Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 17:3-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 17 in context

Scripture Focus

3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

4He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

5He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

6And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

7There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

8It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

9Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

Ezekiel 17:3-9

Biblical Context

An eagle seizes the cedar's top and plants a vine elsewhere by waters, with roots turning toward the source. The Lord then asks if this vine will prosper or wither, warning that its fate depends on true nourishment.

Neville's Inner Vision

Two eagles are two states of consciousness that press upon your awareness; the cedar is your present assumption, and the vine is your inner state of becoming. When you notice the vine stretching toward water, you are not begging for circumstances to change; you are changing the terms by which you feel and imagine. The land of traffick and the merchant city signify the external world, but the root and furrows of your plantation are your inner channels—imagination feeding belief. To prosper is not a future event but a present acknowledgment: I am the source, I am the water, I am the root. If you revise the sense of separation and persist in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, the vine will sprout new branches and the outward scene will follow the inner conviction. The eagles fade when you dwell in that inner unity, and renewal becomes your experienced reality.