Neville Goddard on 1 Thessalonians 5:11-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Thessalonians 5 in context

Scripture Focus

11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

12And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

13And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

1 Thessalonians 5:11-13

Biblical Context

The verses invite the community to comfort and edify one another. They also urge recognizing and esteeming those who labor among them in the Lord, and to live at peace.

Neville's Inner Vision

These words are not directions to distant people, but an inner map of your own states of consciousness. To comfort and edify is to return to a settled season of awareness, a tone of inner security that makes your mind a safe home for every part. The laborers and those who lead are the inner faculties laboring in the Lord of your life—the disciplines, the guidance, the conscience that corrects and directs you. When you esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake, you are not flattering outer figures but blessing the authorities that govern your inner life, and you invite a more perfect order into your mind. And to be at peace among yourselves is the harmony of your thoughts when you recognize you are one I AM, that the many voices are being united in purpose. This is the shift Neville teaches: a deliberate alignment of your inner pictures until edification and comfort arise from your very awareness, not from external proofs.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, breathe into stillness, and assume the state of unity where the inner laborers are loved and honored. Say, I AM at peace with every part of myself, and feel the unity forming in my mind as I edify and comfort one another.