Neville Goddard on 1 Chronicles 25:13-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Chronicles 25 in context

Scripture Focus

13The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

14The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

15The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

16The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

17The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

18The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

19The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:13-19

Biblical Context

The passage lists seven groups of twelve assigned to worship families, signaling an orderly distribution of service within the inner temple.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your inner temple, these lines invite you to see a pattern of divine governance, not a census of outward lineage. The 'sixth to Bukkiah' and the successive names are quiet symbols for seven stations of consciousness under the I AM. Each station yields twelve channels of expression, suggesting completeness and steadiness rather than excess. When you imagine this arrangement, you are not copying ancient ritual but recognizing how your own mind can circulate devotion through every faculty—memory, imagination, speech, action, feeling, understanding, and will—so that none dominates at the expense of another. Providence here is a gentle law of order, setting the right work for each part of you, so your life can sing in harmony rather than discord. As you dwell on this, you awaken to the truth that you are the conductor of your inner choir: by aligning these seven faculties under one purpose, you secure a reliable channel for guidance, protection, and fruitful outward expression. The inner distribution becomes a rehearsal for living from the I AM, here and now.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine seven inner houses, each with twelve faithful servants, arranged in perfect order by your I AM. Silently affirm, I am the I AM; I arrange within me an orderly worship, and I feel the unity of all faculties aligning.