Neville Goddard on Jonah 2:3-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jonah 2 in context

Scripture Focus

3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

Jonah 2:3-7

Biblical Context

Jonah describes being cast into the deep, surrounded by water, yet in the depths he remembers the LORD and prays toward the temple within, trusting in deliverance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Remember, you are not subject to stormy circumstance but to the mind that feels it. The deep and the floods are currents of belief pressing on awareness. When you feel cast into the seas, you are simply consenting to a state of consciousness. Yet in that moment the imagination can lift you, for the temple is the inner awareness in which you dwell. Jonah’s cry, I will look toward thy holy temple, is your own decisive act: turn attention from the waves to the I AM within. The waters may press about the soul, but the depth is a mere mental state; every wave is a thought to be revised. When you remember the LORD—the I AM that you are—the bars and mountains dissolve in memory. Your life is brought up from corruption by the power of remembrance; your prayer enters the temple and becomes reality. Deliverance is not a distant rescue; it is a shift of consciousness, the awakening of your true identity here and now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: close your eyes, breathe deeply, and revise the scene: declare that you are in the temple of your mind now, with every wave resolved by the I AM; feel the deliverance as present, and dwell there for a few minutes.