Neville Goddard on 2 Peter 3:6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Peter 3 in context

Scripture Focus

6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

2 Peter 3:6

Biblical Context

Peter recalls the ancient world perished in the flood; the passage points to the death of old patterns when consciousness shifts.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of 'the world that then was' as the long-formed pattern of your own mind—the stale identity you carried about who you are and what is possible. The flood that overflowed those beliefs is the stirring of consciousness when you awaken to the truth of the I AM within. The waters rise from within, not from a storm over distant lands, and they sweep away the old image you clung to. In that moment of inner revelation, the old world perishes so that a truer order can take its place. Providence and creation are not distant acts of history but ongoing effects of your inner state. When you refuse to defend that old image and instead align with the feeling of the I AM, the climate of your inner room shifts. The inner flood cleanses by dissolving attachments to lack or limitation; it invites a new awareness that you are the authority, the Imagination, and the witness. As you dwell in that sovereign awareness, the outer world will reflect the new inner order you have established.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, assume the state 'I AM' as your only reality, and feel the old self dissolving beneath a cleansing inner flood. Dwell in the sense that a new world already exists within you.