Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 31:5-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 31 in context

Scripture Focus

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 31:5-9

Biblical Context

The passage depicts a mighty tree exalted above all, its branches fed by abundant waters, shading birds and beasts and drawing great nations. Its root by the great waters signals an inner source of life and authority.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Ezekiel’s vision, the cedar is not an outside empire but the state of your own consciousness. Height, the measure of your awareness; branches, the ideas that grow when the inner waters—your living feelings—flow freely from root to leaf. When you permit this multitude of waters to saturate your root, your life expands, and you become a sheltering shade for all beings in your field of attention. The birds and the beasts are your thoughts and impulses; they take residence in your branches or seek elsewhere according to your recognition of the kingdom you are. Remember, no external tree can hide you when your root drinks from great waters—your beauty is born of inner life, not external show. I have made you fair by the multitude of your branches: your Edenic power is your inner order of feeling and imagination, not a claim over others. If you accept this as true now, all the trees of Eden will envy the maturity of your state, for you stand as the realized I AM.

Practice This Now

Assume today that you are the tree of life, rooted by the waters of your I AM, and feel the expansion as your branches lengthen. Silently repeat, 'I AM the tree of abundance; I am exalted above limitation' until it feels real.