Neville Goddard on Esther 2:12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Esther 2 in context

Scripture Focus

12Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)

Esther 2:12

Biblical Context

The verse describes a year-long purification process each maiden endures before entering the king, consisting of six months with myrrh and six months with spices.

Neville's Inner Vision

Esther 2:12 speaks of a yearly purification rite that prepares a maiden to meet the king. In the Neville lens, this 'purification' is not a ritual to appease a ruler but a state of consciousness you cultivate within. The days are inner movements: six months with oil of myrrh become six months of bathing the memory in balm—letting old judgments melt, saturating the mind with healing imagination. The six months with sweet odours are the fragrant states you prefer—gratitude, joy, and reverent expectancy—so that your inner atmosphere is fit to stand in the king's presence: the I AM that you are. The long timetable reflects disciplined attention, not time wasted. When you accept that you are the one who must enter, you realize the outer event is a picture of your inward readiness. Purity and integrity arise as you persist in imagining yourself already in the king's chamber, feeling the royal reception as your own awareness. Entering the king, then, is entering your own awakened state, which is the truth of 'Esther'—your inward refinement becoming external reality through imaginative faith.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine the self as a purified state entering the king of awareness. Repeat mentally, 'I am the I AM, completely purified, and I now enter within.'