Neville Goddard on Revelation 9:1-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Revelation 9 in context

Scripture Focus

1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

5And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

9And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

10And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

11And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

Revelation 9:1-11

Biblical Context

In Revelation 9:1-11, a star opens a bottomless pit and smoke rises, releasing locusts that torment those without the seal of God for five months; the scene centers on inner fears rather than literal insects.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the vision is not a future disaster but an inner drama. The 'star' falling and the key to the pit symbolize a moment when awareness enters the unconscious. The smoke darkening the sun and air represents the dimming of clear perception by habitual thoughts. The locusts' power to torment those without the seal mirrors persistent mental images that haunt you when you forget who you are. Their five months of torment reflect a symbolic, finite period of inner focus on fear, not a literal external attack. The 'king' Abaddon/Apollyon is the ruling thought that governs the battlefield of your mind. Yet the invitation remains: you can seal your forehead with the awareness of your true I AM, withdraw attention from the toxic drama, and revise the scene with a new assumption. By choosing the I AM as your center, you transmute appearances through inner vision, changing the tempo of life from torment to peace. The plague reveals the power to awaken; when you realize you are the perceiver, you alter what you are willing to experience.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly and assume the I AM as your center; imagine the pit sealing shut and the torment dissolving, and rest in that calm for five minutes.