Inner Land Surveyors of Joshua
Joshua 18:4-5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Joshua 18 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Joshua 18:4-5 describes appointing three men from each tribe to survey the land and report back, then dividing the land into seven parts for the tribes. It highlights obedience, covenant loyalty, and faithful distribution of territory as a spiritual exercise.
Neville's Inner Vision
I speak to you in the living I AM: the three surveyors are not men but states of consciousness you must awaken. They rise from your inner Joshua and go through the land of your being, describing it according to the inheritance you already possess within. When they return, their report comes as a new alignment of your imagination with your true nature, and you divide the land into seven parts. The southern coast of Judah and the northern coasts of Joseph symbolize inner polarities—one faithful to the covenant, the other the dynamic mind ever seeking its pattern. The act is a consecration: you map your inner kingdom not to conquer a land outside you but to claim the territory of your own perfect awareness. The land is your awareness in action; the seven parts are the seven faculties of self—will, understanding, imagination, memory, love, reason, and purpose—each given its rightful place under I AM. Realize that you are the I AM, and the promised land becomes your lived experience, vividly described by those three inner travellers who never left you.
Practice This Now
Choose three inner states (for example: faith, clarity, courage) as your surveyors. In imagination, send them through your inner landscape, listen to their report, then revise your self-conception to align with it; finally map your inner land into seven parts and name the faculties that govern each.
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