Neville Goddard on Ezra 5:7-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezra 5 in context

Scripture Focus

7They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.

8Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.

Ezra 5:7-8

Biblical Context

A report to King Darius declares that the house of the great God in Judea is being built with great stones and timber, and that the work is fast and prosperous in their hands.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville’s imaginative reading, the letter to the king is an outer sign of an inner decree. The house of the great God is your temple of awareness, built with the stones of fixed thoughts and the timber of steady feeling. When you declare that this work goes fast and prospers in your hands, you are not narrating a future event, you are consenting to a present reality imagined into existence by the I AM within. The king Darius represents the outer world that appears to govern, yet the true ruler sits in the silence of your own being—the I am that is peace. As you align with that I AM, the walls rise, the structure takes form, and the seeming delays melt into smooth progress. The testimony of the outer world mirrors an inner conviction: your worship is being performed in perfect order, because you have chosen to reside in the finished temple in imagination and feeling. Discipline and faith become one act of being; your inner architecture governs the outer scene.