Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 10:8-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 10 in context

Scripture Focus

8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

9Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

Jeremiah 10:8-9

Biblical Context

The passage condemns making idols from wood, silver, and gold, calling such manufactured objects vain and foolish. It warns that these external props cannot save or define one’s life.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider this Jeremiah verse as a mirror of your own inner shop of beliefs. The 'stock' and the 'doctrine of vanities' are not in wood or metal; they are the beliefs about power in form. The silver and gold are the symbols your mind clings to as sources of security, identity, and reward. When you say, 'If I have wealth, I am safe,' you have set up an idol with blue and purple robes of status. In Neville's terms, these are inner dispositions masquerading as external things. The 'workman' and the 'founder' are your habitual thoughts, the 'cunning men' your clever strategies to bend reality to your will. Yet the truth of the I AM reveals that imagination is the parent of form; what you reverence in form is only a shadow of your consciousness. By quieting reliance on objects and turning your gaze inward, you begin to worship the Source rather than created things. As you align with the one Presence that is your self, the outer world shifts to reflect that inner reality, and idols dissolve when you accept that imagination shapes all you behold.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, rest in the I AM, and revise: 'I am not moved by forms; I am the awareness that makes them real.' See the idol-like symbols dissolving into light and feel the serenity of unlimited supply with you.