Bela's Inner Lineage Reimagined
1 Chronicles 8:1-5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Chronicles 8 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
1 Chronicles 8:1-5 presents Bela, Benjamin's firstborn, and his sons, detailing a line of Bela's descendants in the tribe of Benjamin.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within the scriptures, names are not merely labels but states of consciousness awakening in the mind that knows itself as I AM. Bela, the firstborn of Benjamin, and his offspring appear as an inner family of dispositions, each bearing a particular vibration of awareness—Addar, Gera, Abihud, Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, Gera, Shephuphan, Huram. When read through the mode of imagination, the passage becomes a map for reassembling the interior world. The I AM, dwelling as your central awareness, is the parent who “begat” these branches, not as a distant genealogical fact but as the living act of consciousness giving birth to its moods, memories, and habits. The repetition of Bela’s line—each name following Bela—suggests that our present inner life is a continuity, a family of states that can be rearranged by a deliberate assumption. To use this as Neville would: imagine Bela and his sons as facets within you; declare that the entire line is unified under one ruler, the I AM, and feel the spontaneous harmony of all these elements functioning as one aware organism. The feeling of unity makes the outer world follow.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and imagine Bela as the central I AM—your core awareness. See his sons as distinct inner states, then revise by affirming they are one in the I AM and feel that unity as your immediate experience.
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