Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 26:12-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 26 in context

Scripture Focus

12When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

13Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

14I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

15Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 26:12-15

Biblical Context

The passage describes finishing tithes to the Levite, stranger, fatherless, and widow, acknowledging obedience to God's commandments, and then asking for blessing from heaven on the land.

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 12–15 invites me to complete my yearly act of giving and to treat my inner economy as sacred: to place tithes where they feed the Levite within, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow—symbolic channels of life within my mind. In Neville's psychology, this is not ritual for its own sake but an outer sign of an inner state I choose to inhabit. I declare that I have brought away the hallowed things from my house and given them to the inner priest and to the needy aspects of my life, conforming to the commandments I hold in awareness. I do not eat of them in mourning, nor misuse them, but keep faith with the voice of the LORD my God. Then I look upward—not to a distant God, but to my I AM—asking that from the heavenly horizon bless my people and the land of my imagining, the grace that is promised as abundance. The whole is a practice in aligning action with a nourished, obedient consciousness, through which blessings become a natural expression of inner trust.

Practice This Now

Sit in silence and declare to your I AM that you have completed the inner tithing to the Levitical and needy aspects of your life. Then feel the blessing descend into your days, as if your inner land indeed flows with milk and honey.