Neville Goddard on Hebrews 5:11-13 - 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.

13For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

Hebrews 5:11-13

Biblical Context

Hebrews 5:11-13 describes a community slow to hear and unskilled in the word, still clinging to milk rather than solid teaching. It invites inner growth toward discernment and maturity.

Neville's Inner Vision

To those who hear Hebrews 5:11-13 with the right awareness, the 'dull of hearing' is not a deficiency of the ear but a refusal of the imagination to rise. The inner teacher within awaits your decision to graduate from milk into the 'strong meat' of living truth. The verse says you ought to be teachers, yet need to be taught again the first principles. See: the call is not to seek external authority but to awaken the inner I AM, the word of righteousness that you already are. The 'oracles of God' are inner principles—your own laws of consciousness applying God-life here and now. When you dwell in the I AM and imagine this moment as its expression, the sense of dullness dissolves and you grow beyond the babe, skilled in the Word. This is not about changing scripture; it is about changing your state of consciousness. You become the one who speaks with discernment, who practices truth by living it, and who teaches from an inner authority that never wanes.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare, 'I am the teacher within. I understand the first principles, and I am now skilled in the word of righteousness.' Then envision a moment where you speak from the inner I AM with clear discernment.