Neville Goddard on Isaiah 32:13-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 32 in context

Scripture Focus

13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

14Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

15Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

Isaiah 32:13-15

Biblical Context

Isaiah 32:13-15 portrays a land of thorns and forsaken joy until the Spirit from on high is poured out; afterward, the wilderness becomes a fruitful field—a transformation in consciousness that precedes any outward change.

Neville's Inner Vision

Isaiah speaks of a land in the mind: the thorns and briers are the stubborn beliefs and habits we treat as real. The 'houses of joy' and the joyous city are the states of feeling we inhabit when aligned with the I AM within. The palaces forsaken and the dens of the forts symbolize old identities and fears that no longer govern us. When the Spirit pours upon us from on high, this internal landscape shifts: the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field thickens into a forest of abundance. The renewal described is not in external geography but in consciousness—an inner creation where imagination reorganizes perception to reflect the divine state. The prophecy’s future is not distant; it is the present result of recognizing and dwelling in the higher I AM, thereby turning lack into abundance and separation into harmony.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: sit quietly, declare, 'I am the Spirit poured upon me now,' and feel your mind expanding into a fruitful field; then revise any lack-based thought into an image of abundance and dwell in its felt reality.