Jeremiah 5:31 Meaning The Prophets Prophesy Falsely

A self can be governed by its own false voices and come to prefer the deception. The prophets are the imaginative faculty that should foresee truth but instead spins comforting lies, and the priests are the parts that mediate between the higher and the lower which have taken their rule from that falsehood. When the inner powers meant to guide a person are corrupt, the whole inward order bends to serve appearance.

My people are the ordinary faculties, the many energies of the self, and they love to have it so because the deceived condition is easier than waking. The closing question points to the reckoning inside a person: a consciousness built on its own flattering illusions must one day face what those illusions cannot answer.

Prophets: the imaginative faculty meant to foresee truth, here spinning flattering falsehood instead. Priests: the mediating powers between higher and lower self, ruling on the strength of that false vision. People: the ordinary faculties and energies of the self, content to be deceived because waking is harder.