Neville Goddard on Jonah 2:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jonah 2 in context

Scripture Focus

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 2:6-7

Biblical Context

Jonah sinks to the bottoms of the mountains and is bound by the earth, yet God restores his life. In that moment he remembers the LORD and his prayer enters the inner temple.

Neville's Inner Vision

You are not reading a history lesson but a map of your own mind. When the text says I went down to the bottoms of the mountains, you are descending into the deepest state of your consciousness where fixed patterns and fears lodge like stone; the earth with her bars about me forever is the sense that this fortified state cannot be moved by external forces. Yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God speaks to the I AM within you: awareness that never died, only asleep behind forms. When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD is the turning of attention back to the source of life, the I AM. And my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple marks the moment your prayer shifts from petition to recognition, from longing to realization, arriving inside the inner sanctuary where you are already whole. This is salvation, not in external rescue, but in awakening to your own divine presence and the love that is always present.

Practice This Now

Imaginatively take your seat in the inner temple and declare I AM; feel the lift as the sense of bondage dissolves. Revise your state as already saved and let that feeling-state endure for a minute.