Neville Goddard on Habakkuk 2:18-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Habakkuk 2 in context

Scripture Focus

18What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

Habakkuk 2:18-19

Biblical Context

The passage asks what profit comes from the graven image; such images have no life and cannot teach. It warns that trusting in carved wood or dumb stone is worship of lifeless forms rather than truth.

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine that every idol is not a statue made of wood or stone, but a fixed image formed by your own mind. The maker trusts the image to supply power, status, or certainty, yet it cannot breathe or move; it is a 'teacher of lies' because it enforces limitation. In Goddard's language, the external world is only a reflection of your inner state. When you admire gold and silver around this image, you overlay it with glamour, but there is no life, no breath in the midst of it. The warning to wake to the wood and stone is a reminder that attempting to make life by external means is futile. The true life you seek resides in the I AM, your awareness, the one inner authority that animates all. By refusing to worship perpetually the outer image and by turning consciousness inward, you re-establish the living reality of your assumptions. Your acts of faith and your inner states become the 'breath' that vitalizes form; judgment comes not from punishment but from your consistency of belief and the quality of inner worship you practice.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: identify a current idol-belief, declare, 'I am the I AM now; this image has no power over me,' and feel it real by dwelling in the breath of inner awareness for a minute.