Neville Goddard on Revelation 17:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Revelation 17 in context

Scripture Focus

4And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

5And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Revelation 17:4-5

Biblical Context

The passage depicts a symbolic woman adorned with purple, scarlet, gold, and pearls, holding a cup full of abominations. It signals how outward wealth and ritual can mask a deeper worship of false power.

Neville's Inner Vision

All that you see as the woman arrayed in purple and scarlet, decked with gold and pearls, is not 'out there' but in here as a state of consciousness you entertain. The lavish cup she holds is the vessel of your own thoughts—habits that pretend to satisfy yet feed abominations when fear rules your choices. The forehead mark MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT is the belief that life comes from external engines, from systems or authorities apart from the I AM within. In Neville’s terms, you are not observing a literal queen but your own mind's counterfeit worship: you have enthroned separation and call it reality. And yet the power to overturn this is also within you—the act of assuming a new possibility, feeling it as real, and letting the scene revise itself under the law of imagination. When you settle in the I AM, worship becomes inner alignment rather than outer ceremony; wealth, status, and ritual lose their tyrannical pull and become signs of your spiritual abundance capable of blessing rather than corrupting.

Practice This Now

Practice: Sit, close your eyes, and revise the scene by declaring, I AM the source of all wealth and truth; I worship within. Feel the inner light dissolve attachment to outward symbols and imagine wealth as inner abundance circulating in love and service.