Neville Goddard on Philippians 4:2-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Philippians 4 in context

Scripture Focus

2I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

3And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Philippians 4:2-3

Biblical Context

Paul pleads for Euodias and Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord, and to receive help from their fellow workers. He notes that their names are in the book of life, signaling shared mission and eternal regard.

Neville's Inner Vision

Euodias and Syntyche are not strangers in a distant church but two poles of my own mind clashing within me. Paul’s plea, be of the same mind in the Lord, invites me to discover a single, unfragmented awareness—the I AM that I am. The 'true yokefellow' is the inner ally of my will, the part that stands by my decisions, and the appeal to 'help those women' becomes a call to unite the inner gospel—the faculties that labored with me in truth—so that their effort flows as one stream. Clement and the others whose 'names are in the book of life' symbolize the enduring record of my cooperative states; when I align them, I am living proof that life itself is a shared enterprise. Unity in the Lord is not a political policy but a condition of consciousness, a seamless awareness in which all parts of me work together for the gospel I am co-creating. Thus, the verse teaches that harmony arises from within and radiates outward as cooperative action and a sense of being written in the book of life.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Sit quietly and imagine your inner mind as one, repeating, 'I am of the same mind in the Lord with all aspects of my being.' See your inner yokefellow at your side, and revise any memory of conflict until you feel the unity as your present reality.