Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 27:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 27 in context

Scripture Focus

6Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

7Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

Ezekiel 27:6-7

Biblical Context

Ezekiel portrays Tyre’s ship as a vessel built from luxurious materials—oaks for oars, ivory benches, linen sails, and blue-purple coverings—symbolizing outward wealth and craft.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your eye reads Ezekiel’s ship as a mirror of consciousness. The oaks of Bashan for oars reveal that your decisive will is born of a stout inner life; the benches of ivory from the Ashurites are refined thoughts quietly arranged to serve you. Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt, spread as your sail, signifies imagery and dialogue prepared from long acquaintance with life. The blue and purple from the isles of Elishah, covering thee, speak of states of awareness you assume and wear as a sovereign, inner authority. Tyre’s outward luxury points to the form your inner condition can take when you recognize that wealth is an interior cultivation, not a bank balance. In Neville’s practice, wealth is not a pile in a bank but an inner condition you assume and revise until it feels real. The ship is the feeling of being already supplied; you, the I AM, steer by imagination’s wind. If you sense lack, revise the scene: build a vessel from your cherished states, then feel it real as you breathe and move.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume you are already prosperous; visualize your inner ship with oaks for oars, ivory benches, linen sails, and blue-purple coverings, moved by the wind of I AM awareness. Feel it as real and let the scene linger.