Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 19:5-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 19 in context

Scripture Focus

5As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

6Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

Deuteronomy 19:5-6

Biblical Context

The passage speaks of an accidental killing and the requirement to flee to a city of refuge, emphasizing mercy and accountability; hatred from the past is not held against the present offender.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, the wood-cutting scene is not a mere physical event but a movement of consciousness. The 'neighbor' represents a facet of yourself, and the felling stroke signifies thoughts that harm when you forget your true nature. The 'avenger of blood' is the habit of judgment—a part of the mind that pursues guilt and insists you must die for an error. Yet the verse declares the killer is not worthy of death, for hatred had not ripened in time past; in modern terms, you are not condemned by an old mood, but released by an inner shift. The city of refuge becomes the state of consciousness you enter when you refuse identification with guilt and choose mercy. By turning to the I AM—present, aware, all-encompassing—you separate the act from the self and permit life to flow unimpeded by fear. Mercy, then, is not given from without but realized from within as you dwell in the sovereign awareness that you are more than any single deed.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and enter the inner city of refuge as you affirm 'I am the I AM now.' Revise the scene in your mind, allowing guilt to melt into mercy and viewing the event as a symbolic movement of consciousness.