Neville Goddard on Proverbs 5:3-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Proverbs 5 in context

Scripture Focus

3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Proverbs 5:3-5

Biblical Context

These verses warn that seductive imagery appears sweet but ends in bitterness and ruin, leading one toward death and hell. The lure is a test of discernment within consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the 'strange woman' in this text is not an outsider but a figure that arises in your inner landscape as a thought or image. Her lips, honeyed words and smooth speech, tempt you to mistake sensation for truth, to trade the quiet I AM for a flicker of desire. The scripture does not condemn bodies; it reveals a psychic trap: sweetness that ends in wormwood, a sharp two-edged sword that severs alignment with life. In Neville terms, danger appears when you identify with an appearance rather than with the eternal awareness that you are. Happiness is not found in the image of pleasure but in the awareness that remains behind it—the I AM, the sole reality of your being. The remedy is a shift of state: refuse identification with the tempting form, and assume a new consciousness that witnesses the image and declares, 'I am the I AM; this is not my true self.' By consistently returning to that awareness, the momentary lure dissolves, and you are carried into life, where every step is a choosing of the real over the seeming.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and imagine the 'sweet speech' fading as you repeat, 'I am the I AM, and I choose life now.' Feel the sense of awareness anchoring you and let the image dissolve into light.