Neville Goddard on Ezra 4:9-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezra 4 in context

Scripture Focus

9Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,

10And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.

Ezra 4:9-10

Biblical Context

Ezra 4:9-10 lists Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, along with many nations—Dinaites, Apharsathchites, and more—brought over by Asnapper to be set in the cities of Samaria. The passage describes an external arrangement that Neville would reinterpret as inner dispositions placed within the mind.

Neville's Inner Vision

See Ezra’s list as a map of your inner city, not a distant empire. The chancellor Rehum, the scribe Shimshai, and their companions are the voices and habits that live in Samaria—the parts of you that have settled there by past days. Asnapper, spoken as the great and noble bringer over, is the I AM within you, the consciousness that gathers every impulse and places it in the cities of your mind. Your task to build a temple corresponds to the aligning of these forces under one quiet ruler. When you begin to revise, you do not fight the old inhabitants; you invite them to serve the temple by assuming a new order. By assuming that you are the governor of your inner city, you direct these patterns to reverberate with unity, patience, and faith rather than opposition. The appearance of opposition dissolves when you treat the mind as a city you rule rather than a battlefield. In this light, Samaria becomes a proving ground where your present consciousness reorganizes itself into harmony with the higher temple.

Practice This Now

Assume the state now: I AM the governor of my mind, and the city of Samaria is settled in peace. Revise every opposing thought into a helpful impulse, and feel it real as you allow the temple within to rise.