Neville Goddard on Genesis 35:14-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 35 in context

Scripture Focus

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 35:14-15

Biblical Context

Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where he spoke with God, poured a drink offering and oil, and named the site Bethel.

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 35:14-15 invites us to read Jacob’s encounter as a map of consciousness. The pillar is not a stone you carry, but a fixed state you have chosen to inhabit; the drink offering and oil symbolize the free outpouring of feeling and the consecration of awareness. When Jacob declared the place Bethel, he renamed the inner site of communication, turning a moment of divine speech into a lasting disposition. In Neville’s language, God is the I AM within—your awareness that can be measured not by geography but by the quality of your attention. The act of pouring a drink offering and oil is the moment you stamp your inner temple with faith: you are choosing to dwell as the speaker and the witness simultaneously. The promise implicit in Bethel—the presence of God—becomes your ongoing experience as you hold to this inner posture, regardless of outward events. Practice this inner altar until the encounter feels continuous, not a memory, but a living state of awareness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and claim: I am at Bethel within. Pour out gratitude as the drink offering and anoint awareness as the oil, and stay in that steady presence while you speak and listen inside.