Neville Goddard on Hosea 3:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 3 in context

Scripture Focus

1Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

2So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

Hosea 3:1-2

Biblical Context

Hosea 3:1-2 shows God telling Hosea to love an adulterous wife, symbolizing Israel's unfaithfulness and God's covenant mercy. The purchase with money and barley signals that reconciliation comes from steadfast grace, not effort alone.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice the scene as inner life, not history: the Lord speaks to you as the I AM, directing you to love the part of you that has wandered into other gods and distractions. The woman beloved of her friend, an adulteress, is your own divided self, drawn away by appetites and appearances. The command to go and love is a command to return your attention, to refuse to condemn, and to treat every fragment of consciousness with the tenderness of a master who sees unity behind multiplicity. The act of buying her back with silver and barley becomes a symbol of the price your inner wealth places on reconciliation—your choice, your time, your devotion, poured into the drama of return. In this inner drama, mercy precedes judgment; grace precedes reform. As you embody the same forgiving posture toward yourself, you find that the pieces of your life that seemed lost are restored not by duty, but by the awareness that you are forever the beloved of the I AM. Your present feeling, not external acts, reconstitutes the covenant.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the stance I AM loves me and I am restored now. Feel the interior acceptance as if the wandering self were already reconciled; repeat for a minute, until the sense of return is real.