Neville Goddard on Psalms 88:1-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Psalms 88:1-18

Biblical Context

The psalmist cries to the LORD in a night of trouble, describing being near the grave, cut off from friends, and overwhelmed by darkness. It is a stark portrait of suffering that feels abandoned by God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the lament is not a record of outer misfortune, but an inner state of consciousness mistaken for truth. The 'LORD God of my salvation' is the I AM within you, the awareness that never truly leaves you, even when the mind feels laid in the lowest pit and darkness. When you identify with the idea of abandonment, you project a life separate from that presence. Neville's method says: assume you are already where you want to be; revise the scene from within, and feel it real now. Begin by acknowledging the cry as a declaration of the I AM's sufficiency; incline the ear of your awareness toward the cry, and let the resolution come as a felt shift in consciousness. In your revision, imagine the morning of prayer not as petition but as recognition: you awaken to the fact that God is always with you, dissolving forgetfulness and restoring companionship and light. The walls of your life become walls of your mind; you decide their meaning.