Neville Goddard on Isaiah 63:17-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 63 in context

Scripture Focus

17O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

18The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Isaiah 63:17-18

Biblical Context

These verses confess wandering from God's ways and a hardened heart. They plead for return and restoration to the holy inheritance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as Neville would, Isaiah 63:17-18 speaks not of distant geography but of your inner state. The line 'O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways' reveals a mindset that has wandered from the I AM, from the awareness that you are the God of your own experience; the 'fear' is a mood that has grown cold. When you 'return' for thy servants' sake, you recall your divine inheritance—the holy image you never left, only forgot. The 'people of thy holiness' have possessed it but a little while, and adversaries trod the sanctuary within; these adversaries are thoughts and memories that contradict the truth you now choose to live. Neville teaches that you are always the I AM, and imagination creates reality. So revise the scene inwardly: choose the present feeling of restoration, assume the state of being already at home in the temple. Let the inner sanctuary be sanctified by your current feeling, and dwell there until the outer sense of exile dissolves, leaving you standing in the restored holy place within.