Neville Goddard on Ephesians 2:2-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ephesians 2 in context

Scripture Focus

2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Ephesians 2:2-3

Biblical Context

The passage recalls a past condition where people followed the world’s pattern, under a distracting atmosphere, guided by fleshly desires; it also notes that everyone shared in that former conversational life.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your true self is the I AM, the living awareness that remains untouched by the shifting 'course of this world.' The verse describes a past habit of consciousness—the sense that a dominating atmosphere or 'air' directs your steps through impulses of the flesh and the mind. But that is a dream you once believed; it is not you. By identifying with that lower state you empowered it, and it speaks through your speech, choices, and conversations. The transformation is not conquest from without, but a requalification of your inner sense of self: assuming the end you desire and feeling it real as present truth. The 'prince of the power of the air' dissolves when you cease giving it reality and recognize the I AM as your sole authority. When you awaken to your divine nature, the old pattern fades and a new life reflects your revised self-conception. Imagination creates and sustains the life you live, so choose to inhabit the inner state that already is.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Sit quietly and assume the feeling of your new self as already present—'I am the I AM.' Then imagine one simple scene in which you respond from inner awareness rather than the old lusts, letting that impression register as real now.