Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 - 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.

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.

Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

Biblical Context

The verse presents a paradox: a long life filled with outward things yet devoid of inner goodness is vanity, and an untimely birth is said to be better because the life-long journey ends in darkness and obscurity if the soul is not truly filled with good.

Neville's Inner Vision

Take the scene as a mirror of the inner life. The writer speaks not of numbers or names, but of a state of consciousness. A man may multiply years and offspring, yet if his I AM is not filled with the good, his days are vanity, his burial a rumor; and his name, like a shadow, passes into darkness. The 'sun' he has not seen is the light of awareness, the realization that all beings are borne in the mind of God-as-I-AM. In Neville terms, the untimely birth represents the unmanifested good that never came to expression because belief stayed unconscious of its own potential. The contrast invites you to shift your inner weather: treat life as a dream formed by your present assumption. If you assume a state of fullness, you awaken to an Inner sun that shines on every moment; you realize that the long life is only as alive as its inner content. Therefore, none of your future can outshine the light you presently accept as true.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling of fullness now: that the I AM is inherently good and your days are meaningful. Revise the current story by imagining the inner sun shining on all your moments and feel it real.