Neville Goddard on Joshua 6:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 6 in context

Scripture Focus

3And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

4And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

Joshua 6:3-4

Biblical Context

Joshua commands a six-day ritual of encircling Jericho with the ark, followed by seven circuits with trumpets on the seventh day; the outward rite mirrors an inward state of faith and divine presence.

Neville's Inner Vision

When you hear 'compass the city,' hear it as surrounding a fixed belief with your I AM. Jericho stands for a stubborn mental pattern, and the march is your steady mental activity around it. The ark is your central consciousness; the seven priests and seven trumpets symbolize seven faculties of awareness you invoke: attention, imagination, faith, gratitude, expectancy, declaration, and worship. Each lap is a repetition of the truth you desire until it becomes your felt reality. You are not conquering walls with force but dissolving them by the certainty that God, the I AM within, resides in you now. On the seventh day you intensify the rhythm, seven times, and the 'trumpets' seal the state by a felt proclamation. The Presence of God is the awareness that you are already there, already embodiment of your goal, living in the now of your own consciousness.

Practice This Now

Choose a single goal. Close your eyes and, in the I AM awareness, walk around the imagined Jericho for six laps while feeling the wish fulfilled. On the seventh lap, declare the truth with conviction and hold the feeling until it becomes real.