In Neville Goddard’s teaching, the cup symbolises the skull, the head, the inner chamber where belief is held and nourished. The cup represents consciousness containing assumption. What we “drink” inwardly becomes our identity.
From Joseph to Jesus, cups appear as symbols of inner ingestion — the taking in of a state until it becomes flesh.
Joseph’s Silver Cup: The Hidden Contents of the Skull
In Genesis, Joseph hides his silver cup in Benjamin’s sack. Neville would say:
- Silver speaks of redemption — a new value placed on belief.
- The cup is the secret assumption placed within awareness.
- Benjamin, the youngest, symbolises the newly forming identity.
The cup is “discovered” only when life exposes what is within the skull. We carry assumptions unaware, and the world uncovers them for us. The outer story always reveals the drink we have swallowed privately.
Judah’s Surrender: Praise Yielding the Old Story
When Benjamin appears doomed to remain in Egypt, Judah offers himself. Praise yields to the new identity. The symbolic message:
The familiar self — the old story held in the head — must step down so a new concept of self can take its place. Assumption demands inner sacrifice. What is crowned in your mind rules your life.
As Judas (awakened Judah) later yields to Jesus, so the old belief acknowledges the rising authority of imagination.
Jesus and Gethsemane: Drinking the New Identity
In Gethsemane, Jesus cries, “Let this cup pass from me…” He is facing the cost of accepting a new state. The cup is the identity He must consume.
To drink it is to swallow the assumption completely, allowing it to occupy the skull — even unto the death of the old concept of self.
Golgotha means “place of the skull”. This is not geographical — it is psychological. Manifestation happens where imagination is crucified — in the head.
The Cup of Blessing: Union with Fulfilled Desire
Paul says, “the cup of blessing which we bless…” is a sharing in Christ’s life. Neville reads this as taking the desired state into the mind and letting its meaning flow through imagination like blood.
To bless the cup is to accept: I have already become this. Assumption is inner communion.
“My Cup Runneth Over”: The Skull Filled Beyond Doubt
“My cup runneth over” is the experience of consciousness saturated with conviction. When the head is full, the world spills its contents outward.
Overflow is the inevitable outpicturing of belief fully digested.
Your Skull Is the Cup
You are not someone holding a cup. You are the cup.
The skull is the chalice. The imagination is the wine. The assumption is the drink.
What you hold in consciousness, you must consume. And what you consume, you inevitably express.
Every biblical cup scene whispers the same truth:
Drink the state you wish to see — and the world will toast to your conviction.