The Inner Book Revealed
Revelation 20:12-13 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Revelation 20 in context
Scripture Focus
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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