Inner Temples of Hosea
Hosea 8:14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Israel has forgotten its Maker and clung to temples and fortified cities. Hosea warns that inner forgetting invites a fire that burns the very structures you trust.
Neville's Inner Vision
Viewing Hosea through the I AM, you observe that the so-called Maker is the awareness you are. When you forget this Maker, you turn to temples and walls as if they could bless or secure you. The temples you build and the cities you fence are not punishments from afar; they are projections of a mind that has forgotten where power truly resides. The fire that Hosea promises is the natural reaction of consciousness when it substitutes symbols for self-remembering. In your present, you are invited to awaken as the one who names and claims his own reality. The inner fire dissolves the illusion of external security when you choose to inhabit the feeling of I AM at the center—an unshakable sense that you are the creator, not the created. As you assume and feel that you are the maker, the outer walls recede and your life rearranges itself to reflect the harmony of your inner state.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and repeat inwardly 'I AM the maker of my world.' Feel that sense and revise any thought of external security by declaring, 'My inner state creates my outer conditions' and let the feeling linger a few minutes.
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