Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 28:1-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 28 in context

Scripture Focus

1The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

2Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

3Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

4With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

5By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

6Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

7Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

8They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

9Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

10Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 28:1-10

Biblical Context

The word confronts the prince of Tyre for boasting, 'I am a God,' using wealth and wisdom to exalt himself; yet he is merely a man, and judgment comes.

Neville's Inner Vision

Ezekiel 28 speaks to a state of consciousness that mistakes power for divinity. The prince of Tyre stands crowned by wisdom, wealth, and craft, and proclaims, in effect, that he sits in the seat of God. Yet the words cut through the glamour: heart lifted up, yet he is a man, and not God, in the hands of the unseen; the brightness is a glittering mask. Read psychologically, this is the ego’s attempt to rule by cunning and possession, a self-made throne built from riches and thought. The “strangers” that come to slay are inner agents of reality—conscience, truth, and the quiet I Am—that strip away the image you wore. When you identify with such power, you are denying the one I Am within you. The judgment is not wrath but a restoration of sight: to know you are the I Am behind every thought, every possession, every title. In that knowing, the illusion of control yields to the effortless sovereignty of awareness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and revise: 'I am the I Am, not the ego-prince of Tyre.' Feel the throne dissolve into inner stillness; let awareness govern your response rather than wealth or title.