Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 28:17-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 28 in context

Scripture Focus

17Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

18Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

19All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

Ezekiel 28:17-19

Biblical Context

The passage depicts a figure whose heart rises in beauty, corrupting wisdom by brightness, and who is cast down and humiliated as a sign of judgment. It ends with the old self becoming a terror and never returning.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, Ezekiel 28:17-19 speaks in the language of inner states. The heart lifted by beauty is a symbol of a consciousness fixated on outward brightness; in that fixation wisdom is bent, and the self believes its images are real. Yet the I AM within knows that no external radiance can define you. When you identify with that outer light, you are cast down in the sense that your old self is dissolved before the inner audience—the kings of your imagined life. The fire that emerges is the releasing of that unrevealed self, devouring the outdated ego so that ash is all that remains where fear once stood. Those who think they knew you are astonished because your new figure, rooted in consciousness, appears as a terror to the former you. But this is not punishment; it is awakening. The transformation is internal, a shift in what you accept as real, and in the way you live from I AM rather than from image.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling, 'I AM the brightness that creates, but I am not it.' Revise any self-image that worships outer beauty, and then feel it real: the inner fire consuming the old ego, leaving you standing before your inner kings as the true I AM.