Neville Goddard on 2 John 1:5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 John 1 in context

Scripture Focus

5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

2 John 1:5

Biblical Context

The author recalls that the command to love is not new but from the beginning, urging believers to love one another in unity.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the elder's words come not a future decree but the memory that the 'new' commandment is no commandment at all to a mature consciousness. The beginning is the awareness that I am, and my neighbor is another facet of that same I AM. When I behold love as a state of awareness, not a rule to enforce, I stop seeking externally and begin living inwardly. John writes of loving one another because in truth we are one field of life. To 'love' is to consent to the unity that already unites us, to revise any thought of separation, and to feel the other's joy and pain as my own within the I AM. Obedience becomes effortless when obedience is to the truth of my own consciousness—that I am love, and I am loving now. In this light, 'the lady' is the inner atmosphere of the heart that recognizes every being as another form of the same divine self, and the community blooms as a harmony of states that acknowledge their shared origin.