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Passage Analysis: Matthew 17

"Jesus Only": Matthew 17:8–13 Interpreted Through the Law of Assumption

Matthew 17:8–13 is not a mystical episode about heavenly beings glowing on a mountaintop. When read through the Law of Assumption, as taught by Neville Goddard, it reveals a clear and powerful shift in consciousness: the moment when all outside forms of authority fall away, and only your assumption—your accepted state of being—remains. “They saw no man, save Jesus only.” This is the key phrase in the passage. It’s not a minor detail—it’s the message. Moses and Elijah appear with Jesus during the Transfiguration. But when the disciples lift their eyes after falling in fear, those two figures are gone. Only Jesus remains. In the Law of Assumption, this means you’ve stopped looking to external frameworks (Moses, the law) or future expectations (Elijah, the prophet) as your source of direction or authority. Instead, you recognise your own I AM—the awareness of being—as the sole creative power . You stop seeking validation outside yourself. You no longer ask, “What does the law say?” o...

From Veil to Vision: The Light That Unfolds Within

with Scriptural Texts and Symbolic Interpretation When Moses descended from the mount, his face burned with borrowed light— a shimmered echo of divine encounter. The people saw it and drew back. So he veiled it. The glory was too much, too other, too outside themselves . “And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand... that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him... And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.” — Exodus 34:29–30 (KJV) In Neville Goddard’s language, Moses represents the first stirring of awareness —the dawning realisation that imagination and God are one. But the light is still reflected —it comes from communion with something perceived as other . The veiling of the face symbolises how the early consciousness hides this truth, even from itself. It’s not yet ready to fully accept th...