Neville Goddard on Hosea 4:13-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 4 in context

Scripture Focus

13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

Hosea 4:13-14

Biblical Context

The verse links ritual sacrifices on hills with family immorality, declaring that such rites accompany a people who do not understand. Because of that ignorance, judgment and downfall follow.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the mountains of sacrifice you call worship are images within your own consciousness. When you hurry to outer rites, you invest energy in shadows and displace the I AM that you truly are. The 'daughters' and 'spouses' are not people apart from you; they are facets of your own attachment and fear acting on the mind's stage. The verse offers no punitive God but the law of consciousness: what you cling to in form, you abandon in truth, and you fall out of understanding. If you would reverse the pattern, turn your attention to the one enduring awareness you are—the I AM. Let the outer theater dissolve by affirming inner unity, and see how the whole drama of whoredoms and judgments dissolves as your inner state reorients to harmony, clarity, and love. In this light, true worship is simply the steadfast recognition that you are inseparable from divine consciousness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in quiet, assume the I AM as your only reality for five minutes, and revise one current habit or ritual as an outer sign of your inner devotion.