Neville Goddard on Exodus 22:19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 22 in context

Scripture Focus

19Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 22:19

Biblical Context

Plainly: the verse condemns surrender to base, animal impulses. In Neville's terms, it signals the death of a lower self and the birth of a higher awareness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Plainly, the letter speaks of a death sentence for lying with the beast. Yet in Neville's reading, the beast is not an external creature but a state of consciousness: unbridled appetite, fear-born impulse, the habit of identifying with impulse. To lie with it is to align your awareness with a lower self, to mistake sensation for reality. The death is the symbolic dying of that state—an inner conversion where you refuse to feed the illusion that you are diminished by craving. Your true self, the I AM, is the observer and creator. When you assume the feeling of the I AM, you revoke the beast's claim on your life and awaken to a sanctified sense of self—clear, pure, and awake. The law asks you to separate from contamination by desire and to remember your divine nature as the author of your experience.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, recall a recent impulse you judged as base, and revise: I am the I AM; I am above that impulse; I choose holiness now. Feel the truth of being the observer of your thoughts until the impulse diminishes.