Neville Goddard on 2 Peter 1:9-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Peter 1 in context

Scripture Focus

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

10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

11For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:9-11

Biblical Context

2 Peter 1:9-11 warns that those who lack these things are blind to the horizon and forget they were purged from old sins; therefore, cultivate your calling and election with diligence, so you will never stumble and enter the everlasting kingdom.

Neville's Inner Vision

Neville reads this as a map of inner sight. The 'lacking these things' state is a self-made blindness of consciousness, a forgetting of the purging that is already accomplished in the I AM. Calling and election are not external achievements but inner alignments you secure by assumption. When you deliberately cultivate the inner qualities in imagination—seeing yourself as already purified and chosen—you dissolve the old self and open an entrance to the everlasting kingdom here and now. If you persist in the feeling that the end is done, you will never fall, for you have stepped into the reality you already are. The kingdom appears as your steady state of awareness, not a distant event, and the path is the practice of revision and feeling-it-real until it is seen in experience.

Practice This Now

Assume you are already the one called and elected; close your eyes and feel yourself stepping through a gate into the kingdom within, staying with that feeling for a moment.