The Inner Book Revealed

Revelation 20:12-13 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Revelation 20 in context

Scripture Focus

12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Revelation 20:12-13

Biblical Context

Revelation 20:12–13 shows the dead standing before God while the books of deeds are opened, and judgment is rendered from what is written in those books, according to works. The 'book of life' represents the true state of awareness to be claimed.

Neville's Inner Vision

Behold the inner vision: the dead are not strangers but states of consciousness that have outlived their usefulness. When the books are opened, imagine every belief, habit, and act laid before your awareness. The book of life is not a distant ledger in a celestial court; it is the living record of your present I AM—the awareness you are choosing to identify with now. The sea, death, and hell are simply those parts of mind that have buried truth and kept you from vitality. As you recognize them, they release their dead when faced with the power of your I AM and your decision to awaken. Judgment becomes a turning of attention rather than punishment: you see what you have lived in thought and feeling, and you choose a new state that aligns with your truth. When you revise from lack to abundance, from fear to love, from separation to unity, your inward state rearranges your outer conditions. The law is simple and intimate: your inner condition writes your outer life, and you decide the script by what you assume as true now.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly and imagine the Books opening before you, then declare, 'I am the I AM; this present state is my reality now.' Feel the truth of the revised life rise and linger for a moment.

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