Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 6:1-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 6 in context

Scripture Focus

1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

2A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 6:1-6

Biblical Context

The passage warns of vanity: one may be rich and honored yet unable to enjoy it, and life may extend without true good. Outer conditions do not guarantee inner fullness.

Neville's Inner Vision

That 'evil' is a state of consciousness, a belief that life’s feast comes from outside and from time-bound conditions. When a man is given riches, wealth, and honor, yet cannot eat of them, the problem is not the food but the mind that says, 'I am not fed.' God’s giving is the stimulant of desire, but the power to enjoy must be claimed by the I AM within. The stranger who eats what you think is yours stands for the appearances—the world of circumstance that seems to consume your due. In truth, the man remains unsatisfied because his sense of abundance lives nowhere but in a future or in the empty 'I will be fed when...' If you awaken to the inner feast, you discover there is rest beyond the sun or the grave. Your years and your names are but appearances; the real you is the awareness that feeds itself by imagining the good already present. To live well is to dwell in the conviction that the inner supply precedes and makes real the outer.