Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 31:3-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 31 in context

Scripture Focus

3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

4The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

5Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

7Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

Ezekiel 31:3-9

Biblical Context

Behold a mighty cedar of Lebanon—Assyria—growing tall and fair, drawn up by waters. Its height and beauty invite envy from all the trees in Eden.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here you are not looking at a nation, but at your own state of consciousness when you identify with power, status, and worldly supremacy. The waters that lift him are the life-stream of imagination, the ongoing sensation you grant to your sense of self. When you say, 'I am this topmost tree,' you feel the pull of air and the gaze of nations; you experience the sense of a self that cannot be hidden, a self that seems protected by a shadowing shroud. Yet the inner truth is not the tree—it is the Life that nourishes the tree. The garden of God and the other trees envy the cedar because their awareness is separate from the root. The verse's final claim, 'I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches,' is God’s voice within you declaring that your entire world springs from the imagination you assent to as real. If you are to dissolve pride or fear, you revise your image to acknowledge that you are the life-energy behind every appearance, and you align with that life rather than the ego’s height.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise: imagine you are rooted by great waters, the I AM feeding your image. Then feel the assurance: 'I AM the cedar and the garden of God; my splendor flows from awareness, not from external form.'