Neville Goddard on Song of Solomon 8:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Song of Solomon 8 in context

Scripture Focus

6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

7Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7

Biblical Context

The passage speaks of love as a sealed, enduring state that cannot be quenched by external forces, and invites a decisive commitment to love as the inner reality. It portrays love as stronger than death and waters, achieved by seeing oneself as the source and the seal of that love.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the seal is not a clasp placed upon another, but a recognition of your own I AM as the binding of heart and arm. When you acknowledge that love is a state you assume, you seal your inner world so firmly that death-like fear cannot sever it. Jealousy, the gravity that seems to pull you toward lack, dissolves when you realize you are the source and the keeper of all relationship—the conductor of every scene. The flames described are the vividness of imagination itself; the coals of fire are your creative feeling, burning with certainty that what you desire already stands in your present I AM. Waters and floods are merely appearances in consciousness that you outgrow by maintaining the assumed identity: I am loved; I am whole; I am unshakable. Thus, the verse invites you to inhabit a permanent, intimate union with Life itself, a seal that makes every moment a recognition of your true, undying love.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and repeat the assumption: I am the seal on heart and arm; love endures all. Let that feeling settle in for a few minutes, then carry it into your actions and perceptions.