Neville Goddard on Genesis 2:21-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 2 in context

Scripture Focus

21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Genesis 2:21-23

Biblical Context

God causes Adam to sleep, then Eve is formed from his rib; Adam recognizes her as part of himself and names her Woman, signaling inner wholeness.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this moment of Genesis, the deep sleep is a gracious turning away from the old sense of separation. The I AM within God causes the ego’s egoic story to pause long enough for the inner counterpart to emerge. Eve is not a foreign addition; she is the feminine principle formed from the rib of consciousness—your own life-blood expressed as a complementary half. When Adam declares, bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh, he is not naming a distant event but acknowledging a truth already present in awareness: there is one life, one substance, one consciousness expressing as both man and woman. To name her Woman is to affirm the inner unity you have resistively sought outside. The entire scene reveals that all relationship, all wholeness, flows from a single I AM, and the outer world merely mirrors this inner agreement. As you meditate, dwell in the felt sense that you and your beloved are one, and allow the inner union to manifest outwardly as the reality you already know in consciousness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe into the stillness, and assume the feeling that you are already complete in the inner union; then imagine Eve stepping toward you as your own inner counterpart, and affirm, I and the beloved are one.