Neville Goddard on Genesis 13:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 13 in context

Scripture Focus

5And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

6And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

7And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

Genesis 13:5-7

Biblical Context

Abram and Lot travel with great wealth. The land cannot bear them together, so their herdmen quarrel.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville perspective, the land and the wealth are not separate enemies but symbols in a single state of consciousness. When Lot and Abram, two faces of the I AM, amass abundance, their attention splits and the mind feels threatened by the other's prosperity. The land that cannot bear them is a sign that the inner sense of security has not yet consolidated into one sovereign condition. The strife of the herdmen is the inner clash between two notions of possession: mine and yours. The cure is not to diminish wealth but to align every desire with the truth that God is the only substance and that you already dwell in that oneness. Imagine you and Abram sharing the same I AM, so the land becomes spacious enough for both. When you assume that your life is completely under divine governance, the appearance of conflict dissolves, and peace expresses itself as the natural state of your inner kingdom.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise the scene: assume you and the I AM dwell together in the land of your consciousness; feel the peace now, as if the herdmen's quarrel never existed.