Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 8:10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 8 in context

Scripture Focus

10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Biblical Context

The verse notes the wicked are buried and forgotten in the city, a vanity of time. It points to a deeper truth: outer scenes vanish while your inner state—the I AM—remains.

Neville's Inner Vision

Ecclesiastes 8:10 is a map of inner life. I observe the scene of the wicked buried and forgotten in the city and take it as a symbol: outer judgments are temporary; the real world is the inner state that remains when I no longer identify with old acts. The Holy Place—the I AM—dwells within; those who appear wicked are merely thoughts and memories arising in my mind. When I withdraw attention from them, they are buried and forgotten in the vast soil of consciousness, and vanity is exposed as a misreading of reality. The only lasting fact is my inner awareness; by imagining from the I AM and feeling the wish fulfilled, the outer city rearranges to reflect the new inner condition. The burial of the old act is the letting go of a pattern; the forgetting is the natural consequence of a stabilized awareness that I am, and always have been, the I AM.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the state you want as already true. Feel it real and imagine the old, wicked picture buried and forgotten within your consciousness.