Neville Goddard on Haggai 1:5-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

5Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

9Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

11And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

Haggai 1:5-11

Biblical Context

God admonishes to examine your ways; when you neglect the inner temple, you reap shortage and drought, but rebuilding the temple restores abundance.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage you are called to notice the state of your own consciousness. “Consider your ways” is a directive to audit where your attention and energy reside, for the temple being discussed is the inner sanctuary of I AM; the place where God dwells as your awareness. If you sow much externally yet reap little, if energy leaks into countless small concerns, it signals that the inner temple has been neglected. The droughts—no dew, no fruit—are inner weather reports: your inner life is out of alignment with the divine order. To rebuild is to ascend the mountain of your mind, fetch the wood of deliberate thought, and honor the inner house with faithful attention. When you begin to build with purpose, the I AM within reveals pleasure, and your outer life shifts to reflect that inner order. This is not punishment but a healing alignment—you return to the foundational frequency of abundance by tending the inner sanctuary first.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling: I have rebuilt the inner temple within me and am governed by the I AM. Spend a few minutes inwardly 'going up the mountain' to gather the wood of disciplined thoughts and begin the construction of your inner sanctuary now.