Inner Judgment and Purity
Genesis 34:7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 34 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The sons of Jacob react with grief and anger upon hearing of a grievous act, signaling that such violation of purity is deemed wrong and not to be done within the inner circle of righteousness.
Neville's Inner Vision
Consider the outward scene as a mirror for the inner man. The field and the sons are faculties of your consciousness reacting to a belief that an act of folly has disrupted the inner Israel. When they are grieved and wroth, this is the mind’s alarm at a perceived breach in purity—an image taken as real in your present state. Yet the event is only the movement of your own imagination. You do not condemn the actor as another; you confront the belief that something in you has been defiled. The I AM, your abiding awareness, sees through appearances and revises the scene. Imagine holiness as the natural condition of the inner kingdom—the daughter is the image of your wholeness, and folly is a mistaken belief in separation. By assuming and feeling the end as now, you reestablish the boundary of consciousness and restore integrity within Israel. The anger dissolves when you recognize you command the scene by your assumed state, healing rather than retaliating.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Tonight, close your eyes and declare, 'I AM the I AM, the holiness that never leaves me nor my world.' Revise the scene to show integrity restored in your inner Israel, and feel the calm filling your chest as you accept the end as now.
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