Neville Goddard on 2 Corinthians 5:2-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Corinthians 5 in context

Scripture Focus

2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

3If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

4For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

2 Corinthians 5:2-4

Biblical Context

We groan in this mortal tent, longing for a heavenly house so we are not found naked. The goal is not to be unclothed but to be clothed with life.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the apostle speaks in symbols: the body as a tent, the ‘house from heaven’ as a transformed state of consciousness. In this inner reading, the groan is not anxiety about fate but the restless urge of a soul longing to awaken to its true clothing—the I AM aware presence that clothes itself in form. You are not waiting for heaven somewhere out there; heaven is a dimension of awareness that already belongs to you. The 'mortality' you fear is the old sense of separation from life; when you assume the feeling of your heavenly garment, you cease being the one who is naked and begin wearing the life that never dies. Practice a daily revision: feel as if you are already clothed with a radiant, heavenly life; let this impression swallow up your former sense of lack. The moment you entertain the deeper self as your present reality, the old body-image recedes and life expands, swallowing mortality in the light of your I AM.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, close your eyes, and repeat, 'I am clothed upon with the heavenly house,' while imagining a luminous garment wrapping your form; dwell in that feeling for a minute, then let it settle into an ongoing sense of life.