Neville Goddard on Song of Solomon 5:8-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

9What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

10My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

11His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

12His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

15His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

16His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Solomon 5:8-16

Biblical Context

The speaker seeks union with her beloved and declares intense longing, praising his beauty and affirming that he is her beloved and her friend.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the beloved is not a person you chase but the state of awareness you awaken to. When she says she is sick with love, she names the compelling energy of desire that turns the mind inward toward the I AM. The description of whiteness, ruddy skin, gold head, and the calm eyes is not an outward portrait to copy but a symbolic map of a perfected inner state you can assume now. See the beloved as your own inner state, the chief among ten thousand, the gold of true perception, the calm sight by the rivers of waters. The question what is thy beloved is the mind’s habit of comparing; you drop that habit by recognizing that every trait you admire is already your inner condition. When you affirm This is my beloved and this is my friend, you acknowledge unity: you and the beloved are one consciousness. Your task is to revise beliefs of separation and to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until the beloved is felt present within.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, breathe, and declare I am the beloved present now; dwell in the feeling of oneness for a few minutes. Let the sense of separation dissolve as you linger in that state.