Neville Goddard on Genesis 12:6-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 12 in context

Scripture Focus

6And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

7And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

8And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

9And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

Genesis 12:6-9

Biblical Context

Abram travels through the land, builds altars to the LORD, and calls upon the name of the LORD, receiving the promise of land for his descendants.

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 12:6-9, seen through the Neville lens, reveals that the land Abram travels is the landscape of consciousness. Sichem and the plain of Moreh are inward stations where awareness halts to behold itself; the Canaanite is not a neighbor to conquer but a thought-formed presence awaiting a shift in your state. When the LORD appears and proclaims, 'Unto thy seed will I give this land,' it is your I AM recognizing a state you are about to inhabit. The altar you build is not stone but a deliberate act of attention—an invitation to the Presence within. To lay an altar is to choose faith over fear, to name the terrain as sacred and available now. From that altar, Abram moves to Bethel’s eastward mountain, a symbolic ascent of consciousness into a wider sense of self. The act of calling upon the name of the LORD is your decision to identify with the living reality that already is. And as you journey south in imagination, you discover that the promise is not future but a present state you can claim by feeling it real.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, construct an inner altar, and affirm: I am the Presence that claims this land. Feel the reality of the promise as already true, and move forward in that consciousness.