Neville Goddard on Hosea 5:5-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 5 in context

Scripture Focus

5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

Hosea 5:5-6

Biblical Context

Israel’s pride is shown as an inner condition that invites judgment and withdrawal. Outward seeking—flocks and herds—cannot find the Lord because He has withdrawn within.

Neville's Inner Vision

Israel’s pride is a state of consciousness that identifies with image and external outcomes. The passage shows a people who insist on reading themselves through outward measures—signs, flocks, and ritual—and yet the move to find God outside themselves proves the deeper truth: the I AM withdraws when awareness clings to separation. When Hosea says they shall seek the LORD but shall not find Him, that is the working of consciousness in which the ego’s pursuit of substitutes blocks the awareness of the Presence. The withdrawal is not arbitrary punishment but an invitation: distrust the sense that God is apart from you, and revise the assumption that life comes from without. Return to the one internal source—your own I AM, the steady knowing that God is your central reality. In that revised state, the presence becomes palpable as quiet confidence, guidance, and creative flow. The remedy is simple: acknowledge the presence within, and dwell there until the sense of distance dissolves.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and declare, 'I AM within me now,' and feel the presence replace the need to chase outward signs; whenever pride surfaces, revise the scene to the inner recognition that God is here.