9 But he began to ask him: What is your name? And he said to him:
My name is Legion, because there are many of us.
10 And he entreated him many times not to send the spirits out of
the country.
11 Now a great herd of swine was there at the mountain
feeding.
12 So they entreated him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we
may enter into them.
13 And he permitted them. With that the unclean spirits came out
and entered into the swine; and the herd rushed over the precipice into the sea, about
2,000 of them, and they drowned one after another in the sea (Mark 5).
A Legion is 6,000 men. So there were 6,000 demons in the man and then there were 3 in each pig presumably if they distributed themselves evenly. The demons were happy to have a 6000th of a man but not happy to have a third of a pig. The demons deliberatley killed them pigs in order that they re-enter Tartarus. So Tartarus is better than being a pig but worse than being a 6000th of a man (as these demons found out on entry into swinedom). Presumably all 6,000 demons got input from the man's senses but only one controlled his actions. This account gives us some idea of how awful Tartarus and Gehenna are.
Looking at this positively, we see that the demons in these pigs must have had a modem link to their memories and other mental capabilities which remained in their angelic bodies whilst their spirits were in the pigs. The scriptures relate how the dove descended on to Jesus, and the bears ate the children calling Elijah bald, and Daniel stopped the mouths of the Lions, and the donkey spoke to Balaam. Even the frogs, the locusts and the gnats are subject to angelic control. So animals can be angelically directed and they can be demonically possessed. They are directed via the heavenly modem links into their minds. The power of these links is commensurate with the power of their minds.
The same must be true for humans, for the scripture says...
7 You made him a little lower than angels; with glory and
honor you crowned him, and appointed him over the works of your hands.
8 All things you subjected under his feet. For in that he
subjected all things to him [God] left nothing that is not subject
to him. Now, though, we do not yet see all things in subjection to him;
9 but we behold Jesus, who has been made a little lower than
angels, crowned with glory and honor for having suffered death,
that he by God's undeserved kindness might taste death for every [man] (Hebrews
2).
We are a little lower in mental capability than the angels, so when they possess us, they form a heavenly modem link to their angelic bodies which retain theri mental faculties. But this is not a remote possession, the spirit of the angel truly does enter into the human. But they can access their angelic minds through a heavenly modem link. Hence we read...
5 Keep this mental attitude in you that was also in Christ
Jesus,
6 who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a
seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God.
7 No, but he emptied himself and took a slave's
form and came to be in the likeness of men.
8 More than that, when he found himself in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself and became obedient as far as death, yes, death on a torture
stake.
9 For this very reason also God exalted him to a superior
position and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other] name,
10 so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in
heaven and those on earth and those under the ground (Philippians 2).
Jesus the human was a slave of his heavenly angel. This angel emptied itself of its spirit, but the possessed human could take advantage of the mental powers of the angelic mind. This shows that, from a spirit standpoint, we are not different from angels. But we are inferior in information processing capability.
So at any time the angels can feed us information and guide us through our heavenly modem link. Regrettably so can the demons in certain circumstances. Angelic or demonic guidance is related to angelic or demonic possession because both involve the heavenly modem link. In the former the link is used to control the spirit of the human, in the latter the link is used by the spirit of the angel to access his mental processing capability.
When a man is born again he gains an associated angel but he does not become more intelligent because his angelic brain has not yet been turned on - we think.
Physiologically, each human and mammalian brain is divided into two halves. The left half is logical and conscious, called the mind in the bible. The right half is emotional and houses the subconscious, called the heart. The heart is where the heavenly modem link must lie since we are unaware of it directly. All LW bible researchers know that great bible understandings normally follow very soon after someone has asked God to bless the research meeting for more on the heart and mind see U257. For more on the heavenly power struggle over your modem link see U261.