Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 36:21-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 36 in context

Scripture Focus

21So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.

22Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

23And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

Jeremiah 36:21-23

Biblical Context

The king's court has the scroll read aloud, and as it is read, the roll is cut into pieces and cast into the fire until it is completely consumed.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the royal act becomes a mirror of your inner state. The king is the ego, the scribe and Jehudi the messenger of a found truth, and the scroll is your script of life—the set patterns you have accepted as reality. When the words are read, you may feel compelled to defend the old order; the fire on the hearth is the forward movement of awareness that dissolves the old script. The penknife cutting away leaves is your act of revision—choosing not to repeat yesterday's conclusions, but to let the familiar fall away so a new meaning may emerge. Your true I AM does not perish with the parchment; it is the awareness that remains, untouched by the flames, and from the ashes a new inner script can arise. The outer destruction is symbolic of an inner cleansing, a surrender to a higher order of imagination. If you accept the fire instead of resisting it, you discover that you are free to invent a life that aligns with your renewed truth, independent of outward prophecies or judgments.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes, imagine the scroll being read aloud, then see it burn away in the hearth. In its place, feel and imagine a new script already alive in you, as if this new truth is true now.