Neville Goddard on Ezekiel 8:14-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ezekiel 8 in context

Scripture Focus

14Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

15Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

16And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

17Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

Ezekiel 8:14-17

Biblical Context

Ezekiel 8:14-17 shows women weeping for Tammuz at the gate, then men in the inner court turning their backs to the temple to worship the sun. It exposes outward rites as abominations that provoke anger because true worship is displaced by ritual images.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the temple is the field of awareness; the scenes Ezekiel witnesses are your own mental pictures when you forget who you are. The north gate, the tears for Tammuz, the men facing east to worship the sun—these are symbols of worship directed outward, away from the I AM that you are. When you treat appearances as real and external powers as controlling, you have made your mind a theater of abominations, and the inner life becomes violent with fear and doubt. The anger God expresses is not punishment but the consternation of consciousness when it misplaces worship. The cure is simple and total: turn your attention from the external form and align with the I AM, the living sun within. Assume the state that you are the temple and that awareness is the only true altar. In that revision, the outer scenes lose their charge, and a calm, radiant order replaces the former turmoil. Begin to dwell in that inner temple now, and let your world reflect the shift as if it were already real.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes, declare 'I AM the temple,' and revise any image of outward worship to an inner sun of awareness. Sit with that feeling until it rests as real.