Neville Goddard on John 17:12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read John 17 in context

Scripture Focus

12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

John 17:12

Biblical Context

Jesus kept them in God's name, and none were lost except the son of perdition, so the scripture could be fulfilled.

Neville's Inner Vision

View this not as history but as your inner state. To be kept in thy name is to be held in the awareness that you are the I AM, the living God within. In your present moment, the world corresponds to outward appearances, and the disciples are your various imagined identities, all preserved within the one Name you call God. When none is lost—except the son of perdition—it signifies that every aspect of your being remains within the self-sustaining life of the I AM, even the aspect you call betrayal or loss. The son of perdition is a figure for a belief in separation—an inner impulse to be free of God—allowed to arise to fulfill the inner scripture, which is the law of your consciousness: nothing truly leaves you; all is used to demonstrate your unity with God. When you realize you can keep them by remaining in your name, you practice faith as a state of assured presence, not a rescue operation. The moment you imagine yourself as the I AM, you rewrite the script, and scripture exists to confirm your unbroken inner kingdom.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, breathe, then say I AM kept in God's Name and feel the truth as a current sensation. If thoughts of loss or betrayal arise, revise to these appearances are kept within the I AM, and I remain intact and real.