Neville Goddard on Joshua 16:4-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 16 in context

Scripture Focus

4So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

5And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;

6And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;

7And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

8The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.

Joshua 16:4-8

Biblical Context

These verses describe Ephraim's inheritance, traced as a border along rivers and the Jordan. The map of land serves as a metaphor for the inner territory of consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inheritance here is not a plot of land but a state of consciousness you already carry. The border described is the boundary of your current beliefs, habits, and feelings, the inner terrain that conditions what you experience from day to day. To 'take' it means to know you are the I AM, the one aware, and to act from that awareness in imagination. The place names and rivers are symbolic markers for how your attention flows—what you invite and what you exclude. Providence is an inner law guiding your steps, crossing the Jordan of doubt as you persist in a new sense of being. When you imagine the land as yours, you are not claiming land but aligning your state with it, so the outward world follows inwardly. The discipline is simple: decide what portion of consciousness you will dwell in, hold it firmly, and let feeling awaken the new border.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the land is yours now. Feel the border of your inner state as you stand at the Jordan, and let the I AM declare it done, right here and now.