Neville Goddard on Hosea 7:4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Hosea 7 in context

Scripture Focus

4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

Hosea 7:4

Biblical Context

The verse depicts people as adulterers, like an oven that stays hot and stops rising after kneading until the dough leavens.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner state is an oven; the adulterer is the habit of divided allegiance. The baker of your life is the I AM - your focused consciousness - that heats the dough of circumstance. When the heated state stops rising after kneading, the dough becomes leavened with fear, appetite, or compromise. This is not a condemnation of others but a mirror of your inner consent to division. In Neville's method, you reverse the process by assuming a single, true condition as already real - your unity with God. Keep the heat of awareness fixed on that state until every aspect of life catches up, and the leavened call of impurity dissolves into wholeness. Realize that you are the oven, the baker, and the bread; by choosing purity in your imagination, you convert the entire oven into a temple of true worship.

Practice This Now

Assume the state 'I Am pure' as already real and feel it now. Keep your attention on that heat until every impulse rises into wholeness, then bless all you touch with true worship.