Neville Goddard on Colossians 2:20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Colossians 2 in context

Scripture Focus

20Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

Colossians 2:20

Biblical Context

Colossians 2:20 says that if you are dead with Christ to the rudiments of the world, you are no longer subject to worldly ordinances. The external rules are reflections of an old self, and your true life is in an inner, liberated consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

When he says you are dead with Christ to the rudiments of the world, he is inviting us into a decisive inner shift. The world and its ordinances are not commands from God, but projections of a mind that still believes itself separate. In truth, your life is determined by the I AM within you—awareness that never dies, which is one with Christ in your inner world. To die to those rudiments is to refuse to grant them authority over your present experience. Grace and redemption are the natural fruits of that realization: you do not earn them by rules, you awaken to them by assuming a different state of consciousness. If you still hear the old law, revise it by silent conviction: 'I am dead to the rudiments of the world; I live now in the liberty of Christ.' Practice manifests in feeling: within, imagine yourself already free, and let that feeling color your every perception.

Practice This Now

Assume the state 'I am dead to the rudiments of the world, and I live in Christ now' and dwell in that feeling for a few moments, revising any counter-claim until it is felt as real.