Neville Goddard on Acts 8:9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 8 in context

Scripture Focus

9But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

Acts 8:9

Biblical Context

Acts 8:9 presents Simon in Samaria, a man who practiced sorcery and claimed to be a great one. This scene points to the ego's demand for external power in the inner life.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Neville lens, Simon is a state of consciousness that seeks power apart from the I AM. Sorcery is the habitual storytelling of the self that bewitched the mind with pictures of greatness centered on persona. The crowd’s response is the pull of appearances, the belief that a separate self can rule without God. Samaria is your mind’s middle ground where old patterns cling to identify a great one. The healing is to revise the scene by admitting that the power in you is the I AM, not a personality. Rest in the felt reality of oneness, and let the belief in a separate Simon dissolve. When you dwell as the one Power within, true worship arises as alignment with God’s presence, not with an external show of force.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling that you are the I AM, not the self that seeks greatness; for a few minutes imagine Simon dissolving into light and you resting in the one Power within.