Inner Deception, Outer Destiny
2 Samuel 13:5-6 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 2 Samuel 13 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Amnon pretends to be sick to coax Tamar into coming and serving him. The scheme reveals a manipulation rooted in appetite and power, with consequences for the family.
Neville's Inner Vision
Amnon's feigned illness is not a crime in the outer sense but a symbolic state of consciousness pretending to be sick for the sake of appetite. Jonadab's counsel is the whispering habit of thought that believes power can be used to compel a desired outcome. Tamar is the image of purity entering the theater of inner appetite. The king's arrival marks the moment when a belief seeks to act through the body, and Amnon's request sounds as if the I AM were asking permission from the body's senses to take hold. Neville teaches that the outer scene is a dream cast by inner states. The cure is to refuse the false illness, to revise the scene with the awareness of I AM, and to feel the truth that you are not a vessel for manipulation but the sole consciousness behind all events. When you embody the I AM as pure, unconditioned awareness and refuse to entertain any image of lack or use of others, the illness dissolves and a new order of relationships arises. Remind yourself: you are the author, not the actor, of every scene and every consequence.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and revise the scene. Affirm I AM the source of all I experience; I revise the impression of lack into integrity, and feel the new state as real.
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