Neville Goddard on Psalms 8:1-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 8 in context

Scripture Focus

1O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Psalms 8:1-4

Biblical Context

Psalm 8:1-4 extols the majesty of God’s name and wonders at human dignity within creation; it then turns to wonder at the cosmos and the question of man’s place before the divine.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner theater, the Lord—my I AM—appears as the awareness that I am exalted in all creation. The name above the heavens is not an external title but the lived state of consciousness I wear. Strength is ordained from the inward utterance, even from the babes and sucklings of my mind, because belief in separation can be silenced by the certainty that I stand in the presence of God. When I gaze at the heavens and the work of the fingers, the moon and stars, I see imagination shaping order within; the cosmos becomes the reflection of my inward arranging of reality. What is man that Thou art mindful of him? The answer rises as: man is the realized idea of God within me, the Son of Man visiting my life through attentive awareness. The visitation is present tense—God within me recognizing itself as my very life; the universe answers to the precision of my inner state.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, assume 'I am the I AM within,' and feel it real that you are the living presence of God in form; sustain this state for several minutes to revise any sense of separation.