Neville Goddard on 1 Samuel 6:7-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Samuel 6 in context

Scripture Focus

7Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:

8And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.

9And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.

10And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

11And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.

12And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.

1 Samuel 6:7-12

Biblical Context

The narrative sets a test: place the ark on a new cart with unyoked cows, send away the calves, and watch the cows' path to Beth-shemesh. If it goes straight, the Lord's hand is at work; if not, it was only chance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Take the ark as your I AM, the interior presence that cannot be coerced. To set it on a cart is to fashion a new instrument of awareness through which your life can travel. The two milch kine, unyoked, symbolize thoughts and desires that move freely when not yoked by fear or memory. Releasing their calves is letting go of old reactions and attachments so nothing drags the mind from its course. The coffer holding the golden mice and emerods is your choice to lay guilt, fear, and false judgments aside, offering them back to the void from which they arose. Then send the ark forth; if the kine travel straight to Beth-shemesh, your inner sovereignty has aligned with the divine purpose. If not, some part of you still credits chance over the I AM. Practice this inwardly: assume that the I AM drives the cart, and revise any belief that life moves by accident. The sign will appear as your thoughts and feelings settle into a steady, purposeful direction.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and practice: visualize the ark as your awareness, place it on a new mental cart, untie two unyoked impulses, release the calves of past habits, and watch the cart move straight toward your center.