Neville Goddard on 2 Peter 1:8-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Peter 1 in context

Scripture Focus

8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

2 Peter 1:8-9

Biblical Context

The plain sense is that if these inner qualities abound in you, you will not be barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; those who lack them are blind, cannot see afar off, and have forgotten that they were purged from their old sins.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this text I hear a map of consciousness. These things are not external duties but inner states you cultivate by your assumption. When they abound you are not barren but fruitful in the knowledge of Christ, the awareness that you are the I AM made manifest as life. The knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ becomes intimate knowing of your own awakened self, not a distant doctrine. To lack them is to be blind, seeing only the horizon of fear, unable to glimpse afar off because the mind clings to a stale self image. Forgetting that you were purged from old sins signals the habit of memory, the refusal to release the past and re create the self in the light of the I AM. The remedy is simple: revise your sense of self by entertaining these virtues as already present in consciousness, feel their reality now, and watch as the outer world aligns with your inner vision.

Practice This Now

Practice: Assume you are already abounding in these virtues and revise your self-image to match. Then feel the truth of it as real and rest in the inner knowing of Christ within.