Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 6:3-6 - 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.

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

Ecclesiastes 6:3-6

Biblical Context

The passage contrasts a long life spent in vanity with an untimely birth, suggesting that true rest and meaning come from the inner state and fulfillment, not outward duration.

Neville's Inner Vision

Brethren, these lines reveal that a life of outward abundance is not measured by numbers but by the quality of inner life. If your I AM—your present awareness—does not overflow with good, no amount of years or children can satisfy; you are imagining vanity into form. The untimely birth becomes the inner birth of realization, the sudden awareness that you are one with God, arriving without worldly signs. The sun you do not see is the lucidity of consciousness within; darkness is the belief in separation from the Source. Rest is not the prolongation of days but the quiet of a mind at peace in its unity with the Divine. Even a thousand years twice told, without inner good, ends in the same void. But when you revise your state to fullness—when you assume the good and feel it real—the outer world aligns, and life gains meaning as it reflects the sun of your own awareness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise: I am now filled with good; my life is meaningful and radiant with awareness. Feel this inner fullness as real, and let the outer appearances catch up.