In both Neville Goddard’s teachings and the Bible, love is far more than emotion or attachment. It is the very power of union—the deep, imaginative fusion of the self with its chosen ideal. Love is the creative force, the bridge between desire and fulfilment. It is not passive, but a spiritual act of assuming and becoming.
Neville repeatedly reminds us:
“You become what you contemplate. What you love, you become.”
In this view, to love is to accept something as already yours—to identify with it completely in imagination and feeling. This love is not a yearning for something outside, but the full assumption that “I Am” what I seek.
The Song of Solomon: A Portrait of Mystical Union
The Song of Solomon, often overlooked or misread as merely romantic, becomes a deeply symbolic scripture when viewed through Neville’s teachings. It tells the story of a soul seeking union—not with another person, but with its divine ideal.
“I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.” — Song of Solomon 6:3
Here, the Bride represents the receptive, subconscious self, while the Bridegroom represents the state or assumption the soul longs to merge with. Their passionate pursuit, their yearning, and eventual union symbolise the process of manifestation: the soul must feel itself joined to its desire, until separation dissolves.
In Song of Solomon 3:1, the Bride says:
“I sought him whom my soul loveth; I sought him, but I found him not.”
This echoes the common experience in manifestation: the longing before the assumption has fully taken hold. But the Song also affirms that persistence in love—in the emotional embodiment of that union—leads to fulfilment.
And in one of the most striking verses:
“Love is strong as death… its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.” — Song of Solomon 8:6
This is the creative power of divine love: it burns away separation, doubts, and fear. It is love that draws the soul into unity with its highest self.
David: The Beloved State of Being
To deepen the symbolism, we must also consider the figure of David, whose name literally means “Beloved.” David is not just a historical king; he is a symbol of the manifested state that is loved and chosen by the Lord—or in Neville’s terms, the self that emerges once imagination is fully assumed.
David’s selection by Samuel—overlooked by others, yet favoured by God—mirrors the soul’s emergence from obscurity when it embraces its inner vision. David is “the man after God’s own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14), a phrase that reflects the intimate union between the seeker and the sought.
The repeated use of “beloved” in the Song of Solomon becomes even more potent in light of this. The soul is not merely yearning—it is yearning for David, the beloved state, the fully assumed identity that will bring forth rulership, transformation, and fulfilment.
To say “I am my beloved’s” is to say “I am David”—I am that chosen state, the manifestation of what I have loved within.
Biblical Love: Not Sentiment, but Fulfilment
Paul writes:
“Love is the fulfilment of the law.” — Romans 13:10
This is the law Neville often speaks of—the law of consciousness. To love, in scriptural terms, is to live in accordance with the divine principle of assumption: to see yourself and others not as they are, but as they could be.
“Perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18) because love holds no separation—it insists upon unity. It sees no lack, no gap between desire and fulfilment.
To love your neighbour as yourself, then, is to recognise everyone as yourself pushed out—a reflection of your inner state. To love them is to see them rightly, to revise their story lovingly, and so elevate the entire world around you.
Conclusion: Love as the Engine of Transformation
Love, as Neville and scripture both testify, is the power that transforms. It is the feeling of the wish fulfilled, the burning union of the soul with its chosen image. It is the divine embrace between the inner self and the outer reality. In the words of the Song of Solomon, love is a flame that cannot be quenched—a fire of the Lord.
To love, then, is to create.
And to become David—the beloved—is to step into rulership over your world through the power of union with the divine within.
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