Neville Goddard on Proverbs 8:22-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Proverbs 8 in context

Scripture Focus

22The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

Proverbs 8:22-23

Biblical Context

Proverbs 8:22-23 presents Wisdom as an inner, eternal presence that existed with God before creation, pre-dating the earth itself. It implies that true order arises from an inner consciousness rather than from external events.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Proverbs 8:22-23, Wisdom is not a distant attribute but the I AM within you, an eternal presence that possessed the WAY of God before any act of creation. This is Neville's gospel: the 'me' who speaks in the verse is your own consciousness, the very I AM that sets up reality from everlasting. The words 'before his works of old' and 'from everlasting' announce that the ordering power of life is not added to you from without, but resident as your inner sight, your imagining, your awareness. When you identify with this pre-existent Wisdom, you align with Providence and discover that every appearance in your world emerges from this inner movement. Your life is the outward form of an inward, timeless decision—the decision of awareness itself. The 'possession' is ownership of your inner state, a recognition that you are the living conduit through which order comes. Rest in that truth, and watch your outer world reflect the coherence of this eternal knowledge.

Practice This Now

Act: Sit in quiet, affirm, 'I AM Wisdom that existed before all forms; I possess the way of my life now.' Then take a current goal and feel it already fulfilled by this timeless inner order.