Neville Goddard on Genesis 29:13-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 29 in context

Scripture Focus

13And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

14And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

Genesis 29:13-14

Biblical Context

Laban welcomes Jacob, embraces him, and declares kinship; Jacob stays with him for a month.

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 29:13-14 speaks not of a family reunion in time and place but of a reunion in consciousness. Laban runs to Jacob, embraces, and proclaims, "you are my bone and my flesh"—a declaration that in truth there is no otherness in you. In Neville's psychology, Jacob is a state of consciousness, Laban a projection of your outer world, and the embrace the moment when you identify with that world as parts of the same Self. When you realize the I AM that you are equals all appearances; the 'space of a month' becomes the period you dwell in this union, letting the new state saturate thoughts, feelings, and actions. Unity is covenant loyalty: you acknowledge the inner kinship and the outer world reflects that inner bond. Presence of God is the presence of your own awareness, not a distant event but an intimate relation you cultivate by assuming the state as real. Therefore, cultivate the feeling: 'I and my circumstances are one in the I AM.'

Practice This Now

Assume the state that you and this circumstance are one; revise any sense of separation. Feel the unity as real for a minute, then let it steady you into a lasting inner bond.