Neville Goddard on Hebrews 13:9-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hebrews 13 in context

Scripture Focus

9Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

10We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

11For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

13Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

14For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Hebrews 13:9-14

Biblical Context

The passage warns against being swayed by new or strange doctrines and urges the heart to be established by grace; the altar points to an inner center, and we are called to go beyond the camp to seek the city that comes from within.

Neville's Inner Vision

Be not carried about by divers and strange doctrines is a reminder that shifts in consciousness are more real than shifts in dietary laws. The heart is established with grace when you stop trying to secure acceptance by rules and begin feeling the I AM as your steady inner atmosphere. The altar and the sacrificed beasts point to the inner altar of awareness where your sins are atoned by being aware of who you are. Jesus, who sanctifies by his blood, represents the inner purity that comes when you identify with your divine center, not with a temple built by hands. Without the camp means liberating yourself from the old world of separation; going forth unto him without the camp is a decision of consciousness to live from the I AM rather than from appearances. Thus we have no fixity in the outward city; we seek the city that comes from within, the kingdom of heaven as a state of mind.

Practice This Now

Sit in quiet, close your eyes, and declare I am established in grace now. Visualize leaving the camp of old rules and stepping through the inner altar into the I AM, feeling the sacred grace enfold you.