Neville Goddard on Song of Solomon 3:1-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

2I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

3The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

5I 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.

6Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

7Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.

8They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

9King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

10He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

11Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Song of Solomon 3:1-11

Biblical Context

She searches for her beloved by night and through the city, guided by inner watchmen, until she finds him and brings him into her inner sanctuary. The scene then crowns this inner love as a kingly presence to behold.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the beloved as the state of awareness you awaken to within. The night is the ordinary ego’s dusk; the streets and watchmen are the habits and doubts that try to keep you from recognizing I AM. When you hear the call, 'Saw ye him?', you are learning to stop seeking outside and to acknowledge that the beloved is already present as your own awareness. The moment you hold him, bring him into your inner sanctuary—the chamber of the womb of your being—you enact the inner birth of a new self, not by conquest but by consent of consciousness. The image of Solomon’s bed and the chariot represents the richness of the state you now claim: silver, gold, purple, all fashioned by love. The warning not to awaken love prematurely teaches you to trust the timing of imagination. Then comes the vision of the king revealed—the crown, the espousals—signs that you are now king over your inner kingdom. In Neville’s practice, this is not about finding a person but about ending the search within and affirming, here and now, 'I am one with the beloved.'

Practice This Now

Tonight, close your eyes, declare 'I am one with the beloved now,' and imagine bringing that beloved into your inner chamber, then hold the scene with a steady, blessed feeling of fullness.