Neville Goddard on Hosea 12:3-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 12 in context

Scripture Focus

3He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:

4Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;

5Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

Hosea 12:3-5

Biblical Context

Jacob wrestles with the divine, prevails through persistence and prayer. Bethel becomes his inner encounter, and the Lord is remembered as the memorial.

Neville's Inner Vision

Read Hosea 12:3-5 as a map of inner ascent. Jacob's birth-wound grip and his 'power with God' reveal the mind's capacity when the I AM awakens. The 'angel' is a shifting inner motif; by turning to the I AM and weeping in petition, you dissolve resistance and invite a conscious encounter. 'He found him in Bethel' marks the inner sanctuary—the point of attention where the divine appears as present tense reality. When the Lord is described as 'his memorial,' you understand that the divine remembrance within is the living memory of God itself—constant, unchanging, and available in imagination. Your belief in lack gives way as you align with the truth that God is within; your imagination can render that presence permanent by feeling it now and treating it as done. Thus the verse becomes an instruction in faith: persist in consciousness, revise until the inner state matches the reality you desire, and let God-awareness become your living memory.

Practice This Now

Practice: Close eyes and breathe into the I AM. Assume you are in Bethel, the inner sanctuary; feel the Lord as your lasting memory and repeat, 'The Lord is my memorial,' until the sense of immediacy remains.