Neville Goddard on Acts 1:12-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

12Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.

13And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

14These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

15And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

16Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.

17For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.

Acts 1:12-17

Biblical Context

They return to Jerusalem and gather in an upper room with Mary and Jesus' brothers, in prayer and unity. Peter then points to Judas as the one who fulfilled prophecy and was counted among them.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the acts of the early company are not records of external events but the unfoldment of your own inner state. Jerusalem stands for your center of awareness, and the mount Olivet is a rising of consciousness that you must pass in imagination to descend into a calm inner room. The upper room where they gathered represents a stabilized climate of unity in which every faculty—Peter, James, John, and the rest—are aligned in prayer with Mary and the brethren. When Peter speaks of Judas, know that the Holy Ghost speaking through David is the same living I AM speaking within you, guiding what you have counted as loss into a fulfilled ministry. Judas is not a separate past figure but a belief of separation that you allowed to run its course until it serves the whole. The number around you, about one hundred twenty, is the complete mind assembled in harmony. In truth, you are the fulfillment of that scripture already, and your inner scene repeats until faith is felt real.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and enter the upper room in your mind, feeling all your faculties united in one accord. Revise any sense of loss as the fulfillment of your inner ministry, and feel the scripture already complete in you.