Genes and the Inner Genesis
1 Chronicles 1:1-4 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Chronicles 1 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
It records the early genealogies from Adam to Japheth, anchoring a sense of ordered descent in humanity. Seen through ordinary understanding, it's a list of names; through Neville's lens, it's an inner map of states of consciousness.
Neville's Inner Vision
All scripture is a record of consciousness, and this list of names is not distant history but an inward procession of states you entertain. Adam begins as the primal I AM awake in the flesh; Sheth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth are successive dispositions your mind adopts as it moves through life. The order of the genealogical line mirrors the order you impose on your experiences when you assume a stable state of awareness. Rather than relics in a book, these names are the inner qualities you consent to as real. When you dwell in the awareness that I AM, you unify these names into a continuous living line, and your present perception is formed therefrom. The dignity celebrated in the text—humans made in the image of God—becomes your own recognition that you are the Imago Dei, a creator of possibilities by the measure of your awareness. Refrain from seeking elsewhere; revise your memory and present experience by the sole act of occupying the I AM and feeling its reality.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, assume the I AM is tracing your inner lineage from Adam to Japheth; feel each name as a quality you embody now. Then revise by declaring, 'I am the living line of creation,' and let a present moment feel real as if it were your origin.
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