Neville Goddard on Daniel 2:31-35 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Daniel 2 in context

Scripture Focus

31Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

32This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

33His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

34Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

35Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Daniel 2:31-35

Biblical Context

Daniel portrays a great image built from metals; a stone cut without hands strikes its feet, shatters the image, and the stone becomes a mountain that fills the earth. It points to an enduring inner reality beyond external powers.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the image as the whole of your outward self—its gold of pride, silver of opinion, brass of ambition, iron of habit, and clay of dependence—standing before you as a symbol of what you think reality must look like. The stone cut out without hands is not a future cause you must work for; it is a shift in consciousness, a recognition that the I AM you are aware through is the agent of change. When you affirm, 'I am the awareness that witnesses this dream,' the stone begins to move. The image shatters at the feet, and the wind carries the fragments away, not as defeat but as release from illusion. In that moment you discover that the inner reality already exists, waiting to be acknowledged. The mountain that emerges is the Kingdom of God within you, not a distant reward but a present order taking form in your life. As you dwell in this felt sense, your thoughts, feelings, and actions align with an unshakable peace that transforms circumstances from the inside out.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and assume the feeling of the Kingdom now. Visualize the old image dissolving as the stone within you rises to fill your world as a mountain.