Nurturing Your Inner Garden
Genesis 2:15 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 2 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
God places the man in Eden to tend and protect the garden; the outer scene mirrors an inner field of consciousness.
Neville's Inner Vision
Genesis 2:15 whispers to your present state: you are the I AM, and you have been placed within an ordered garden of your own making. The 'man' is your focal sense, and the 'garden' is the field of awareness you currently attend to. To 'dress' it is to arrange your thoughts, to prune what does not serve you, and to cultivate the conditions that allow life to express itself through you. To 'keep' it is to protect the arising states from inner dissipation—the doubts, the fears, the familiar stories that would tear order apart. The act of placing you there is not a decree of punishment but a vocation: you are invited to rule within your own consciousness by aligning with the I AM, the unity of all that you are. When you assume you are already in that garden as the conscious ruler, transformation occurs; your outer circumstances correspond to the inner order you sustain. Reality is your dream tended with unwavering attention.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and enter a lush garden of your mind. Select one thought to dress and one limit to keep, then imagine the scene already ordered and feel it real.
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