Neville Goddard on Isaiah 64:6-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 64 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

9Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

Isaiah 64:6-9

Biblical Context

It acknowledges human frailty and the sense of unworthiness, yet invites turning to God as Father. It frames us as clay in the potter’s hands, ready for renewal.

Neville's Inner Vision

Reader, Isaiah is not telling you about distant judgments but about your own state of consciousness. When it says that we are all as an unclean thing and our righteousness as filthy rags, it is naming the belief that I am separate from the I AM and that what I have done defines me. In Neville’s terms, the “wind” of iniquity is a moving thought—an old self that drifts when I forget who I am. Yet the verse offers a turn: ‘But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter.’ Notice the shift from victim to vessel. You are not cast aside; you are clay awaiting the potter. The I AM is not distant; it is the one awareness that sews your life together. When you call on the name, you awaken to the truth that you are the work of His hand. Be not wroth with yourself; forgive the imagined past as you imagine the future already formed by love. Restoration is not coming; it is the revision of your inner state, a renewal that begins in consciousness and expresses as life.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, assume you are the clay in the potter’s hands, held by the I AM. Feel the restoration as your present reality, and let that feeling refashion every old belief.