Inner Witness of Genesis 11:5
Genesis 11:5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 11 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse shows the Lord coming down to inspect the city and tower built by humanity. It signals the inner scrutiny of our collective beliefs and plans.
Neville's Inner Vision
Genesis 11:5 presents the LORD coming down to see the city and the tower built by men. In the Neville Goddard sense, this 'LORD' is the I AM, the awareness that surveys the thoughts you have invested in your life. The city and the tower are inner structures—beliefs, plans, and ambitions—concentrated in the mind as if they could reach heaven through mortal effort. When the I AM descends, it does not condemn but reveals the work of your own mind to you. Your present-day experience arises from the states of consciousness you entertain; the inspection shows what you have already sustained in your inner world. Providence is the immediate aligning presence that can rearrange the seen as you revise the inner state. The event is not a punishment but a call to unity: you are one with the Presence that builds through you, and your collective thought becomes your external order. By beholding in stillness, you learn that change begins inward, with a new assumption about your project and your power to sustain it.
Practice This Now
Sit in stillness and imagine the I AM descending into your mental city of plans. Choose a current project, revise the belief that you are apart from it, and feel it real as you declare, 'I am the Presence within this work.'
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