Neville Goddard on Isaiah 21:1-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 21 in context

Scripture Focus

1The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

3Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Isaiah 21:1-4

Biblical Context

Isaiah 21:1-4 portrays a desert burden and a grievous vision of betrayal and spoil, followed by the speaker’s fear and inner upheaval.

Neville's Inner Vision

All of Isaiah's desert storm is whispered within your own consciousness. The burden, the whirlwind from a terrible land, is the pressure of a thought-form you have not yet released. The grievous vision and the treachery are not prophecies but inner moves - your mind trying to persuade you that you are at the mercy of forces outside your I AM. When you hear Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media, hear it as your inner self commanding you to rise above the old states, to siege the maps of limitation and replace them with the sovereign idea: I AM that I AM. The pangs of birth-pains you feel are the birth-pains of a new consciousness; the bowed and dismayed heart is your old self bending to a higher image. Let the night of your pleasure be turned into a disciplined awareness: you are not its victim but its author. Your task is to dwell as the unconditioned I AM, imagining and feeling the fulfilled state here and now.