Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 8:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 8 in context

Scripture Focus

1At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

2And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

Jeremiah 8:1-2

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 8:1-2 shows a judgment scene where leaders and townsfolk, having worshiped idols and the heavens, are exposed as their inner loyalties crumble. The imagery of bones and unburied remains signals the emptiness of false worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that the 'bones' are not corpses but the severed parts of your own consciousness you have left to rot in the shadow of idols. The kings, princes, priests, and prophets symbolize every department of life you once led with inner authority, now scattered by your allegiance to signs—the sun, the moon, the host of heaven. When you worship outward forms, you separate your awareness from its own light, and your inner movements are left uncoordinated and exposed to the day; you do not gather them into a coherent life, because you have made external worship your god. In this inner view, this is the moment of judgment: the image you have enthroned becomes dung upon the earth, not because God condemns you but because your consciousness has delegated its power to created signs. Yet this is not failure but a diagnosis and a doorway. The remedy is to awaken to I AM as the sole awareness behind all perception, to revise every outward idol by affirming that you are the I AM, and that all apparent 'other gods' are only scenes within you, which you now reign over.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, feel the I AM at the center of your being, and revise any idol by declaring, 'I am the Lord of this life.' Then visualize gathering the scattered bones of former worship and burying them in a soil of true inner reverence to I AM.