Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 7:24-29 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 7 in context

Scripture Focus

24That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?

25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

26And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

27Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

28Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Ecclesiastes 7:24-29

Biblical Context

The passage questions how to grasp the deep and the far away, showing that wisdom is sought through effort of the heart. It concludes that God made man upright, yet people chase many inventions and snares.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the far-off and exceedingly deep are not distant lands but states of consciousness within you. When I say I applied my heart to know, I am not cataloging facts; I am choosing to occupy a certain inner posture. The 'woman' with snares and nets is the pull of restless thoughts, senses, and external conditions that claim to determine me. To please God means to withdraw identification from those entanglements and rest in the I AM that animates all. The preacher’s tally—one man among a thousand, no woman among them—shows the rarity of living from inner alignment; yet the statement remains: God hath made man upright. The inventions are the habitual beliefs that we are incomplete until we acquire more, learn more, become more. Your task is to revise by assuming the truth of your original upright nature and to feel from that state that you are free, guided, and supported. By this shift, what you seek appears as a natural expression of your own consciousness, not as a distant conquest.

Practice This Now

Assume the state now: declare, 'I am upright and free.' Feel the I AM as a warm light at your center and rest there, letting the outer search dissolve.