Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 10:10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 10 in context

Scripture Focus

10And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.

Deuteronomy 10:10

Biblical Context

Moses recounts returning to the mountain and enduring forty days and nights; God listens again and spares the people.

Neville's Inner Vision

All scripture is the narration of states of consciousness. When Moses speaks of staying on the mount for forty days and nights, he is describing a fixed state of awareness you can assume. The forty days are the time you devote to the inner work, the discipline of withdrawal from fear and projection, until the I AM—your essential awareness—recognizes you. The LORD hearkened unto me at that time also means your inner hearing is reliable when you persist in the assumption that the demand is already granted. And the LORD would not destroy thee indicates that the moment you dwell in this new state, destruction, punishment, or lack cannot reach you; mercy is your natural condition when consciousness rests in the truth of your oneness with God. The Mount is not a place, but a place of mind from which you observe and choose; you return to the first state—to the original I AM—and the mercy follows as a natural response of your inner being. So faith is not asking God to act; it is becoming the state in which God already acts.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare, 'I am heard by the I AM; mercy now flows toward me.' Dwell in the feeling that this mercy has already taken root in your life, as if the inner mount has spoken and spared you, and remain there until it is your lived reality.