Inner Mark of Revelation
Revelation 13:16-17 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Revelation 13 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The text describes a universal mark that enables buying and selling for all, signaling allegiance to a controlling power. Neville would read this as an inner condition of consciousness, where identification with external power determines reality, and true worship arises from inward alignment with the I AM.
Neville's Inner Vision
Revelation 13:16-17 speaks of a mark that enables buying and selling, a symbol of allegiance imposed upon all. But the beast is not a thing outside; it is the belief you hold about your value being determined by the world’s economics. When you imagine yourself as the one who must satisfy the crowd, you are already bearing the mark in your right hand or forehead—the habitual thought ‘I am by the market’s terms’. In Neville's terms, the name of the beast is whatever label you wear to prove you belong: debt, status, scarcity, fear. The way out is not rebellion against a political order but a revision of consciousness: see yourself as the I AM, the source of all supply, and dwell in the imagination that you have already received the currency of God’s abundance. In that inward state, the external market loses coercive power; to buy and sell becomes a natural expression of living from completion rather than lack; you worship the true 'King' within—your own inner reality.
Practice This Now
Assume the I AM is the source of your value now, and revise any thought of external control by embodying that you already possess abundant supply. Feel it real by repeating until the sensation of sufficiency arises.
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