Neville Goddard on Psalms 2:1-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 2 in context

Scripture Focus

1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

Psalms 2:1-3

Biblical Context

Psalm 2:1-3 questions why the nations rage against God's rule and imagine vain plans. It points to an inner arena where true authority resides beyond political power.

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse calls the nations to rage, yet Neville would remind us that the 'nations' exist as movements of consciousness within us. The 'anointed' is not a victim but the I AM within, the one God-state that rules your inner kingdom. The cry 'Let us break their bands asunder' reveals the old belief that you are bound by external powers, laws, and opinions. In the inner hearing of verse, those bands are only the habits of thought you have consented to as real. The kings and rulers are the voices of fear, doubt, and limitation that convene in your consciousness against the Lord of your house—the sense of divine presence. The remedy is practical: decide in the present now that you are one with God, that your awareness is the authority, that the kingdom of God is within. Assume the feeling of that reality; revise every outer condition to reflect your inner state; feel it real until the imagined cords loosen and you stand in quiet sovereignty.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly and declare I AM as your state of consciousness, then visualize the outer cords dissolving into light while you stand sovereign within the kingdom of God.