Neville Goddard on Esther 4:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Esther 4 in context

Scripture Focus

3And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

4So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.

Esther 4:3-4

Biblical Context

Across provinces, the Jews mourn, fast, and weep. Esther learns of the distress, and Mordecai refuses the garments meant to comfort him.

Neville's Inner Vision

Spiritually the decree is a mental outer circumstance and mourning is the movement of a mind convinced of lack. Esther is the awareness in the palace of the mind; Mordecai's sackcloth is the stubborn old self clinging to grievance. When the queen grieves yet tries to cover the old state with outward gifts, it reveals that outer acts cannot heal an inner belief. The inner work begins by revising the inner decree: assume that the condition has already shifted, and feel the truth of peace. Let the garb you clothe Mordecai with be a new inner attitude, recognizing worth, releasing the sackcloth, and settling into the certainty that the kingdom is governed by your I AM. The diffusion of lament into the palace becomes a call to awaken inner sovereignty, to act from the assumption that the desired change is present, not future.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, enter the inner palace, and assume the new decree as already true: the situation is resolved and you are at peace; then feel the relief as if it has already happened.