Inner Burden Of Babylon
Isaiah 13:1 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 13 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Isaiah sees a burden, Babylon, as a vision of a weighty external power. The verse invites recognition that such burdens originate in our inner state, not only in outward events.
Neville's Inner Vision
Your mind is the Isaiah who stands within a moment of noticing a burden called Babylon. The burden is not a future empire but a present state of consciousness you have accepted as real. When you 'see' Babylon, you are waking the I AM to the fact that you are not bound by it; you are simply identifying with a thought you have rehearsed until it seems to rule your life. In Neville's language, God is your awareness, and the burden is a belief within that awareness. To release it, you do not fight Babylon; you revise your sense of self by assuming the feeling of your wish already fulfilled. Imagination becomes the alchemy: imagine yourself free, whole, and upright, letting the burden dissolve in the light of your I AM. The moment you persist in this revised state, you awaken a new inner motion that repatterns your external world. The Babylon you see becomes the doorway through which you enter the Kingdom within.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and say 'I AM.' Imagine the burden fading as you assume the feeling of freedom and wholeness in your present moment.
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