Neville Goddard on Judges 16:20-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 16 in context

Scripture Focus

20And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.

21But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

Judges 16:20-21

Biblical Context

Samson wakes to find the LORD departed from him. The Philistines seize him, blind him, and grind him in prison.

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 16:20-21 speaks to a law I know in the temple of my own consciousness: when I identify with a lesser self, the LORD—my I AM awareness—seems to depart. The Philistines are the stubborn habits, doubts, and appetites that crowd my attention and blind me to the Presence. The eyes that are gouged are the inner sight, the sense of separation that binds me to a story of limitation. The brass fetters and the grinding in the prison house mirror the old pattern of repeating fear and sorrow. Yet this is not punishment but a mirror for my revision. The moment of awakening—where Samson says he will go out as at other times—reveals the opportunity to re-anchor in the unchanging I AM. By choosing to revise my state, by feeling the truth of the Presence as here now, the apparent departure dissolves and power returns. As I persist in the felt reality of the all-pervading I AM, outer conditions yield and freedom emerges.

Practice This Now

In quiet, assume the state of I AM here now; revise by feeling the Presence as unchanging. Imagine a door of light opening within and walk through into freedom.