Neville Goddard on Genesis 7:13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 7 in context

Scripture Focus

13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

Genesis 7:13

Biblical Context

On the selfsame day, Noah, his wife, and his three sons with their wives entered the ark, signaling a moment of collective movement toward salvation.

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as Neville would, the 'ark' is your fixed state of consciousness, and the names are facets of your own inner life. Noah is the I AM, present, aware, unmoved by external deluge. His wife and the wives of his sons are the associative mental states that accompany that awareness, loyalty, nurture, disciplined imagination. When Genesis says they entered the ark on the selfsame day, it is telling you that at a single moment you may move into a shelter of awareness and let the old world drown in symbol. The flood is not outside but within, the old conditions, fears, and stories dissolving as you hold to the inner assumption. By obedience, by staying faithful to the imagined end, you seal a covenant with your own I AM. Salvation is not future rescue but present recognition: you are already in the ark whenever you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and live from that consciousness now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and deliberately enter the ark of your own consciousness. In this moment, declare, 'I am the I AM, and I now live from the state that saves.' Then rest in the feeling of being already there, letting the old flood recede.