Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 9 in context

Scripture Focus

1For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

2All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-6

Biblical Context

Solomon notes that the righteous and the wise, their works, lie in God's hand, and that the same fate comes to all—the living and the dead alike. The living have hope, while the dead know nothing and memory fades.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the I AM vantage, the hand of God is the living awareness you carry now. The one event Solomon speaks of is not a doom outside you, but the single inner state that courts your experience. When you say the righteous or the wicked are under God's hand, you are recognizing that every scene derives from your current consciousness. Thus as is the good, so is the sinner reveals that outward conditions reflect inner conviction, not a fixed cosmic score. The dead are those states you leave when you stop inhabiting the living mind; the living then hold hope because you still breathe, you still imagine. Remember: the living are awake to possible change; the dead know not, because they are identified with memory rather than living awareness. So the path to peace is not to chase outer facts, but to shift the inner state you habitually assume. Imagination creates the external; your state of feeling is the magnet drawing the next appearing event. When you attend to the present I AM and entertain a new possibility as true, you align with the one event and watch the world reorganize itself.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume you are joined to the living; feel the vitality of your present awareness. Revise your condition by silently declaring I am the living I AM and this situation now moves to reflect my inner conviction.