Neville Goddard on Genesis 3:14-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 3 in context

Scripture Focus

14And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Genesis 3:14-19

Biblical Context

Genesis 3:14-19 presents God's judgments on the serpent, woman, and man, depicting enmity, sorrow, toil, and mortality as inner consequences of identification.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the scene is a drama of inner states. The serpent is a limiting thought, the woman symbolizes desire, and the man the will caught in separation. The curses are not external punishments but shifts in consciousness when one forgets their true self. Enmity between the serpent's seed and the woman's seed embodies the mind's clash: fear-based thought against the higher, unborn self. Bruising the head signals the decisive conquest of awareness over illusion; the heel's bruise hints at occasional slips when attention forgets its oneness. The toil, sorrow, thorns, and dust describe the outer world reflecting a mind convinced of separation and mortality. When you return to the I AM—your true ground of being—the external life rearranges itself as sign and ally of the inward shift. You are summoned back to Eden by a single act of assumption: I AM the awareness in which this scene exists, and I choose harmony, abundance, and peace.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM is the only reality. Revise the scene in your imagination and feel-it-real that you reign over your inner soil, restoring Eden within.