Neville Goddard on Jude 1:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jude 1 in context

Scripture Focus

4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Jude 1:4-6

Biblical Context

Jude warns that some believers slip in quietly, perverting grace and denying Christ; he recalls God’s deliverance of Israel and punishment for unbelief, and notes that angels who abandoned their station face eternal judgment.

Neville's Inner Vision

To me, Jude's verses are a map of the mind. The 'certain men' are beliefs that have crept into consciousness unseen—old habits ordained to this condemnation—that turn grace into an excuse for self-will and deny the indwelling I AM. The 'Egypt' delivered from bondage is the moment grace liberates me from fear, yet some disbelief remains that would rebind me to old stories. The angels who kept not their first estate are higher faculties—faith, intuition, courage—that I must keep within their appointed order; when I ignore them, they fall into darkness, awaiting the day I reestablish their use. The 'great day' of judgment is not future doom but the present moment when I re-erect my state by assuming and feeling the truth of my inseparable oneness with God. Remembering this, I am invited to revise, to dwell in the awareness of grace realized, here now, and let every thought move toward the I AM with power and gentleness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume you are the I AM in charge of your mind; revise a lingering belief of lack by replacing it with 'I am grace realized now.' Then feel the truth of that state as present experience.