Inner Vision: Elijah and Resurrection
Matthew 17:9-13 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Matthew 17 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jesus directs the disciples to keep the vision private until the Son of Man is risen; they question Elijah's coming, and he answers that Elijah has already come in the person of John the Baptist.
Neville's Inner Vision
To Neville, the mountain is a state of consciousness, and the vision is an inner birth that changes what you accept as real. The command to tell the vision to no man until the Son of Man is risen means the event has already occurred in the sanctuary of your awareness; the rising is not an empire of facts but a conversion of your I AM. Elijah’s coming is not a distant event but the inner impulse that returns order and restores all things by cleansing your belief. When Jesus says Elijah has come already and they knew him not, but did unto him whatsoever they listed, he points you to your John the Baptist within—the inner purifier who prepares your heart for transformation. The disciples’ realization that he spoke of John shows this passage is about inner revision, not chronology. Suffering and trials become the crucible through which the old you yields to a risen self; the Son of Man rises as your present awareness expands. You are invited to recognize and dwell in that risen consciousness, which already completed the work within you.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit in stillness and imagine, 'I am the risen Son of Man in consciousness,' feeling it as real. Then revise a limiting belief to align with that risen self and carry that new sense into today.
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