Neville Goddard on Isaiah 57:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 57 in context

Scripture Focus

1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

2He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Isaiah 57:1-2

Biblical Context

The verses describe the righteous passing away and merciful ones being taken, not as tragedy but as a shift from fear to peace, resting in uprightness. It points to an inward rest born of consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville lens, the so-called 'righteous' and 'merciful' are inner states of consciousness, not external people. The appearance that they perish signals a release of a deadened future-tense identity—the ego’s fear of coming trouble—that no one lays to heart because it is only a belief. Yet to be 'taken away from the evil to come' is to be cut loose from negative projection and return to the I AM that animates every moment. 'He shall enter into peace' signifies a decisive rest in awareness, a living alignment with your uprightness—the integrity of your true self. The image of resting in beds is the mind's repose in certainty, where thoughts walk in harmony with the I AM. When you assume that you already dwell in this peace, you reverse the imagined death of your old state and invite the new sight into your life. The outer seems to shift to reflect the inner awakening; consciousness becomes the only reality, and peace replaces fear as your natural condition.