Neville Goddard on Mark 12:28-34 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Mark 12 in context

Scripture Focus

28And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?

29And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

30And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

31And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

32And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:

33And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

34And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

Mark 12:28-34

Biblical Context

Jesus states the first commandment is to love God with all, and the second to love your neighbor as yourself; true worship flows from inner alignment, not external ritual.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the Neville ear, this exchange reveals that the 'one Lord' is the single consciousness you are awake within. Hear, O Israel is not a call to a distant deity but to the awareness that you are the I AM, the ever-present seeing that holds all experience. The command to love God with all your heart, mind, and strength is a directive to invest the totality of your inner attention in the reality you choose to be conscious of. When you inhabit that unity, loving your neighbor becomes the natural, outward reflection of your inner state, for there is no separation in consciousness. The scribe’s recognition that love fulfilling the law exceeds sacrifices points to a royal inner kingdom that is not distant but latent, waiting your recognition. The kingdom comes when you no longer negotiate with fear but dwell in the assumed reality that you and another are one expression of the same I AM. Practice by turning every person into a mirror of your own being, and let your love revise the world from within.

Practice This Now

Imitate Neville's method: assume you are the source of love to all you meet; feel-it-real by silently affirming 'I AM love' and imagining each person as an expression of your own I AM.