Silencing the Inner Pestilence

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville Goddard fashion, the pestilence is not an external wound of history but a state of consciousness, a belief in separation from the I AM. Israel stands for the one mind present in you; its map from Dan to Beersheba signifies the entire field of awareness. The pestilence arises where fear, guilt, or the sense of justice apart from God reigns, and the seventy thousand are the price paid for treating life as something that can be judged and measured by forces outside the I AM. The true interpretation is that God, the I AM, is the only power; the inner drama dissolves when you acknowledge unity and return to your origin. The “appointed time” is the moment consciousness chooses to remember its oneness, to stop seeking mercy from imagined authorities, and to experience mercy as the natural state of awareness. The Psalmist’s drama becomes a reminder: align your thought with divine order, and the appearance of pestilence—fear, guilt, and separation—melts back into harmony within the one self that God created.