Neville Goddard on Leviticus 23:39-43 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Leviticus 23 in context

Scripture Focus

39Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

40And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

41And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

42Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

43That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 23:39-43

Biblical Context

Leviticus 23:39-43 commands a seven-day festival in the seventh month, with palm branches and booths, to rejoice before the LORD and remember deliverance from Egypt. It anchors a memory of liberation as a recurring inner practice.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner reading, the outer ritual becomes a symbol of your current state of consciousness. The booths indicate temporary but intimate shelters in which you choose to live as a liberated being, not a slave to circumstance. The seven days mark a complete cycle in which you practice trusting the I AM as your reality, not a future hope. When the instruction says you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, it is a directive to rejoice in awareness itself, to feel joy as proof of your present liberty. The gathering of fruit and the command to remember how you were brought out of Egypt translate to inner fruits—courage, faith, gratitude—produced by imagining into being the end you seek. The refrain I am the LORD your God asserts the identity you inhabit; you are the I AM, and your states of consciousness determine what appears. Thus you shift from memory of bondage to living liberation by a steady act of assumption and feeling it real.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: close your eyes, assume the state of freedom now, and dwell in a mental booth of awareness for seven days, feeling joy as present reality. Let any sense of bondage revise to gratitude as you confirm the inward exodus is complete.