Neville Goddard on John 15:1-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read John 15 in context

Scripture Focus

1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

6If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

John 15:1-8

Biblical Context

Jesus declares I am the true vine and that abiding in him grants fruitfulness; without this union, nothing persists, and pruning leads to greater bearing, with his words cleansing and guiding the life of believers.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the passage is not about external vines and branches, but about your awareness. I AM the true vine; the Father is the gardener who tends your inner life to produce more fruit through rightful alignment. To abide is to rest in the realization that you are already cleaned by the word spoken within you; not by acts, but by states of consciousness. When you say 'I am in Him, and He is in me,' you are not performing, you are becoming receptive—drawing life from the consciousness that is the vine. The branch has no power apart from the vine; likewise your doings flow from your steadfast identification with God. If you find yourself withered by fear or lack, revise your sense of separation by returning to the place where your words dwell in you and you dwell in them. Ask from this union, and your requests align with the divine life that bears fruit in form. Thus the Father is glorified as you inhabit abundant life and become a disciple of quiet, abiding awareness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, declare 'I am in the vine,' and feel the life flowing from God into you; revise any lack as already fulfilled, dwelling in that feeling until fruit appears in experience.