Inner Judgment and Imagination
Isaiah 13:17-18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 13 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Isaiah 13:17-18 portrays God stirring the Medes to bring judgment, where wealth cannot save them and the arrows of destruction strike without mercy. The outer event mirrors inner states of consciousness that you can experience as cleansing.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within the line 'Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,' hear the awakening of a merciless inner faculty when you cling to wealth or outer security. The Medes are not foreigners but the relentless states of consciousness that rise when your attention clings to separate self-preservation. The passage says neither silver nor gold will delight them, meaning wealth cannot shield you from inner change. When you trust in outer props, these inner forces will sweep away old patterns, not out of cruelty, but to reveal your true power: I AM, awareness itself. The bows that dash the young are not weapons of violence but decisive acts of thought that break stubborn beliefs and habits. The eye that spares nothing is the unflinching clarity of consciousness that cannot pretend away fear of loss. If you want freedom, meet the storm with the conviction that you are the I AM, not the world’s demands. Then judgment becomes purification, a turning of the inner weather toward possibility, feel it real, until your life is fashioned by the imagination you truly are.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit quietly and declare, 'I AM the power stirring within me; I revise my belief that wealth protects me,' and feel that shift as real. Observe how the urge to cling softens as you hold this new state.
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