Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 2:22-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 2 in context

Scripture Focus

22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

23How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

Jeremiah 2:22-23

Biblical Context

Outward washings cannot cleanse inner guilt. True purification comes from transforming consciousness and turning toward the I AM rather than idols.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah speaks to the inner man: no amount of nitre can cleanse a state of consciousness. I see that the stain you call guilt is not a mark on the skin but a belief you hold about yourself. You may say, "I am not polluted," yet you wander the valley like a swift dromedary, chasing appearances and proving to yourself that you are defined by your doings. The Baals, the idols of self-will, fear, and habit, dominate until you turn from them inwardly. Repentance, in this sense, is a turning of perception: I shift from external rites to the I AM within, and acknowledge that I am one with God, spotless in that awareness. When I claim that I AM, I erase the sense of separation and the so-called pollution dissolves in the light of consciousness. The outer washings cannot reach the inner state; the cure is interior recognition. The valley can become a temple in which I live as the I AM, not as the sinner.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, declare "I am the I AM, unpolluted and whole," and imagine washing away guilt by that inner recognition; revise the memory by saying: "In God I am clean; nothing separates me from divine love."