Neville Goddard on Esther 9:21-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Esther 9 in context

Scripture Focus

21To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

22As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

Esther 9:21-22

Biblical Context

Esther 9:21-22 establishes annual days in Adar for rest from enemies, turning sorrow into joy. It commands feasting, sharing with others, and giving to the poor as a sign of communal unity.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your mind, a decree is written: set aside days where you rest from fear and permit sorrow to bow to joy. The fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar are not dates on a calendar but states of awareness you enter by the act of assumption. The feast is the felt sense of sufficiency; the sending of portions is the art of distributing your inner riches—love, mercy, and generosity—to your neighbor in consciousness. The days of rest from enemies symbolize a quiet mind freed from inner antagonists. The month turned from sorrow to joy marks a shift in mood, a turning of your inner weather to a good day. By this inner ceremony you establish these realities as your everyday experience: imagine the feast, imagine giving to others, imagine a community united in peace, and linger in the feeling that your world conforms to this inner state. When you live from that certainty, the outer feast follows as natural fruit of your inner I AM.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and assume the feeling of a personal feast already happening; mentally send a portion to a neighbor, and feel gratitude as the proof of your inner abundance.