She Is Not Dead, But Sleep
Luke 8:51-53 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Luke 8 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Luke 8:51–53 shows Jesus entering the house, sparing only a few witnesses, declaring the maiden asleep, and inviting belief over the crowd's despair and disbelief.
Neville's Inner Vision
In this inner parable, the house is your sanctuary of consciousness and the maiden your buried life. The weeping is the old sense of lack; the laughter is doubt clinging to habit. When Jesus says she sleeps, he reveals that death is a dream of separation from your I AM. The chosen witnesses—Peter, James, John—represent the necessary alignments of your faculties: faith, courage, inner vision, and the grounding love of being. The outward scene is not a miracle performed upon you but a confirmation you can realize now: life, presence, and purpose revived by the certainty you hold in your state of consciousness. The room becomes your altar where imagination refashions what you believed was over. This is not distant power; it is your active present state awaiting your recognition. Attend to it, and allow the scene to refresh until vitality returns to the entire being.
Practice This Now
Assume the inner scene as real: the maiden awakens, sits up, and you hear your own I AM claim life. Feel the vitality filling your room as now.
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