Neville Goddard on Joshua 21:5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 21 in context

Scripture Focus

5And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

Joshua 21:5

Biblical Context

The verse notes the rest of the Kohathites receiving ten cities by lot from the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, completing a distribution within the covenant community. This sets a pattern of orderly inclusion and duty within the people of God.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner sense, the rest of the Kohathites represents a faculty within you that serves the sanctuary of awareness. The ten cities are ten aspects of consciousness you are stewarding—states of mind, powers of living, and qualities you permit to inhabit your life. The allotment by lot points to a divine ordering of your thoughts, drawn from Ephraim, Dan, and Manasseh—the regions of mind where you exercise responsibility. This is not a mere historical distribution; it is a psychological map: your inner life is organized, not chaotic, under the covenant of I AM. When you align with your I AM, these ten states—peace, clarity, courage, faith, mercy, joy, healing, vision, discipline, gratitude—become available and harmonize in you. The presence of God is the unity that arises when you dwell in awareness, and your life rearranges itself to reflect that covenant.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume you already possess ten inner cities allocated to you by the law of your consciousness from the three realms of mind named. Feel the covenant loyalty grounding them, and dwell in the sense of I AM, as these cities settle into your daily life.