Inner Inheritance and Bethlehem

Genesis 48:6-7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Genesis 48 in context

Scripture Focus

6And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
7And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
Genesis 48:6-7

Biblical Context

The text speaks of a future generation inheriting and sharing the name of their brothers; it also recalls Rachel's death along the journey near Bethlehem.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your issue, that is, the expressions of your life that come forth from your present state, shall be thine and bear the name of your inner brethren in their inheritance. The journey from Padan to Canaan becomes a symbolic movement of consciousness from estrangement to nourishment. Rachel's dying moment on the way and Bethlehem as the burial ground teaches that even great loss becomes the seedbed of your inner Bethlehem—the place where bread is discovered and your heart is fed. When you understand that I AM is the one who imagines, you will see that the future you seek is already named and waiting within your own mind, carrying forward the name of your most divine attributes. The brethren are your aspects—peace, courage, creativity—assigned to inherit the life you deserve. Your present stance, your imagining, and your feeling of being the parent of that future generate a perpetuation of your inner line. Thus the appearing world is simply the remembered birth of your inner vision, calling you by your true name.

Practice This Now

Act: Assume the end is already yours and revise silently: I am the inheritor of my good now. Then feel that truth as if it nourishes every cell, and dwell in the sensation of Bethlehem—the bread that feeds your soul.

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