Neville Goddard on Hosea 4:11-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 4 in context

Scripture Focus

11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

Hosea 4:11-12

Biblical Context

The verses warn that sensual indulgence and seeking guidance from external signs pull the heart away from God, revealing idolatry and a drift from true worship. The inner center is displaced by reliance on worldly cues and cravings.

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 4:11–12 unveils the inner drama: when the mind leans into whoredom—likened to wine and new wine—it loses its heart, the decisive center of awareness. We consult stocks and staff, the external signs and voices, and in doing so abandon the God within. In Neville’s vision, this is not history but a state of consciousness—an endless cycle of believing in separation from the I AM. The 'spirit of whoredoms' is the conviction that life comes from appearances and impulses rather than the eternal presence of God. To awaken is to reverse the scene: withdraw allegiance from shifting sense-pleasures and attend to the one constant presence, the I AM, the inner covenant keeper. When you assume the feeling of present divine guidance, external voices lose their claim and your heart returns to obedience to the singular covenant. See your world as a dream of the self in which the inner conviction of unity with God is made visible.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare, 'I am one with God; my heart remains unmoved by wine, by external counsel, or any sign apart from the I AM.' Then rest in the felt sense of that inner alignment.