Neville Goddard on 1 Samuel 6:13-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Samuel 6 in context

Scripture Focus

13And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

14And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.

15And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 6:13-15

Biblical Context

The people rejoice at the sight of the Ark, offering sacrifices; the Levites then place the Ark on a great stone as a sign of reverence and order in worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

The Bethshemite field becomes your inner life where the Ark appears as the I AM within. The cart is your outward thought-world bringing its own energy; cutting the wood and offering the kine is your surrender of habitual means to a higher order. The Levites set the ark and its gold on a great stone—an unmovable anchor of consciousness—so Presence becomes a known fact rather than a tentative omen. The burnt offerings reflect daily acts aligned with the divine state you awaken to; true worship is the alignment of every activity with this inner reality. When you acknowledge the I AM and permit old patterns to fall away, the Presence rests in your life as a tangible, felt-real truth, and your imagination confirms it as your lived experience.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and assume the Presence now. Picture the Ark resting on a great stone inside your chest and sacrifice one old habit by thanking it as you invite a new order to exist in your awareness.