Inner Diet of Clean Consciousness

Deuteronomy 14:11-20 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 14 in context

Scripture Focus

11Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
12But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
13And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
14And every raven after his kind,
15And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
16The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
17And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
18And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
19And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
20But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Deuteronomy 14:11-20

Biblical Context

Verse 14:11-20 draws a boundary between clean and unclean birds, declaring what may be eaten and what must be avoided. It presents purity rules as a model for discernment in daily life.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this inner economy, the birds symbolize the tenants of your mind. Clean birds you may eat indicate you welcome thoughts that nourish your sense of I AM—confidence, patience, faith, and creative perception. The birds named as forbidden echo the instinct to digest fear, limitation, guilt, or agitation; those are the unclean 'foods' you must not feed your inner atmosphere. The decree is not about birds but about discipline: you determine the diet of your awareness. When you truly dwell in the I AM, you discover that imagination is not a trick of future gratification but a present, ongoing act of creation. You are the observer who chooses the imagery you consume; by assuming the state of abundance, health, or peace, you cause the world to reflect that state back to you. So the repeated practice is to revise your inner menu: declare, 'From this moment I eat only what nourishes my divine nature.' The inner scene, held with feeling, becomes the outer scene you experience.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, declare 'I am the I AM; I choose what I feed my mind,' and revise a recent anxious thought into a nourishing one, then feel it-real by imagining the new thought resting as a clean bird on your inner table.

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