Neville Goddard on Acts 6:9-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 6 in context

Scripture Focus

9Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

10And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

11Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

12And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

13And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

14For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.

Acts 6:9-14

Biblical Context

Stephen faces a council as challengers from a diverse synagogue dispute with him; they cannot resist his wisdom, then hire false witnesses to accuse him of blasphemy against Moses and God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within me there arises a scene of dispute between old laws and living truth. The 'synagogue of the Libertines' represents scattered thoughts clinging to form; the 'wisdom and the spirit' Stephen embodies is the I AM shining through imagination. I assume the state of unwavering witness, and I revise the scene: the accusers rise, but their charge loses its power as I refuse to identify with it. The council and false witnesses are but my own doubts acting out; by greeting them with the awareness that I create reality through I AM, the crowd's tumult subsides and truth establishes the new order in consciousness—the 'holy place' and the 'law' become living, dynamic expressions of the I AM.

Practice This Now

Assume the state of unassailable wisdom now; revise the scene in your mind so accusation dissolves; feel-it-real by breathing into the chest and declaring, 'I am that I AM'.