Quiet Power in Lawful Assembly
Acts 19:36-39 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Acts 19 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage urges quietness and restraint, directing disputes to be settled by lawful authority and a lawful assembly rather than rash action.
Neville's Inner Vision
Here you stand as the I AM, and the riot you see in Acts is a mirror of the inner clamor for idolized power. The injunction to be quiet is not weakness but the discipline of consciousness that refuses to allow imagination to run riot before the inward court has spoken. Demetrius and the craftsmen are not villains; they personify thoughts that cling to a conditioned idol—perhaps fear, pride, or appetite for control. The warning that the law is open and there are deputies speaks to your own inner laws and authorities: when a dispute arises, there is a lawful process within your consciousness by which it may be examined and settled without striving. To inquire concerning other matters, you are told, must be done in a lawful assembly—your disciplined inner council where truth, reason, and unity decide. By abiding in this inner order, you align with the I AM that governs all; you do not chase shadows, you let your vision cohere into peace and unity.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Assume now that your inner city is governed by a lawful assembly. Quietly revise every impulse to rush; dwell for a moment in the feeling, I am the I AM that adjudicates truth, and peace follows.
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