Neville Goddard on Judges 13:1-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 13 in context

Scripture Focus

1And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

2And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

3And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

4Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

5For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

Judges 13:1-5

Biblical Context

Israel did evil and was delivered into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. A barren couple is told they will bear a son who shall be a Nazirite and begin deliverance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 13:1-5 speaks of a people who have fallen into a mind-state of separation from the good. The oppression by the Philistines is not a geography but a ruling thought—fear, limitation, the belief that life is diminished. In the story, a barren woman receives the message that she shall conceive a son who must never cut his hair, who shall be Nazirite unto God from the womb; this is a symbol of a consciousness consecrated to pure awareness. The angel's instruction to abstain from wine and unclean things points to dissociating from intoxicating and corrupt beliefs; in Neville's terms, you revise your mental diet, you stop pandering to appearances and you listen to the inner word. The child to be born is the inner deliverer, the sense of I AM arising in you, capable of beginning the deliverance of your own mind from the Philistine army of fear. The forty years represent a mindset stuck in repetition; the vow at the scalp speaks of a vow of separation from the ordinary self and its dramas. The moment you acknowledge this inner vow and feel it as real, the deliverer awakens within and begins to free you.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly and declare: I AM the deliverer within; I consecrate my mind to pure awareness. Feel the state of separation from fear and the newborn sense of power rising within you.