Inner Genealogy of Being

1 Chronicles 1:1-27 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Chronicles 1 in context

Scripture Focus

1Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
2Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
3Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
4Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
5The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
6And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
7And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
8The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
9And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
10And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
11And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
12And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.
13And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
14The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
15And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
16And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
17The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
18And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
19And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan.
20And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
21Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
22And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
23And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
24Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
25Eber, Peleg, Reu,
26Serug, Nahor, Terah,
27Abram; the same is Abraham.
1 Chronicles 1:1-27

Biblical Context

The passage lists generations from Adam to Abraham, tracing families and the spread of peoples across the earth.

Neville's Inner Vision

See these names as a map of your inner lineage. Adam to Abraham is not a distant chronicle but a living sequence of states of consciousness you have inhabited. Each generation marks a habit of mind you have learned to bear—the orderly Shem and Arphaxad; the restless Ham and Cush; the broad reach of Japheth. The earth-dividing moment of Peleg speaks of inner shifts: old unities fracture, new possibilities invite a wider self. Nimrod’s boldness points to a fearless impulse to act from the I AM; the lines of Canaan and Jebusite remind you of gifts and limits that accompany every expansion. Then Abram, later Abraham, awakens a self that can choose its future by faith in its own I AM rather than inheritance. Providence reveals itself as the natural ordering of your imagination: the inner arrangement by which what you conceive becomes form. Your life, like this genealogy, is the living record of your inner states becoming present reality through sustained feeling and belief.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and trace this inner genealogy back to Adam, then declare: I AM the author of my life’s future. Revise one limitation by naming it as a current member of this noble lineage, and feel it-real now.

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