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

Read 1 Kings 6 in context

Scripture Focus

5And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:

6The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

1 Kings 6:5-6

Biblical Context

Solomon built chambers around the temple and the oracle, encircling the sacred space with room after room; the design created a surrounding framework while keeping beams from being fixed into the walls.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the structure of 1 Kings 6:5-6, the walls and chambers symbolize the architecture of the mind. The temple and the oracle sit at the innermost center, while the surrounding chambers represent evolving states of consciousness or moods that encircle one’s awareness. The provision that beams should not be fastened into the walls reveals a key Neville insight: do not anchor your reality to outer conditions or external supports. Rather, the true beams are inner ideas, feelings, and decisions placed by the I AM within you. The three successive widths—five, six, seven cubits—suggest increasing capacity to contain Presence; as you cultivate attention and reverence, your inner field expands to hold greater reality. When you approach your inner sanctuary as the architect, you invite the Presence of God to dwell as your I AM, shaping experience by deliberate imagination and steadfast feeling. Your world responds to the alignment you maintain in consciousness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Assume you are the architect of an inner temple; envision chambers around the central I AM and feel the surrounding atmosphere already aligned by consciousness. Then revise any lack into presence and dwell in the sensation of it real.