Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 19:13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 19 in context

Scripture Focus

13And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

Jeremiah 19:13

Biblical Context

Jerusalem and the houses of Judah's kings will be defiled. This occurs because people have burned incense to the host of heaven on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah speaks of defilement of places; in Neville terms these places are your inner rooms and beliefs. The 'houses of Jerusalem' and 'kings of Judah' symbolize fixed attitudes about power, security, and worth. When you burn incense to the 'host of heaven'—stories and images you worship as external gods on the roofs of your mind—you pour offerings to many gods. This is the inner Tophet, a furnace of wanting and fear that consumes peace. The judgment described is not punishment from without but a pointing to your current state of consciousness: you have given your inner temple to idols. The healing is to revise your assumption: the I AM within you is the sole ruler of your inner world. As you shift attention away from external powers and toward the one life within, your inner temple is purified and the power of idols wanes. You begin to dwell in the consciousness that all power, all presence, is the I AM present here.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine the inner temple being swept clean; revise by saying, I AM the sole ruler here. Feel the I AM presence filling every room, displacing every idol.