Neville Goddard on Romans 11:17-24 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Romans 11 in context

Scripture Focus

17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

22Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

23And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

24For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

Romans 11:17-24

Biblical Context

Some natural branches are broken off and you, a wild branch, are grafted in among them, sharing the root and nourishment. Do not boast, but stay in faith, for unbelief can sever and belief can preserve; God’s goodness and severity invite steady alignment with the inner tree.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the verse is not about geography but your inner tree. The wild self does not abandon the root; it is joined to the One Life by attention and faith. When you identify with the I AM as your enduring reality, you become the branch that draws sap from the root's inexhaustible fatness. The divisions of natural and wild fall away in your awareness; you are simply consciousness grafted into the Tree of Life by your decision to believe. Belief is not external ceremony but the inner recognition that you are already sustained by the divine soil. The warnings of severity and the invitation of goodness are symbols of your own inner states—persist in awareness and goodness flows; entertain unbelief and you experience a cutting away from your true center. Yet God can graft back any portion that returns to faith, indicating the renewability of your interior life. Your task is to hold to faith, not pride, and to trust the root that supports you.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM as the root of your being and revise your sense of self to that grafted state. For a few minutes, feel the root nourishing you and declare: I am in the Tree of Life; I stand in faith.