Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 2:21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 2 in context

Scripture Focus

21For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

Biblical Context

The verse contrasts a man whose labor is in wisdom, knowledge, and equity with the one who will receive the fruit without that labor, and calls this vanity and evil. It points to the irony of outer outcomes appearing apart from inner toil.

Neville's Inner Vision

Ecclesiastes presents a paradox: a man who labors in wisdom, knowledge, and equity will still leave the fruit to someone who did not labor there. In Neville's sense, the outer scene is the echo of an inner state. If you dwell in a consciousness that believes wisdom and equity are yours, you will reap proportionate portions, even if another seems to receive without that labor. The vanity and great evil arise when you measure life by outward fairness while failing to cultivate the inner image that produces results. Providence and God are the I AM you are; your awareness molds events as surely as a seed grows into fruit. Therefore, revise your state: acknowledge that you are the laborer who does the inner work, and imagine the portion already yours as the natural fruit of that inner discipline. Do not envy the appearance of another's harvest; instead, remain faithful to the inner act and let your consciousness bear the fruit in due season.

Practice This Now

Assume the end and feel it real: sit quietly and imagine the fruit as already yours, produced by your inner labor in wisdom and equity, and let that feeling saturate you for 5 minutes.