Neville Goddard on Isaiah 5:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 5 in context

Scripture Focus

1Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

Isaiah 5:1-2

Biblical Context

The vineyard represents the cultivated life of your mind; it is tended and prepared, yet it bears wild grapes.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakening mind, Isaiah’s song reveals that the vineyard is the state of consciousness you entertain as your own. The wellbeloved is the I AM within you, the watcher who tended every inch of your inner soil. The fence and the stones cast out old limitations; the choicest vine stands for your true desire when nourished by faith in the feeling that it is already yours. The tower marks your steady concentration, a lookout where you survey the field without fear, and the winepress is the emotional processing by which you extract joy from experience. When the fruit is wild, it is not the land but your habitual thoughts and memories that have grown wild with neglect or fear. The cure is not to modify external events but to align your inner atmosphere to the end you seek: imagine the fruit you desire, assume the state of its harvest, and dwell in that feeling until it becomes your living consciousness. You are not petitioning a distant God; you are awakening to the I AM that is always within.