Faith on Moriah Mountain

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville Goddard frame, the story is not about a father yielding to a decree from a distant deity, but about a shift in your own inner state. Isaac stands for the living idea you have most cherished—the dream, the self image you believe is essential to your identity. The mountains of Moriah symbolize the higher ground of consciousness you are asked to climb by your own I AM. When God says Take now thy son, you hear a command to seize hold of the inner image and, in the same breath, to let it go as a fixed dependence. Abraham's reply Here I am is the moment of awake acknowledgment, a decision to align with the higher truth rather than the old assumption. The burnt offering is not a murder but a relinquishment: you sacrifice your attachment to the appearance of lack or limitation, trusting that the I AM will provide a substitution or ram in the form of a new realization. The test is complete when you can feel that the fulfilled state already exists in consciousness.