Atad Threshold Of Inner Mourning
Genesis 50:10-11 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 50 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Genesis 50:10-11 tells of Jacob's family mourning at the threshing floor of Atad beyond Jordan; the inhabitants call it a grievous mourning to the Egyptians. The passage invites us to notice how inner states are named by others and how we might reinterpret that naming as invitation to transition.
Neville's Inner Vision
On the threshing floor of Atad beyond Jordan, this is not a place in time but the edge of your own consciousness. The sorrow you feel is the signal that an old state is leaving you; I AM invites you to treat it as a doorway, not a disaster. The seven days of mourning are an inner rhythm—an invitation to feel the full movement of the old self, to name it, and then release it into the nothing from which all forms arise. The locals’ phrase—this grievous mourning—exposes the mind’s habit of labeling inner shifts as catastrophe; you may revise that judgment and hear it as a sign of purification. Abel Mizraim, the mourning of Egypt, becomes the inner recognition that bondage is only a thought; as you cross Jordan, you awaken to a new state of being, unbound by the former image. The inner door lies open. Rest in the awareness that you are already the man or woman you seek, and let the old scene dissolve into the background while you dwell in the new I AM.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes, stand on the threshing floor of Atad in your imagination, and feel the old sorrow pass. Silently affirm, I AM that I AM; I have already crossed beyond Jordan into a new state.
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