Immediate Burial of the Curse
Deuteronomy 21:23 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Deuteronomy 21 in context
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Biblical Context
The verse commands that a body not remain on the tree overnight, but be buried that day, so the land is not defiled.
Neville's Inner Vision
To the awakened I AM, the hanging body stands not as a corpse but as a stubborn state of consciousness you have left unaddressed—fear, guilt, or a sense of condemnation. If you dwell on it, you poison your inner land; you make your consciousness ride with a curse that defiles your inheritance of peace. The command to bury it that day is a call to finish the story you have been telling about yourself. When you treat the appearance as real, you identify with it and forget the truth of I AM within you; when you bury it—declare it finished in imagination—you revoke the belief that you are separated from God. Your land or inner kingdom then becomes undefiled again, available as a dwelling place for creative living. The death of the negative state is a new beginning; the end is established by your present awareness. This is the practical harmony of scripture: act inwardly, and your outward world follows your assumed end.
Practice This Now
Practice: choose a lingering negative thought; close your eyes, assume the feeling of your true I AM and imagine sealing that thought in a tomb of light today, then affirm 'My inner land is undefiled and I live from the end.'
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