Neville Goddard on Genesis 19:33-35 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 19 in context

Scripture Focus

33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

35And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Genesis 19:33-35

Biblical Context

Two sisters get their father drunk so they can lie with him to preserve their family line; the next night, they repeat the act, and the father remains unaware.

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 19:33-35 presents a scene of inner drunkenness on the part of the mind—wine that dulls perception—and two impulses within the self working to secure a future by repeating an old script. In Neville's language, the father is the I AM, the steadfast awareness that undergirds every image. When he drinks, awareness sleeps; the first and second born are the two habitual thoughts that conspire to keep the old dream alive: the need to preserve seed or continuity by acting out a belief that life can only be continued through familiar patterns. The morning confession is not a moral breach so much as a revealed inner mechanism: the mind repeats the same scenario because it has not learned to trust its own power to imagine anew. The liberating truth is that all states and stories are maneuvers of consciousness, and they dissolve when the observer I AM awakens, revises the assumption, and feels the reality of infinite possibility. By recognizing that the scene is a dream, we re-script it from wish to wisdom, from limitation to liberation.

Practice This Now

In a quiet moment, assume the I AM as the only reality; revise the scene by declaring, I am awake, I need not drink to preserve life, I choose to imagine anew. Feel the truth of consciousness dissolving the old script.