Neville Goddard on Ephesians 5:12-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ephesians 5 in context

Scripture Focus

12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

13But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

Ephesians 5:12-13

Biblical Context

The verse declares it is shameful to speak of secret acts, but what is reproved becomes visible through the light; light is that which makes hidden things known.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of this verse as a statement about your state of consciousness. The world’s secret acts and quiet motives are not external sins but inner dislocations of awareness. When you identify with the I AM—the awareness that perceives all—shame softens, and secrecy loses its grip, because light is simply consciousness revealing itself. What is reproved in the mind is not judged by a harsh court but brought to wholeness by inner illumination. In Neville’s language, the 'light' is your own imaginative faculty awakened to its own truth: whatever you imagine with certainty exists in your inner world first, and thus in your outer life. Therefore, the shameful things are not real truths but misqualified states that become visible as you assume a different inner posture. By choosing to inhabit the belief that you are the light, you invite every hidden motive to appear as a color on the canvas of consciousness, and you discover that the hidden is only cleared when seen. Your practice is to continuously affirm your I AM as the light that makes manifest.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume you are the light that illuminates all. Feel it real that every hidden motive is already seen in your I AM; revise a past secret by imagining it as clearly illuminated and integrated.