Neville Goddard on Esther 9:17-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Esther 9 in context

Scripture Focus

17On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

18But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

Esther 9:17-18

Biblical Context

The verses describe days set aside for rest and feasting, turning hardship into celebration. In Shushan, the Jews gather and extend the feast across successive days, culminating in communal joy.

Neville's Inner Vision

Esther 9:17-18 is not about dates, but about the inner calendar of consciousness. The thirteenth and fourteenth days signify movements of rest and feasting in imagination, culminating on the fifteenth as the rest that is already realised. The 'Jews' are your inner faculties assembling in unity, and Shushan is the center of awareness where every thought gathers. When you decide to rest from fear and treat gratitude as already present, joy becomes a felt fact. The festival comes forth from an act of assumption: you imagine and feel the state you desire as if it already exists, and let that image draw your days into harmony. The day of rest is not idleness but a confident trust that life is governed by the I AM, by the always-available well-being within. Thus true worship appears as thanksgiving, unity, and celebratory living, not as mere ritual external to your experience.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume that today is a day of inner rest and feast—feel grateful, see yourself gathering all parts of self into one joyful center, and let that feeling of 'it is done' permeate your awareness.