Neville Goddard on Genesis 2:4-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 2 in context

Scripture Focus

4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:4-7

Biblical Context

Genesis 2:4-7 describes God forming man from dust, breathing life into him, and man becoming a living soul.

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis presents the I AM at work in you, not as distant history but as your present consciousness. The dust of the ground is the raw material of your current state—the beliefs, habits, and unformed possibilities of your self. When the LORD God forms man from the dust, this is the inner act of revising your self-concept by attention. The mist that watered the ground speaks of the gentle rains of feeling and belief that rise when you entertain a new sense of who you are. And the breath of life poured into his nostrils is the I AM within awakening to awareness; suddenly the man is not mere matter but a living soul—awareness animated in form. Your life now is an image, imagined and felt into being by the breath that animates it. The scene is inside you; the outer world answers from that inner state. So when you acknowledge you are the I AM, you revise your inner atmosphere, and your circumstances begin to reflect that awakening, breathing vitality into your day.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, declare 'I am the I AM,' and feel the breath of life filling you as you revise your inner scene to embody the vitality you seek. Let that felt reality linger for a few moments.