Neville Goddard on 1 John 1:5-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 John 1 in context

Scripture Focus

5This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

1 John 1:5-6

Biblical Context

God is light and there is no darkness in Him; claiming fellowship with Him while walking in darkness is deceptive and contradicts the truth.

Neville's Inner Vision

God is light points to the nature of your own consciousness. Darkness is not a distant force but a habit of mind—fear, guilt, limitation—generated by believing you are apart from your I AM. If you profess fellowship with God and yet move as if in darkness, you are speaking a contradiction to your own life. The verse asks you to awaken to what you already are: awareness that shines from within and never entertains true shadow. To walk in the light is to align your inner movement with that light: to imagine from the standpoint of the I AM, to act as if you are already united with the divine glow. Begin by assuming a state: I am light; there is no darkness in me. When doubt surfaces, revise it: I am the light in which all darkness dissolves. The truth is not a future event but the present conscious reality you choose to inhabit. Your entire world shifts as you refuse to reside in darkness and live as the living radiance of God within you.