Neville Goddard on Acts 1:9-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 1 in context

Scripture Focus

9And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

10And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

11Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

Acts 1:9-11

Biblical Context

Jesus is taken up in a cloud as the disciples watch. The two men in white tell them that the same Jesus will return in the same way as he went.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the text, the ascent is not a distance crossed but a shift of attention. The cloud that receives him is the veil of sense and form, the very medium through which the I AM passes from bondage to awareness. The disciples' steadfast gaze toward heaven marks a moment when, for a breath, they forgot their own creative power and waited for evidence outside. The two men in white—messengers—point them back to the truth: this Jesus, the Christ within, who was taken up into heaven, shall come in like manner as you think him gone. In Neville's register, this is the assuring law: consciousness itself travels out of limitation and returns as action grounded in a higher state. The promised return is not a historical event to be awaited but a present turn of mind—the Christ appearing through your own imagination as your renewed life. The kingdom of God is within; resurrection is the mind's awakening to what you already are. Let the ascension be your daily revision: refuse lack, claim wholeness, feel the Presence now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, assume the ascended state as your present reality, and feel the Presence replacing lack. Stay with that feeling for a minute and watch outer life respond accordingly.