Neville Goddard on 1 John 2:15-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 John 2 in context

Scripture Focus

15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

1 John 2:15-17

Biblical Context

Love of the world and its desires separates you from the Father. The world passes away, but doing the will of God abides forever.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville lens, the world John names is a symbolic landscape of consciousness, not a distant country. The lusts—flesh, eyes, and pride—are the restless movements of a mind that forgets its true I AM. When you discover that the Father is within your own awareness, you stop feeding the belief in separation and begin to live as the expression of that divine order. The world may appear to come and go, but its power vanishes the moment your inner state mirrors what is true: you are the one who does the will of God, and thus you endure as the unchanging I AM. This is not withdrawal from life; it is alignment with it. By habitually assuming that you are the will of God, you displace the old cravings and let your experience reflect an eternal, unshakable present. In this shift, what you see is not imposed by external things but invited by your own awareness into form and time.