Naked Self in Mark 14:51-52
Mark 14:51-52 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Mark 14 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verses describe a young man pursued by others; he sheds his linen cloth and runs away, leaving himself exposed. This image points to the vulnerability of the self under pressure and the instinct to cover or abandon one’s identity.
Neville's Inner Vision
Mark 14:51-52 offers a bare image: a young man followed and seized, and in a moment he drops his linen cloth and flees, naked. In the Neville frame, the young man is not a bystander but a symbol of your current self-image—your sense of who you are when confronted by fear. The linen cloth stands for the outward covering you use to hide vulnerability, your imagined identity as a separate self. The men who grab him are the pressures of circumstance, blame, and judgment that press upon consciousness. When he sheds the cloth and runs, the old image dissolves; the nakedness that follows is not shame but the discovery of the I AM that remains behind every mask. The scene invites you to humility and turning: you are called to lay down the disguise and awaken to awareness, not by fighting the world but by aligning with the inner witness. Each trial may reveal more of your true state and invite a revision of what you accept as real.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes and revise the scene by declaring, 'I am the I AM; I drop the old self-image now and stand naked to the truth of awareness.' Then feel the fear dissolve as your attention rests in inner I AM.
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