Neville Goddard on Hebrews 10:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hebrews 10 in context

Scripture Focus

1For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

Hebrews 10:1-2

Biblical Context

The verse argues that the old covenant's sacrifices cannot perfect the worshippers; true purification arises from inner transformation, not external rites.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the shadow of the old law, the outer sacrifices were never the image of the things to come; they spoke to a state of mind you must enter. The law, in Neville’s sense, is a map of inner possibilities: you are not made whole by yearly rites, you are made whole by the awareness you inhabit. When you identify with the I AM—the unconditioned sense of 'I am' here and now—you discover the true image of good already within you. The purging described as removing sins is the moment you drop belief in lack and stop calling your life a continual performance. Perfection becomes a present-tense fact, not a future achievement, as your inner vision aligns with that image and the 'conscience of sins' loosens its grip. The old question of how to be fixed dissolves as you acknowledge that the temple of God is consciousness itself, and you stand there as the fulfilled idea. In this light, the shadows fade and you live from the reality you already are.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes, declare 'I AM' as your immediate reality, and feel that awareness saturating you until lack and separation dissolve.