Neville Goddard on Exodus 26:1-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 26 in context

Scripture Focus

1Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.

2The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.

3The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

4And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

5Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.

6And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

Exodus 26:1-6

Biblical Context

Exodus 26:1-6 commands the making of a tabernacle from ten curtains of linen dyed blue, purple, and scarlet, joined in two halves and bound by loops and gold clasps to be one sanctuary.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your mind, the tabernacle is not a tent of fabric but a figured temple of consciousness. The ten curtains are ten states of awareness—blue for truth and heavenly order, purple for authority and crowned mind, scarlet for sacrifice and remembrance—woven with linen purity. When you join five curtains to five, you are training the mind to operate in union, while the loops of blue and the gold taches bind each state to one another. The cherubims embroidered there represent the imaginative faculties that guard and animate your inner world. The cry 'it shall be one tabernacle' is an invitation to unify every department of your psyche under the I AM presence. By imagining this structure, you are not building a house for God outside you, you are erecting the inner condition that allows God to be seen as your own I AM becoming your life. The outward world then mirrors the inward unity, for imagination creates reality when believed.

Practice This Now

Assume you are the master builder of your inner tabernacle; in imagination align the ten curtains into one shelter, feel the loops binding them, and declare, 'I AM.' Breathe and rest in the certainty of that unity.