Neville Goddard on 1 Chronicles 5:25-26 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Chronicles 5 in context

Scripture Focus

25And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

26And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.

1 Chronicles 5:25-26

Biblical Context

These verses describe the tribes turning away from the God of their fathers to the land’s gods, and God allows them to be carried away in exile. Exile here marks the consequence of disobedience and a break from their homeland.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the chronicler tells of a people who turn from the God within to follow the idols of the land. In Neville’s psychology, exile is not a distant event but a state of consciousness—the mind wandering after beliefs that separate you from the I AM. The 'spirit stirred up' by Pul and Tilgathpilneser represents the habitual thoughts that seize attention and carry it away from its divine center. The land they lose is the inner kingdom, the consciousness in which God dwells. The remedy is an inner return: refuse the lure of counterfeit gods, reaffirm the I AM as your sole ruler, and entertain in imagination the feeling that you are already at home in God. Persist in that assumed state until it feels real; then the former fences and rivers dissolve as your mind reclaims its homeland. Exile becomes a revision in consciousness, and the tribes of your mind reunite within the one inner country you never left.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and claim, 'I AM,' and imagine yourself already dwelling in the inner country of God. Hold that assumption, breathe the feeling of wholeness into every thought, and let it feel real until inner exile dissolves.