Neville Goddard on Psalms 135:15-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 135 in context

Scripture Focus

15The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

16They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

17They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

18They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

Psalms 135:15-18

Biblical Context

Verse 135:15-18 contrasts lifeless idols—silver and gold, the work of human hands—with the living reality of trust. It warns that those who place their faith in such forms become like them: silent, sightless, breathless.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s psychology the idols are fixed images of security and worth we clutch in consciousness. Silver and gold stand for external forms we worship—money, status, reputation—props that speak only when we believe in them. The mouths that speak yet utter no truth and the eyes that see yet discern nothing are the habitual thoughts that pretend to decide our fate. When you identify with the makers of these idols you drain your power and become as hollow as the image you worship: your trust sinks into a lifeless scene and your life follows the idol rather than the living I AM behind it. The verse invites a reversal: awaken from dependence on outer forms and re-enter the I AM, the sole source of seeing, hearing, and breath. Worship then becomes a return to a state of consciousness in which the world is formed by your imagination, not by external objects. As you rest in the awareness that you are the creator of your reality, you stop handing life to idols and begin cherishing the living consciousness that animates all.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Sit quietly and assume the I AM as your life and source; declare softly, I am the life and breath of all I see, and visualize the idol dissolving into light as living presence fills your world.