Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 23:5-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 23 in context

Scripture Focus

5And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

6Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

7Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

8Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

9Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

Ezekiel 23:5-9

Biblical Context

Ezekiel 23:5-9 portrays Aholah turning to Assyria and Egypt, embracing idols and lovers, and being delivered into their hands as a consequence of those loyalties.

Neville's Inner Vision

To my awareness, Aholah is a state of consciousness that has handed itself over to external powers. The blue captains, the lovers, and their idols represent thoughts and images you prize outside the I AM—attaching your sense of well-being to outcomes you imagine others or conditions can provide. When you identify with these projections, your inner temple is defiled by what you worship outside of you. The exile spoken of is the corrective nudge of life, delivering the self you have projected to those very “lovers” so you may awaken. The cure is simple: return to the One I AM, the ever-present governor of your inner life. Withdraw your attention from outward symbols, revise the belief “this condition makes me safe,” and re-imagine yourself as the consciousness that imagines rather than is imagined. In that inward alignment, true worship returns and the scene changes from defilement to harmony, because the only power that creates is the I AM within you.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the state 'I AM' as the ruler of your inner life. Revise a recent longing for approval by affirming, 'I am the source of all that I seek,' and feel it real.