Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 44:7-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 44 in context

Scripture Focus

7Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

8In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

9Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Jeremiah 44:7-9

Biblical Context

Jeremiah warns that turning away from the true God and clinging to idols leads to ruin; the people are called to avoid corrupt worship and the consequences of collective guilt.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the scene as a consciousness dilemma. The Israelites’ 'great evil against your souls' is not a historical calamity alone, but a confession that the inner state has idolized something other than the I AM. The so-called gods of Egypt are beliefs that lure you away from your own unity with God within; by worshiping these projected powers you cut off parts of your being, as if your very inheritance were extinguished. Jeremiah names this as a self-willed exile: you go where thoughts fear you, leaving the inner Jerusalem to be a shadow. In Neville’s terms, the entire chapter is a warning that you become what you assent to—when your attention rests on lack, on rival powers, or on collective guilt, you produce separation and ruin. Yet the remedy is immediate and simple: awaken to the fact that you are the I AM, the God of hosts within. When you assume the truth of your unity, you revise the meaning of every circumstance, and the present experience shifts from threat to permission to dwell in wholeness. Allow the mind to return to its natural worship of awareness, and the exile dissolves into a quiet abundance.

Practice This Now

Sit, close your eyes, and declare, I am the I AM; there are no other gods before me. Then imagine a symbolic idol dissolving into light as you feel your inner awareness reclaiming authority over every circumstance.