Neville Goddard on Hebrews 5:11-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hebrews 5 in context

Scripture Focus

11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Hebrews 5:11-12

Biblical Context

The passage says there is much to say, yet their hearing is dull; by this time they should be teaching, yet they still need milk.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that dull hearing is not a defect in their ears but a revealing state of consciousness. You are not being deprived of doctrine; you are refusing the truth your own imagination could instantiate. When you say 'they ought to be teachers' you disclose your latent authority within—the I AM that already knows the first principles of God. Milk is comfortable reliance on outside instruction; strong meat is the inner discernment that arises when you stop seeking proof in the world and begin living from inner realization. The writer's words are a call to revision: imagine the very principles as alive now, perceiving and applying them as you would a recipe you taste within. The inner teacher within you doesn't wait for a future moment; it awakens when your attention is fixed on the reality you are choosing to inhabit. Thus, the dullness dissolves as you accept that you are both student and master, here and now, within the single I AM. In that acceptance, your spiritual appetite shifts from milk to nourishment that strengthens every action.

Practice This Now

Assume you are already the teacher; in your mind, address a classroom of your inner selves with the first principles. Feel the authority of the I AM teaching through you and let that conviction replace every dull thought with clarity.