Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 6:2-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 6 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Ecclesiastes 6:2-3

Biblical Context

The passage shows that external riches and honor may fail to nourish the soul. Even abundance can be eaten by a stranger.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that the verse does not condemn wealth itself, but the suspicion that wealth is the measure of life. God gives riches and honor as signs of a mind perfectly unaware of its own nourishment; when the soul cannot eat of its own abundance, the feast is eaten by a stranger—the outward world. In Neville terms, wealth is a state of consciousness you assume as real. If your day-long thoughts are fixed on outward gains, you may wake to find those gains untouched by your inner life, and what you call 'vanity' is really a misalignment between what you believe and what you feel. The remedy is simple: enter the end you seek and feel it as already yours. Assume you are the eater of the feast, not the spectator; dwell in the I AM that enjoys the feast now, regardless of appearances. When the soul is filled with good—laughter, kindness, right action—the outer life follows; the 'unburied' soul becomes a living testament to inner nourishment.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: in the next minutes, assume the feeling of being nourished by your inner wealth—feel the feast as real within you. Revise any belief that external abundance must prove itself before your soul can eat.