Neville Goddard on Song of Solomon 5:8-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Song of Solomon 5 in context

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?

Song of Solomon 5:8-9

Biblical Context

The verses reveal a longing for the beloved and a call to acknowledge him, hinting at an inner drama of recognizing the beloved as one's own presence.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's sense, the 'daughters of Jerusalem' are the inner voices of habit and doubt. 'I am sick of love' expresses a state of longing as a sign that the consciousness yearns for the realization of the beloved—the realization that the beloved is not separate but the I AM within. The question, 'What is thy beloved more than another beloved?' exposes the mind's habit of comparing states; Neville would insist there is only one true beloved—the living presence of God as your awareness. To 'charge' others to tell you of the beloved is to seek external validation for a state you must already inhabit in imagination. The remedy is revision and immersion: assume the presence now, feel the beloved as your own I AM, and persist in the feeling of that reality until it remains or becomes your default. When you dwell in the sense 'I am with God now,' the outward image aligns with your inner truth, and longing dissolves into recognition.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: In a quiet moment, revise the feeling by declaring, 'I am the I AM, and the beloved within me is real now,' then rest in the certainty until the sense of presence is steady.