Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 40:17-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 40 in context

Scripture Focus

17Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.

18And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

19Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.

Ezekiel 40:17-19

Biblical Context

Ezekiel describes an outward court with thirty chambers built around a pavement, and a measured breadth from the gate to the inner court. The arrangement emphasizes structure and distance, inviting a shift of inner awareness.

Neville's Inner Vision

The outward court is your waking field of consciousness, a space where appearances move. Its thirty chambers and the circlet of pavement are not external rooms but facets of mind—habits, desires, fears, duties—set around the center of attention. The measure from the outward gate to the inner court represents a widening of awareness you can yield to by imagination. When you acknowledge that God is the I AM within, you stop seeking outward signs and begin revising the interior arrangement. Assume you are already standing in the inner court, greeting each chamber as a state you intend to possess, and feel the presence there. This inner alignment shrinks distance between seen events and the unseen reality you wish to manifest. The act of measurement becomes a symbolic willingness to inhabit the state you desire, until it feels inherent and real.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume you are in the inner court now; identify one chamber as a desirable state you already possess, and dwell there with the feeling of God's presence within you for a few minutes.