Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 23:19-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 23 in context

Scripture Focus

19Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

Ezekiel 23:19-21

Biblical Context

The passage presents a figure calling to mind past youth and the Egypt-born appetites that once ruled her. It frames repeated attachment to outward desires as spiritual unfaith.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the scripture is not a record of outward acts but a map of inner states. 'Yet she multiplied her whoredoms' points to the mind multiplying images that promise wholeness through external gratification. The 'days of her youth' are a shapeshift of consciousness—the moment you believed you were separate from the I AM. 'In the land of Egypt' signals a habitual atmosphere where you seek substitutes for true life—sensations, roles, idols of imagery. The 'paramours' and their 'flesh' and 'issue' are pictures formed in imagination that entice with appearance rather than truth. When you 'remember' these patterns, you re-energize them by living them again in the present. Neville's practice is to reverse this by turning inward and assuming the I AM now, letting the old scenes collapse into awareness. The memory becomes a doorway, not a prison, when you acknowledge you are the consciousness that creates every moment. Rehearse that you are one with God, and the lewdness of the past loses its force as you rest in the indwelling awareness you are.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and assume the I AM as the author of the memory, revising the scene to reflect your present unity. Feel the new alignment as already real, letting the old images fade in the warmth of awareness.