is indeed part of the program, well said. Sorta like an immersion process; seven dips, dunks, or plunges at the Jordan River, like Naaman the Syrian with leprosy that was healed. In reality the plunges of the immersion do not all have to occur at one time or in a single day, even though all seven are considered as the seven plunges of the one immersion, but can come to pass over great lengths of time, (though there is a final hour where everything is abridged, recapped, rediscovered, even brought to remembrance). Mariam Magdalene likewise had seven demons or devils cast out of her. Funny we never hear much about this in the Gospel preaching of the modern shepherd pulpits. By the Luke passage you have quoted, (and the Matthew companion passage) we see that indeed every man is likened to a house:
Luke 11:24-26 KJV
24. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
25. And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
26. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
This is scapegoat typology. The sa`iyr-goat twin which is chosen by lot to/for Azazel is sent away into the desert (dry-arid places) with all the sins of the people upon his mortally wounded head. His head is mortally wounded because the High Priest puts his hands upon the head of the goat and confesses all the sins of the people over the goat before the goat is sent away into the wilderness. In tradition the goat was destroyed because of the catastrophic implications if the goat were to wonder back into the camp with all the sins of the people upon its head. However we do not actually read anywhere that the "scapegoat" was to be destroyed. This is the very reason why also; for in supernal and spiritual terms, the twin goat ALWAYS returns to the man and his house with all his sins upon his mortally wounded head, (two horns like a lamb but speaks like a dragon). Moses also says so in Torah when he writes: "Be sure that your sin will find you out", (Numbers 32:23).
So then, if the first unclean spirit of the world and prince of the power of the air goes out, and then makes a compact, associating with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and then he returns to the house of the man with all the other seven wicked fellows: would it not make the first unclean spirit then "the eighth and of the seven"?
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