Neville Goddard on Haggai 1:6-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Haggai 1 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Haggai 1:6-9

Biblical Context

Ye have sown much and bring in little; you eat and are not satisfied, drink but are not filled, and wages vanish into holes. The prophet commands them to consider their ways and to build the Lord’s house, for neglect of the temple is the source of their lack.

Neville's Inner Vision

These lines reveal not a mere material shortage but an inner famine of consciousness. You sow and you gather, yet returns slip away because your mind has neglected its true temple. The sack with holes is your attention, poured into the self-centered house rather than the sacred shrine within. When you hear, 'Consider your ways,' read it as a call to revise the state you inhabit, not only to adjust outward choices. 'Go up to the mountain and bring wood' invites you to draw from imagination the substance of a temple—an inner alignment where will, desire, and gratitude fuse into worship. Build that inner house, and the I AM within takes pleasure; then outer conditions rearrange to reflect order, warmth, and fullness. The apparent lack you experience is the shadow of neglecting the inner shrine. Return to the inner sanctuary, and let your thoughts and feelings serve the divine dwelling, so allowance and plenty follow as natural expressions of the one life within you.