Neville Goddard on Matthew 25:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 25 in context

Scripture Focus

6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

Matthew 25:6-7

Biblical Context

At midnight a call arises to meet the Bridegroom; the virgins wake and trim their lamps, symbolizing readiness of inner consciousness. It invites us to examine our inner state and awareness as the source of every meeting.

Neville's Inner Vision

I tell you the midnight cry is not an event happening to you, but a turning of your own consciousness toward the I AM. The bridegroom is the invincible presence you are, already here, only now waking from sleep. The five virgins represent modes of attention: some keep a spark of faith alive while others tempt fate with fear. When the cry sounds, you rise not to chase a person but to align your inner state with the reality you desire. To trim the lamps is to discipline your imagination— to prune idle thoughts and feed it with the sense that the Bridegroom is arriving within this very moment. The moment you acknowledge him, you meet him; the reunion is your recognition that the kingdom is present as your awareness. It is not about timekeeping but about turning to the awareness that you are, were, and always will be the I AM seeing through this body. In this light, the 'midnight' becomes simply a revision point: you revise your self-image until the world conforms to the inner truth of your one life.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In the next moment, sit quietly, declare 'I am the Bridegroom within me now,' and feel the presence of the I AM as already arrived; revise any sense of delay by imagining the meeting occurs now.