Inner Temptation, Inner Mastery
Proverbs 7:22 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Proverbs 7 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse shows someone rushing after temptation toward ruin, like an ox to slaughter; it warns that giving in leads to bondage and folly. It presents a moment of choice: stay aware, or yield to impulse.
Neville's Inner Vision
To Neville's ear, Proverbs 7:22 is not about a woman but about a state of consciousness that darts after sensation. The man in the imagery becomes the posture of desire when it is unexamined, an ox marching to slaughter driven by the mind’s quick alignments with appearance. The inner scene is the battlefield: the 'her' stands for a tempting image created by the ego, and the chase is the impulse to identify with that image as real. The remedy is not denial but an awakening to I AM—the single, timeless awareness that sustains all beings. When you notice the impulse, remind yourself: I am the I AM, the one who chooses where to place attention. You revise the narrative by assuming a higher end and inhabiting that end in imagination until it feels real. The dreadful end—the slaughter, the stocks—becomes symbolic of old bondage dissolving as you relinquish identification with desire and re-present the scene from the calm, decisive center of consciousness. In that shift, what seemed inevitable becomes voluntary and serene.
Practice This Now
Imaginative_act: When temptation appears, assume the I AM is the ruler of the scene. Revise the inner image and feel, I am free, I choose wisdom.
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