Inner Prison, Inner King
Jeremiah 32:2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 32 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jeremiah is shut up in the prison court as Jerusalem is besieged by Babylon. This scene also signifies an inner confinement that mirrors the mental prisons we inhabit.
Neville's Inner Vision
Let us read Jeremiah 32:2 not as history alone but as a parable of your inner state. The siege of Jerusalem by Babylon is the manifestation of a belief that has taken form as circumstance. Jeremiah, the prophet within, is imprisoned in the court of the prison, not by bricks, but by a thought-feeling that constrains freedom. The king of Judah's house symbolizes the mind's own structures that house the imprisonment. In Neville's practice, the outer siege reveals an inner assumption: I am this lack, I am this limitation, I am separated from the Kingdom. Yet the scripture hints at the reversal: your true I AM remains unaltered by the siege. To reinterpret, revise from the end: affirm that the inner Jerusalem is already redeemed, that the siege is a dream of form. When you maintain the feeling of freedom as your present state, the Kingdom within awakens, and the city within is restored by awareness.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes, assume the state of I AM and declare you are free now; feel the prison walls dissolve as you dwell in the inner city already renewed.
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