Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 51:57 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 51 in context

Scripture Focus

57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 51:57

Biblical Context

Babylonian rulers are pictured as intoxicated and asleep, signaling the cessation of their outward power. The inner reading reveals these rulers as aspects of the mind, temporarily quieted by the true sovereignty of the I AM.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah 51:57 becomes a law of inner life. The 'princes, wise men, captains, rulers, and mighty men' are not far-off conquerors but the various states of your own consciousness—fear, pride, control, habit, and judgment. When the King appears as the I AM—the LORD of hosts—these inner authorities drink the wine of fear and fall asleep. This sleep is not annihilation but a shift of power: awareness remains constant, and the old voices cease to govern your days. The verse invites you to withdraw attention from the outside court and rest in the throne of your true self. If you affirm, 'I am the King of hosts in this mind,' those energies quiet and your life moves from struggle toward steady power. Practically, you become the witness rather than the slave, watching thoughts without feeding them, while the sovereign presence of I AM presides over the scene.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the inner scene that you are the Lord of hosts in this mind; revise a mounting anxious thought by saying, 'I AM the King, and these voices sleep now,' and feel the stillness as real.