Neville Goddard on Daniel 6:7-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Daniel 6 in context

Scripture Focus

7All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

8Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Daniel 6:7-8

Biblical Context

Daniel 6:7–8 records a royal edict forbidding prayer to any god or human for thirty days, with execution in the lions' den for breach, and declares the decree unchangeable.

Neville's Inner Vision

Daniel 6:7-8 is not about kings and lions alone but about the inner king you call I AM. The governors and princes in the text are inner faculties—habits, beliefs, and memories—that have agreed to a firm decree: pray only to the outer world, bow to appearances, and silence the inward hunger for communion with God. This 'law of the Medes and Persians' represents an unalterable mental belief in limitation: that some power above you in the world can bind your prayers and dictate what is possible. Daniel’s act of prayer, despite the decree, is the decisive shift: he does not argue with the outer law; he affirms the inner reality of God as the only king. When you acknowledge the I AM as the sole ruler, the decree becomes a surface agitation, like wind against a shield. The lions’ den is the trial that reveals whether you truly trust your inner king. The practical truth is: imagine and accept the inner law of God now, and the outer decree loses its force because you have rewritten reality from the inside out.

Practice This Now

Assume the inner reality now: silently declare, 'I am the I AM; God is the only king of my life,' and feel that truth as you would feel a warm light settling in your chest. For 2–5 minutes, dwell in the scene of the lion’s den as a symbol of outer threat, yet know you are protected by the inner decree.