Paul's Inner Conspiracy
Acts 23:12-15 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Acts 23 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Some Jews banded together, cursed themselves to not eat or drink until they killed Paul; more than forty conspirators plotted as day broke, seeking the council's aid to bring him to the captain for execution.
Neville's Inner Vision
Picture this scene as a map of the inner mind. The Jews are not distant enemies but states of consciousness rising to threaten the truth you seek to embody. The curse—bound themselves under a great curse—becomes a mental vow that they can kill Paul, the inner idea of your higher self, by force. The forty-odd conspirators are many scattered thoughts that deny what is real. When they approach the captain, watch the trick: the appearance of order masks a motive to disallow direct insight. Providence, in Neville’s sense, is the alignment of awareness with its own laws: any plot against Paul exposes fear and invites a revision of the inner state. The practice is simple: you do not argue with the thought-forms, you revise your state until they dissolve. Paul cannot be destroyed because the I AM cannot be slain by belief. As you dwell in the awareness that you are ever protected by consciousness, the so-called conspiracy fades, and you stand in the luminous peace of your true identity.
Practice This Now
Practice: close your eyes, breathe, and revise: 'I am the I AM; nothing in the external scene can touch the essential Paul within me.' Feel that truth as real in your chest.
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