Neville Goddard on Galatians 1:15-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Galatians 1 in context

Scripture Focus

15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

17Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

Galatians 1:15-17

Biblical Context

Paul states that God separated him from birth and, by grace, called him to reveal Christ in him and to preach among the Gentiles; he did not seek counsel from flesh and blood but moved into Arabia and Damascus.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, this passage invites you to see that the birth of your mission is not a dependent event in history, but a state of consciousness. God, in you, separated you from birth into a limited self and called you by grace to reveal the Son within. The act of preaching becomes the outward expression of an inward revelation, a demonstration that your inner state is now the governing reality. Do not seek flesh and blood for permission or guidance, for no external voice births the living Christ in you. Withdraw into your Arabia, the inner desert of imagination, where the old self dissolves and the new self speaks. Return to Damascus as your daily activity, carrying the Christ within as a certainty that reorganizes your world. The heathen you preach to are the unseen conditions of your mind, changing into light by your unwavering awareness of I AM here and now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the state that you are separated and graced, and feel the Son revealed in you as present reality. Practice: daily quiet, repeat, 'I AM the Christ within me now,' and visualize yourself proclaiming Him to your world.