Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 5 in context

Scripture Focus

1Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

2Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

Ecclesiastes 5:1-3

Biblical Context

Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 exhorts careful worship: guard your steps and listen first. True worship arises from inner stillness, not outward noise.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the temple of my own consciousness, the house of God is not a place I go, but the place I AM. To keep thy foot is to set the feet of attention upon the stillness of now, guarding movement of thought as I would guard steps on sacred ground. The fools rush to sacrifice through words, but the wise listen, letting the heart be ready to hear rather than to utter. God is in heaven, and I am upon earth; hence, my speech must be measured, my questions gentle, my petitions concise. When the mind is crowded with business, dreams slip away into the clatter of noise; in the silence, authentic dream-things arise—the visions I desire—seeing the end already accomplished in imagination, not in argument. So I revise my inner talk: I remove doubt and demand; I speak only the words that align with the state I seek. The I AM within answers, not by loudness, but by quiet certainty. In this, the day’s events become a dream-light of a reality formed within me.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: At day’s end, sit quietly and assume the state I am listening within. Let a single, purposeful sentence arise in your mind and hold it as real for a minute, letting your prayers be guided by the I AM.