Prodigal Return: Inner Father
Luke 15:20-24 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Luke 15 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
One son, who squandered his life, rises and returns to his father. The father, seeing him from afar, runs to him, embraces him, and calls for the feast, declaring that the son is alive again.
Neville's Inner Vision
Luke 15:20-24 is a manual for turning attention. The prodigal son represents a dissociated state of consciousness, a mentality that believed it was estranged from its Source. When he arose and came to his father, he did so in imagination first; the great distance is the mind's illusion of lack and separation. The father who sees him 'from afar' is the I AM within you, your own awareness recognizing truth before any outward sign. The rushing to him, falling on his neck, and kissing him, are the immediacy of feeling—a revision in which forgiveness precedes confession, and acceptance returns before any worthiness is earned. The robes, ring, and shoes are symbols of your restored dominion, status, and ready feet to walk in newness. The fatted calf and merry feast symbolize the inner celebration that accompanies the new state of being—the awareness that you are alive, found, no longer dead to your true self. The moral is not moral prose but inner alignment: you return to your true self by assuming the state of the Father, and you observe events follow as the inner landscape rearranges itself.
Practice This Now
Assume you are already the beloved son. In your imagination, place the robe, ring, and sandals on yourself and feel the feast in your heart.
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