Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 6:3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 6 in context

Scripture Focus

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 6:3

Biblical Context

The verse says that even a hundred children and long life cannot fill the soul with good; without inner fulfillment, such signs are empty, and burial cannot redeem them.

Neville's Inner Vision

Let the voice of I AM read Ecclesiastes 6:3 as a revelation about your inner climate, not a decree about others. The man with a hundred children and many years is simply a symbol of an outer accumulation you mistake for fulfillment. The soul’s true bread is good felt as present reality; if your consciousness is not filled with good, no amount of outward signs can bury your sense of lack. The 'untimely birth' signifies a flash of inner birth — an image that arises without your previous consent and dethrones the worn stories. Hence the practice: refuse to improve your life by chasing more; instead, revise your inner impression by assuming you are already drenched in good, and let that assumption fill your days. Dwell in the feeling that meaning, gratitude, and vitality are now your natural state. With steady repetition you will see the outer world rearrange to reflect the inner state; endurance becomes ease, and suffering fades as you choose a new image and remain faithful to it.

Practice This Now

Act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and revise the scene by stating that I am filled with good now. Feel the truth of this image as real in your chest, and carry that feeling into the next hour.