Neville Goddard on Judges 15:8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 15 in context

Scripture Focus

8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

Judges 15:8

Biblical Context

Samson defeats the Philistines with a great slaughter, then retreats to the top of the rock Etam. The move signals moving the outer victory into the inner fortress of awareness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 15:8 places a fierce act in the mouth of a man who stands on the rock of awareness. The great slaughter is not a separate physical battle; it is the decisive casting out of all tenancies to fear and limitation that you have unknowingly entertained as real. When Samson climbs to the top of Etam, he is rising in consciousness to the only place where power truly resides—the I AM that you are. The Philistines are the thoughts of lack, doubt, and impulse that have haunted the ego; to smite them hip and thigh is to refuse to identify with them any longer. The retreat to the rock Etam is the living proof that you refuse to negotiate your life from the lower level of reaction. From that high ground your perception shifts; events may still appear, but they no longer govern you. In this tale, the victory is inner: a released will, a quiet acceptance, and the birth of a new state of awareness that actualizes as liberty and creative unfoldment through imagination.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, assume you stand on the inner Etam, the I AM. Feel the victory as already yours and carry that feeling into your day until it becomes your default state.