Seed, Duty, and Inner Law
Genesis 38:8-10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 38 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Judah instructs Onan to marry his brother's widow to raise up seed for the brother; Onan knows the seed would not be his and deliberately spills it on the ground, displeasing the LORD, and he dies.
Neville's Inner Vision
In the inner kingdom, Onan’s act exposes a state: a consciousness that would claim duty yet avoid its true fruit. The 'brother' represents a prior state of awareness you carry; the wife is the womb of possibility within you. When Onan goes in to fulfill the injunction yet spills the seed 'on the ground,' he evades the obligation to create new form from that inner germ. God—the I AM that you are—disapproves because you cannot half-seed creation. The lesson is not about law as history, but about your own inner covenant to bring forth new states. If you withhold the seed, you withhold vitality and stagnation follows. The cure is to hold the inner seed as sacred, to consent to its birth, and to imagine it as already realized. Do this and you align with the divine pattern: your consciousness becomes fertile, and form follows the fruit of your inner conviction.
Practice This Now
Take a moment to revise: I am the bearer of the next inner state; I plant the seed and feel it real as the present fact.
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