Neville Goddard on Exodus 25:31-35 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 25 in context

Scripture Focus

31And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

32And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

33Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

34And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

35And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

Exodus 25:31-35

Biblical Context

The passage commands a single golden lampstand whose shaft and six branches bear almond-shaped bowls with knops and flowers, plus four central bowls. The arrangement expresses holiness through ordered, radiating light.

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine this candlestick as your own inner theater of awareness. The gold is the I AM in you, unaltered by fear, shaped by disciplined imagination. The beaten work symbolizes that lasting light is wrought by persistent inner practice, not by external ritual. Six branches extend from the sides, three on each, representing streams of life that spring from the center of consciousness. On each branch, three almond-shaped bowls with knops and flowers stand as the ideas or feelings you allow to mature—are you feeding them with attention, or letting them fade? In the center, four bowls echo an inner balance, a fourfold presence of mind, intuition, will, and body that can receive and reflect light when you maintain steady awareness. The knops under paired branches mark anchors of your state, repeated across the branches as a rhythm of consciousness. When you accept that the Divine Presence is the I AM within, worship shifts from ritual to alignment: holiness is your decision to keep light alive in the center and let it radiate through every branch of life.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, say I AM awareness now, and picture the golden candlestick in your chest. See its six branches bearing almond-shaped bowls, and feel the light flowing through you as if worship is already yours.