Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 26:19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 26 in context

Scripture Focus

19Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.

2 Chronicles 26:19

Biblical Context

Uzziah, angry with the priests, wields a censer in the sanctuary; the leprosy appearing on his forehead shows the inner consequence of ego attempting sacred service in God's house.

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 19 moves from outward action to inner consequence. The king's wrath and his censer symbolize the ego seizing sacred matter—the belief that 'I' can fashion true worship by force. In the inner theatre, the house of the LORD is the sanctuary of awareness where true worship occurs, not by ritualism but by alignment with the I AM. When Uzziah refuses the priests' boundary and presses his own will into the holy place, the inner climate turns; the forehead becomes the sign of a separated, contaminated state—leprosy as a visible inner fault expressed in form. This is not punishment from without but a mirror of consciousness: when you try to perform the sacred as ego-activity, your life begins to manifest the very disease or obstruction you fear. The only remedy is to return to the original act of worship—the awareness that you are the I AM, not the doer of rites. Permit the self to quiet into presence; revise the sense of self as actor; let the temple be kept pure by your awareness rather than by any external ritual.

Practice This Now

Assume the state 'I AM' is the only actor in your temple. Revise by dropping the ego's censer and resting in pure awareness, allowing fear and fault to dissolve into Presence.