Neville Goddard on Psalms 114:1-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 114 in context

Scripture Focus

1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

2Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

3The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

Psalms 114:1-6

Biblical Context

Psalms 114:1-6 portrays Israel’s exodus from bondage, with the natural world responding to God’s presence as signs of liberation.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the psalm as a map of your inner exodus. You are Israel stepping out of Egypt the bondage of limitation into a land of presence where Judah is sanctuary and Israel is dominion. The sea that saw it and fled, the Jordan that was driven back, are inner forces that yield to your new state. Picture fear and lack dissolving as you stand in the awareness of I AM. The mountains skip like rams and the little hills like lambs symbolize fixed beliefs bowing to the power of consciousness that chooses freedom. The cry what ailed thee can be heard as an invitation to revise your relation to past conditions, not to fight them but to allow your inner power to re-script them. This is not history but a pattern of awakening: your inner exodus, led by the I AM, makes a sanctuary of your mind and grants you dominion over experience. When you dwell there, the outer world becomes the echo of that inward triumph.

Practice This Now

Assume the state of Israel now. Feel the sea withdraw, the mountains leap, and dwell in the sanctuary dominion of the I AM, as if it were already real.