Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 3:4-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

4And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

5And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

6And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

7He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

8And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

9And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

10And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

2 Chronicles 3:4-10

Biblical Context

Solomon describes a temple lavishly overlaid with gold, adorned with precious stones, and housing the divine presence. The outer porch and inner holy place symbolize levels of consciousness; the inner sanctuary marks the location of God within, rested in awareness.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s key, the text invites you to locate the sacred within your own mind. The porch’s breadth and height mirror the boundary of your current beliefs, while the gold overlay reveals the conscious choice to saturate every facet of awareness with pure life. The greater house, cased in cedar and overlaid with gold, is your life organized by intention, beauty, and order—palms and chains pointing to steady growth under a single principle: the I AM. The nails, weighted with gold, symbolize the steadfast supports of your revelation—habit, faith, and discipline. The two cherubims in the most holy place are not ornamental; they symbolize the two faculties you must harmonize—imagination and faith—held in the presence of the divine within. This is not a memory of a temple but a pattern for your consciousness: you become the temple by gilding every room with awareness, by inviting God, the I AM, to dwell as your ongoing experience. By assuming the state of this temple, you experience the inner Presence as real now, not later.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine stepping into your enclosed inner sanctuary; feel the gold of your awareness covering every beam and wall, and declare, 'I am the temple; the temple is within me,' dwelling there for several breaths.