Neville Goddard on Joshua 20:6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 20 in context

Scripture Focus

6And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.

Joshua 20:6

Biblical Context

The verse places a slayer in a city of refuge until judgment, and, after the death of the high priest, the fugitive can return to his own city.

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the city of refuge as a state of consciousness you can enter at will. The slayer in you is the memory of a deed carried as fear, the old self that fled before the light of awareness. The congregation is your inner witness—your I AM presence—that judges with calm clarity, not condemnation. The death of the high priest marks the passing of an outdated inner authority—the old image of God as judge. When you dwell in that inner city and observe the flow of thoughts and sensations from this higher vantage, the priest dies to your fear, and the slayer is liberated to return to his own city, now understood as a harmonized part of you. Imagination is cause; so revise the scene by feeling the release and ownership of your own true home. Stand in present awareness and declare, with feeling, that you belong to the I AM who never leaves your side. This is the inner exodus and the homecoming, here and now.

Practice This Now

Practice: Close your eyes, breathe, and enter the inner city refuge. Then assume the death of the old high priest and feel yourself returning to your true home now.