Neville Goddard on Genesis 13:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 13 in context

Scripture Focus

3And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;

4Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 13:3-4

Biblical Context

Abram travels back to the place of his first tent and altar, a symbolic return to his sacred state. There, he calls on the name of the LORD.

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 13:3-4 invites us to see Abram’s travel as an inner shift. Bethel is the inner sanctuary, the mind’s own address where the altar was raised in the first place. The movements of his journey mirror the soul’s rhythm when we choose to return to the origin of our faith: the fixed state of consciousness where the I AM dwells. When he calls on the name of the LORD there, he is not petitioning a distance but announcing his unity with the Presence within. In Neville’s terms, the altar is your established feeling of I AM-ness; the altar’s clay is your present belief, softened by faith until it yields to the reality already present. By returning to that inner altar and naming the LORD, Abram enters a present tense alignment: the outer scene rearranges to match the remembered state. So the path home is a deliberate revision of self, a feeling-it-real conviction that the divine is immediate here and now, awaiting your conscious acknowledgment.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes. Assume you are already at your inner Bethel, before the altar of I AM; silently say I AM, and feel the Presence settling into your body as if you never left.