Neville Goddard on Acts 12:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 12 in context

Scripture Focus

6And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

7And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

Acts 12:6-7

Biblical Context

Peter sleeps in a prison with guards nearby. An angel of the Lord appears, a light shines, his chains fall, and he is told to arise.

Neville's Inner Vision

Peter’s night in prison mirrors the ordinary man’s state of consciousness: a sleep under the 'locks' of fear, the two guards of doubt, the unyielding door of habit. The angel that comes is not a distant visitor but the light of awareness, a messenger from the I AM that awakens you to your true liberty. When the light shines, shadows vanish; when the angel speaks, Arise, you rise into the realization that your chains were belief, not iron. The falling chains symbolize the release from the story you have told yourself about limitation. In Neville fashion, the miracle is inner: a sudden act of assumption that you are free, right now, in this very moment. The prison does not govern you; your awareness governs your experience. So you welcome the light, you obey the inner command, and you step into the new state in which the door is but a perception and the way out is the decision to live from your omnipresent, omnipotent I AM.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in stillness, imagine you are Peter waking in the inner prison; see the light enter, feel the chains fall, and say quietly, 'I arise now into the freedom of my I AM.'