Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 7:8-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 7 in context

Scripture Focus

8Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:8-9

Biblical Context

The verse teaches that the end of a thing is better than its beginning, and a patient spirit is better than pride; do not be hasty to anger, for anger rests with fools.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the crown of this verse you are not reading a rule for the world, but a diagnosis of your own state. The end of a thing is not an event to fear or chase, but a mirror of the consciousness that conceived it. The patient in spirit is the I AM choosing harmony over haste. Anger is not a fact; it is a moment of inner weather, resting in the bosom of a mind still clinging to separation. When you accept that, you stop confessing the scene and begin confessing the inner state that would yield the desired outcome. In Neville’s practice you do not resist anger by force but revise the premise from the interior room of awareness. If you imagine the end as already accomplished, your present becomes the pathway of the finished state. You feel, not force, the truth of peace, and you steady your attention on the I AM that perceives the completion. In time the outer beginning yields to the end your consciousness has embraced, and patience becomes your natural manner of being.