Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 8:9-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 8 in context

Scripture Focus

9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

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.

11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:9-11

Biblical Context

The verses note that rulers can harm others, the wicked may be buried and forgotten, and because punishment is not swift, people are tempted to evil.

Neville's Inner Vision

All you perceive in the world is a projection of your inner state, and the time of ruling you notice in others is the moment you grant a thought dominion over your life. The 'time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt' is the inner habit you allow to govern you unchallenged; the buried wicked are the disengaged attitudes you fail to revise, moments dissolved when you choose a different state of consciousness. When sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, your heart grows accustomed to the belief that wrongdoing can endure, and you slip into inaction. But you are the I AM, the ruler of your experience, and you can switch the inner governor now. Decide that justice is swift, that discernment acts immediately within your mind, and feel that you have corrected the cause in your own consciousness. As you revise, the outer scenes follow suit, revealing a city rebuilt by the corrective light of your inner decree. Trust that your present revision carries you past vanity into a steadier peace.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, assume the state of immediate inner justice, feel the I AM governing thoughts, and silently declare, 'From this moment, swift discernment rules my mind.'