Neville Goddard on Isaiah 57:1-5 - 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.

3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

Isaiah 57:1-5

Biblical Context

The passage contrasts the fate of the righteous with the idolatrous behavior of others, promising peace for the upright while warning against worship of external idols and deceptive rituals.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the righteous perishing is not a historical event but a state of consciousness waking from the dream that life is outside awareness. When I align with the I AM, I enter peace and rest in uprightness, and the sense of threat falls away. The 'sons of the sorceress' and the 'seed of the adulterer and the whore' symbolize thinking that wields power through magic, images, or sensual attachments—beliefs that life comes from appearances. Idols under every green tree are the mind clinging to external tokens rather than awakening to inner presence. Slaying the children in the valleys is the suppression of intuition by fear or falsehood. Turn from these projections and return to the I AM within. In that return, I walk in peace, live uprightly, and discover holiness as my natural state. The world then reflects this inner truth, not the other way around.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes, assume you are the I AM; feel the inner peace as your current state, and revise any longing for idols by saying, 'I rest now in upright consciousness.'