Neville Goddard on Hosea 6:6-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 6 in context

Scripture Focus

6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

Hosea 6:6-9

Biblical Context

God wants mercy and knowledge of Him, not mere sacrifices. The passage shows the people breaking the covenant and priests acting corrupt, leaving violence in their wake.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner sense, the I AM is the covenant keeping force, not a ritual performed to gain favor. When Hosea speaks of mercy over sacrifice, see this as the mind choosing compassion over empty forms. The line about transgressing the covenant points to the ego clinging to outward works while forgetting its divine source. Gilead as a city of iniquity becomes an inner atmosphere where blood-stained thoughts stain perception, and the company of priests who murder in the way by consent reveals thoughts that justify cruelty as merely acceptable. The remedy is to awaken to the truth that you are consciousness, the I AM, here and now. By rooting your awareness in mercy toward yourself and others, you dissolve fear-based habits that produce judgment and violence in life. As you affirm ‘I know God’ as your own awareness, inner conditions shift and the outer world reflects the new covenant—freedom, clarity, and compassionate action.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling that you are Mercy and the Knowledge of God; revise your sense of self as the I AM witnessing all. Spend a minute in the feel-it-real that the inner covenant is kept, and observe how the outer scene softens.