Neville Goddard on Isaiah 64:5-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 64 in context

Scripture Focus

5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Isaiah 64:5-6

Biblical Context

The passage contrasts human frailty with divine readiness. It says that God meets those who rejoice and live by the ways, while humans acknowledge sin and the fragility of personal righteousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner economy of consciousness, the verse speaks to your current state of being. When you inhabit a joyous, right-acting state, you are met by the I AM—the enduring awareness that you are one with divine order. The confession that we have sinned points to the old habit of separation in the mind; the claim that our righteousness is as filthy rags shows that clinging to past deeds cannot secure lasting good. The imagery of fading leaves and iniquities blown away by the wind reveals how a belief in separation dissolves when you shift your focus to present, unconditioned consciousness. Salvation is not a distant reward but a present realization: your essential nature is already aligned with the divine. The continuance lies in persistently returning to that state, choosing to dwell in the assurance of your unity with God, here and now.

Practice This Now

Sit in quiet awareness and assume the state of being already reconciled with the divine. Feel the I AM as present, joyous, and righteous, and remain with that sense for several minutes, letting guilt and old judgments dissolve as you embody salvation now.