Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 26:5-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 26 in context

Scripture Focus

5And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

6And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

7And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

8And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

9And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 26:5-9

Biblical Context

The passage recounts tracing an ancestral journey from Syria to Egypt, enduring oppression, crying to the LORD, and being delivered into a land flowing with milk and honey.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's frame, the Syrian and Egypt are states of consciousness you wear as you; bondage is a limiting belief, a memory of separation. Your true self, the I AM, hears the cry of your present awareness and answers with divine action. The deliverance from Egypt is not history you must recreate; it is your inner shift from identification with lack to identification with abundance. The 'land' is the recognized presence of supply, nurture, and order in your own mind. The 'mighty hand' and 'outstretched arm' are the felt presence of inner power awakening, as you realize you have always been sustained by the same consciousness that brought you out. When you 'cry unto the LORD,' you are turning attention to the one light within; God sees your affliction — i.e., you see the effect of your own limiting beliefs — and responds by revealing your true state of abundance. This is a spiritual exodus: from fear and bondage to an interior promised land of milk and honey, here and now.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and narrate a brief inner history: 'A Syrian ready to perish is my past self; I cry to the LORD and awaken to the land of milk and honey within.' Then feel the shift as the new self-image takes root.