Neville Goddard on Genesis 5:25-27 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 5 in context

Scripture Focus

25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Genesis 5:25-27

Biblical Context

Methuselah lived 187 years, begat Lamech, and then lived 782 more years, fathering others. He died at the end of 969 years.

Neville's Inner Vision

Methuselah's ledger is not a calendar of history but a map of consciousness. Each phase of his life—187 years before Lamech, then 782 years after—represents a change in the state of awareness, a birth of a new condition within the I AM. When he begat Lamech, new impulse or mood enters the mind; after that birth the life of the state extends, until a new transformation arrives and the days are counted anew. The final sum, 969 years, is the total duration your mind remains in a given way of knowing. Your being does not age in the outer world; you experience time as the inner tempo of your current dominant conviction. To read this as a record of geography is to miss the inner geography: the shift in your attention, belief, and feeling-tone that shapes your experience. Therefore, you are Methuselah: any state of consciousness you inhabit will live out its days until you revise your inner scenario. Die to the old self by awakening to a higher I AM, and the years you live will reflect that light.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes, revise the scene to your present life, and declare, "I AM that I AM, living in a timeless, whole now." Feel this as your real condition and let the feeling radiate until it confirms in your outer experience.