Neville Goddard on 1 Corinthians 15:35-38 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 15 in context

Scripture Focus

35But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

36Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

37And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

38But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

1 Corinthians 15:35-38

Biblical Context

Some ask how the dead are raised and with what body they come. The text answers by saying what is sown is not the body that will be, but a seed that awakens into a different form.

Neville's Inner Vision

Paul asks what form the dead will have, but the wiser hearing discovers the seed is a state of mind. Death is not physical extinction, but the surrender of a thought that binds you to limitation. What you sow is not the body that will be, but bare grain; so too your present consciousness is the seed of a newer life God places within accord with your inner image. The body you inhabit is not fixed by heredity, but drawn forth by the inner vivifying power you believe and feel. God gives to every seed its own body, meaning the form you awaken to corresponds to the inner life you attend to in imagination. Resurrection is not a distant event but a revision of the self in which a higher idea replaces the old one. The Spirit moves in your awareness, shaping form according to the certainty you maintain about who you are.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and declare, 'I am the seed of a renewed body now.' Visualize the grain sprouting and forming a body of light that reflects your present inner certainty.