Neville Goddard on Exodus 2:11-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 2 in context

Scripture Focus

11And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

Exodus 2:11-12

Biblical Context

Moses sees the burdens of his brethren, acts to stop oppression, and then hides the act in the sand.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, Moses stands as the awakening I AM, stepping forth to notice the burdens in the inner kingdom. The Egyptian smiting the Hebrew represents a longstanding belief of domination by fear and separation within your own consciousness. Moses’ careful look—‘this way and that’—is the moment you test the field of your mind for witnesses to guilt or limitation. When he perceives no man, his decision to strike and bury the act signals a common but misleading step: attempting to eradicate a pattern by force and then concealing the evidence in the sand of subconscious currents. The true teaching is not violence against a past pattern but the recognition that the true delivery occurs by revision of consciousness. The ‘Hebrew’ is your real nature, oppressed only by belief; the ‘Egyptian’ is the old habit of judging and acting from fear. The law within is that you are not separate from the deliverance you seek; you are that deliverance, and the outside world mirrors the inner awakening. You are called to awaken the inner Israel, not by force, but by revised belief and fearless awareness.

Practice This Now

Assume the finished action: the oppressed within you is already free. Feel the relief as if the deliverance has occurred, and declare, I AM free now; see the inner image of Moses stepping from the sand into the light of liberation, until the feeling is real.