Inner Births and Selfhood

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville Goddard sense, this passage is not about genealogical succession but about inner births within consciousness. Tamar represents the receptive awareness that holds a seed of possibility. Each name—Er, Onan, Shelah—marks a successive state of consciousness that emerges as you entertain and hold a desire in imagination. The first birth signals the initial quality you ascribe to a wish; the second deepens or tests that quality; the third, Shelah, is the gathered state ready for expression. Chezib becomes your inner ground, the mental space where the completed birth takes place through steady attention and feeling. The scripture invites you to observe inner movements and their naming, recognizing that life unfolds from within your awareness as you practice formation and assumption. When you treat the birth as already accomplished in consciousness, you align with the state you seek and bring reality forth from the invisible into the visible by the power of imagination.