Radical Inner Cleansing
Matthew 5:29-30 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Matthew 5 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Plain summary: Jesus uses the eye and hand as symbols of inner sight and action; if these 'offend,' you are urged to remove them from your awareness so your whole life is not cast into ruin.
Neville's Inner Vision
In Neville's reading, the eye and the hand are not literal organs but inner faculties—your perception and your doing. When the text says they offend, it points to beliefs, thoughts, and habits that feed sin. You are not commanded to maim your body; you are invited to cut off the old pattern by changing your state of mind. By assumption, you announce that the offending impulse no longer governs your experience and you revise the sense of self to one already dwelling in wholeness. The I AM—the sole awareness that creates reality—is your sovereign power. As you imagine yourself free, you stop identifying with fear, guilt, or lack. Your feelings follow the new state, and your world aligns with the belief you hold in consciousness. The 'hell' is the current mindset clinging to limitation; turn from the old image and awaken to a new one by choosing and inhabiting the revised inner state. Thus purification becomes a reformation of who you are within, dissolving the need for old offences.
Practice This Now
Sit quietly, assume the revised state in which the I AM is the witness of sight and hand; declare, 'The belief that I must offend through sight or hand is removed,' and feel the new consciousness filling you. Then carry one small action today from that revised state.
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