Neville Goddard on Song of Solomon 2:1-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

1I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

2As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

3As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

4He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

5Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

6His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

7I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

8The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

10My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

11For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

12The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

13The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

14O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

15Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

16My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

17Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Song of Solomon 2:1-17

Biblical Context

The passage presents an intimate, celebratory union in which the beloved symbolizes the inner Presence (I AM) and the spring-like renewal of awareness; it invites moving from distraction to alignment with that inner state.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the language of the poem you are told that you are the rose, the lily — the divine awareness in motion. The beloved among the daughters is the singular Presence within you, standing amid the clamor of thoughts as a calm, fragrant truth. The banqueting house is the imagination where contrast dissolves in consent; the banner over you being love is the protective aura generated by choosing a state of consciousness and dwelling there. When you cry, 'sick of love,' you acknowledge the ripe longing that yokes you to a higher feeling; this is your invitation to revise any lack with the certainty that you are already beloved. The foxes that spoil the vines are distractions you permit by attention; remove them by returning to the felt sense of unity, 'my beloved is mine, and I am his.' The journey from winter to spring is your inner daybreak: choose to rise and come away into the reality your I AM has prepared for you, now.

Practice This Now

Assume the line 'my beloved is mine, and I am his' as a present-tense fact. Sit in stillness and feel the embrace, then imagine stepping into the inner banqueting hall and letting your attention rest on the felt experience of being loved.