Neville Goddard on Genesis 6:8-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 6 in context

Scripture Focus

8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

15And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

18But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

19And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

20Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

21And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

22Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Genesis 6:8-22

Biblical Context

Noah is described as a righteous man whom God favors; the earth is corrupt, yet Noah walks with God and is chosen to survive the flood with his family and the animals.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the story, the earth's corruption is the outer dream; the flood represents the storm of thoughts that pretend separation from the one Life. Noah's grace is the recognition of a state of consciousness you already are, and the ark is your mental sanctuary built by imagination. God says, I will establish my covenant with you when you inhabit the I AM. Noah walks with God because he has tuned his inner attention to the steady presence of consciousness; grace is an inner fact, not a reward from outside. The ark is your mental construct—the safe house built in imagination with rooms, doors, and windows—where you preserve life by choosing what you admit into awareness. The commands to fill the ark with two of every kind become a discipline: you affirm the duplication of your faculties and your life terms, pairing action with intuition, and food with daily nourishment. When you enter the ark in imagination and feel the covenant as already done, you ride the flood of seeming separation into a new earth where life is preserved by your unwavering allegiance to the I AM.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the end is true now; feel the ark of your awareness surrounding you and stay with that sensation for a few minutes, then proceed from that covenant as your baseline reality.