Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 16:15-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 16 in context

Scripture Focus

15But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

16And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

17Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

Ezekiel 16:15-17

Biblical Context

The passage warns that trusting outward beauty and renown leads to spiritual harlotry; true worship requires fidelity to the inner I AM rather than external appearances.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your Ezekiel might seem to accuse a nation of harlotry, but in the Neville sense it is your own mind that has trusted its beauty and renown more than the unchanging I AM within. The beauty you prize is a state of consciousness you dress in opinion and approval; the high places you deck with 'divers colours' are mental landscapes built from shifting judgments, not from the eternal light. The 'images of men' are the pictures you worship—praising, condemning, projecting—made of thought-forms that pass for reality only because you give them power. When you pour out your fornications on every passerby, you are seeking egoic admiration rather than the still, quiet satisfaction of God within. The corrective is simple and radical: withdraw your worship from outward show and align with the covenant of the I AM. Return to that center where you are not the body, not the name, not the opinion, but awareness itself. In that alignment, colors fade, self-importance dissolves, and a single, eternal affection—your true self—reigns.