Neville Goddard on Hosea 2:2-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 2 in context

Scripture Focus

2Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

Hosea 2:2-5

Biblical Context

Hosea 2:2-5 presents a confrontation with Israel's idolatry, urging the inner self to abandon harlotry and return to faithful covenant, with consequences described as exposure and drought.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the reader, I speak as the I AM, the awareness that is always present. Hosea 2:2-5 invites me to see the mother of my beliefs as the subconscious self that hides my true fidelity. The wife and the lovers are the outward cravings that pretend to feed me, but they do not sustain the sense of being. When I plead with her, I am not appealing to a person so much as calling a pattern back to its rightful place—into the unity of the I AM. If I permit harlotry, I strip away the veil, and the desert of fear and thirst reveals the truth: the so-called children of misalignment appear as results born from a disloyal mood. Yet this is not judgment but invitation: return to the one consent—the I AM—where all bread, water, wool, oil, and drink come from the inner life. The mother’s dalliance becomes a mirror of my own drift away from ideal loyalty. The moment I acknowledge that unity, the covenant is renewed, and reality aligns with my inner state.

Practice This Now

Assume the state: I am the I AM, faithful to my inner covenant. Revise any urge for outward bread by feeling that all supply flows from the inner life; feel loyalty blooming in the heart.