Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 3:27 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 3 in context

Scripture Focus

27Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

Deuteronomy 3:27

Biblical Context

Moses is told to ascend to Pisgah and view the land, yet he may not cross into it. The message, for Neville, is that the promised land is an inner state to be imagined and felt into reality, not a future external conquest.

Neville's Inner Vision

The verse speaks to a rise in consciousness, not to a geographical journey. Get thee up into the top of Pisgah is a summons to the highest vantage point of your I AM, where you may survey your life from the end you desire. Lift up thine eyes westward, northward, southward, and eastward and behold it with thine eyes means to imagine the desired state with such clarity that it stands before you now, within your mental field. The Jordan you are told you shall not cross marks the boundary of the old self and its conditions—the outer world will not reveal the land until your inner state has changed. In Neville's psychology, the land is a state of consciousness you already possess by imagining it into being. Your covenant is loyalty to the I AM; obedience is the steady practice of feasting on the imagined end until it governs your sensations and choices. The outer demonstration will follow from the inner preparation.

Practice This Now

Practice: Close your eyes, ascend to Pisgah in your mind, vividly behold the land in every direction, and affirm, 'I have already crossed the Jordan in consciousness.' Then allow the feeling of having arrived to linger for a few minutes each day.