Neville Goddard on Daniel 3:7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Daniel 3 in context

Scripture Focus

7Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Daniel 3:7

Biblical Context

In Daniel 3:7, all people hear music and bow to a golden image set up by the king; collective worship is portrayed as an outer response to inner suggestion.

Neville's Inner Vision

Daniel 3:7 shows a world of music and procession drawing every soul to bow to an external image. Yet in the language of the I AM, the crowd, the languages, the governors, and the drums are only the fluctuating states of your own consciousness. The gold image is a belief in power, approval, or circumstance outside you that would bind you. When you react with bowed head, you prove you have consented to a notion that you are less than the sovereign I AM. Remember: God is not out there behind the statue; God is I AM here in you, the awareness that names this scene and can change it by changing its content. To overturn the spell, turn your attention from the image to the perceiving I AM. Assume a higher identification: 'I am consciousness. I govern my world by the decree of the inner self.' Feel the reality of that inner sway, and let the imagined crowd dissolve into light as you live from the inner image rather than the outer.

Practice This Now

Assume you are the I AM now. When the music rises, stand firm in inner sovereignty and revise the scene: see the crowd bowing to nothing, while you remain upright; declare, 'I am, and I govern this dream'.