Inner Gate of Abraham's Bargain
Genesis 23:8-9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 23 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Abraham speaks with the community to gain Ephron's consent to buy the Machpelah cave for a burial site, agreeing to pay its price.
Neville's Inner Vision
Abraham's move is not a transaction in matter, but a conversion of consciousness. He talks of burying his dead 'out of sight' as a symbol of laying to rest memory and limitation in the inner field of awareness. The cave of Machpelah stands for a fixed place in the mind where the life of his line is preserved. The price spoken aloud is the value he places on this image, a public affirmation that the inner state is real. In Neville's law, the outer word mirrors the inner assumption. When he intreats Ephron, he is really persuading his own I AM to accept the image. Therefore the transaction is completed not by coins but by the act of assuming the state: a wealth of belonging, a burial of fear, and the restoration of dignity to the household. So the inner scene is, 'I already possess a place for memory and purpose.' As you read this, let your imagination claim that space and feel the reality now.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Assume the inner cave is already yours; feel the I AM dwelling there now, and declare, 'I own this space in consciousness.'
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