Neville Goddard on Genesis 35:13-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 35 in context

Scripture Focus

13And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.

Genesis 35:13-15

Biblical Context

God withdraws from the visible place after speaking. Jacob marks the encounter with a pillar, a drink offering, and oil, naming the place Bethel.

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 35:13-15 invites you to see Bethel within. 'God went up from him' means the divine consciousness lifts you to a higher state inside your own awareness after a contact that feels real. Jacob builds a pillar—the fixed attention you place in mind—around which devotion gathers. He pours a drink offering and oil, symbolic motions of releasing emotion and anointing perception with the truth of I AM. In this inner rite, the place named Bethel becomes your inner house of God, a doorway from outer circumstance to conscious communion. The Presence you sought is not elsewhere but in the I AM you are waking to. Faith and covenant loyalty emerge as you honor this inner temple; then every seeming event reflects your attentive state.

Practice This Now

In stillness, imagine the inner Bethel scene. Your awareness rises in the I AM as you pour out conviction and anoint perception, then declare Bethel as your inner house.