Beginnings of Sorrows Within

Mark 13:5-8 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Mark 13 in context

Scripture Focus

5And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
6For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
7And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Mark 13:5-8

Biblical Context

Jesus identifies deceit and troubling world events as beginnings that reveal inner states. The passage invites us to understand the outer as a mirror of consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville lens, Mark's words are not prophecies about others but precise nudges of your own consciousness. 'Take heed lest any man deceive you' becomes a call to awareness: beware the tricks of fear and the tempting stories of separation, for your imagination is always creating a next moment. When he says 'many shall come in my name,' see those voices as inner personas that pretend to be truth but are really currents of belief arising within you. Wars, rumours of wars, earthquakes, and famines are not happening to you from without; they are the tremors of a mind clinging to lack, independence, or doubt. These are the beginnings of sorrows—signs that your sense of separation is dissolving and your true I AM seeks equilibrium. The remedy is not to escape the world but to reimagine it from the inscape of divine I AM. Sit in the feeling that the end you seek is already accomplished in your inner life and let that feeling radiate outward, transforming perception, relationship, and circumstance.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled by restating, 'I am the I AM, and this moment reflects my inner peace.' Practice for a few minutes, revising troubling outer scenes into the steady rhythm of inner truth.

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