According to Neville Goddard, imagination is the creative power of God, and the Law of Assumption is the principle that what we assume to be true—about ourselves, about others, about the world—will harden into fact. These final verses of Ecclesiastes can be read as a blueprint for that inner journey: how we weigh truth, how we fix it within, how we act on it, and how we come to honour the divine source from which all creation flows.
Verse 9
“Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care.”
This verse speaks of intentionality and spiritual discipline. The Preacher doesn’t simply gather knowledge—he weighs it, studies it, and arranges it with care. In Neville’s terms, this mirrors the process of consciously selecting and organising the inner assumptions we will live by. The world reflects back the structure of our inner dialogue. When we deliberately weigh and accept only that which serves the assumption of our desired state, we begin to teach others not by preaching, but by the transformation they witness in us.
Verse 10
“The Preacher sought to find words that were correct and upright, and to write words of truth faithfully.”
Words are not passive—they are carriers of belief. The Preacher's search for upright and faithful words symbolises our task of crafting inner conversations that align with the truth we choose to assume. Neville taught that assumptions are expressed through inner speech, and the words we faithfully affirm become the reality we live. “Words of truth” are not necessarily facts—they are statements that align with the desired state we are choosing to inhabit. To speak “correctly” is to assume correctly.
Verse 11
“The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.”
True wisdom does not coddle—it prods. Goads are sharp sticks used to move livestock forward, and so the words of the wise often challenge us out of inertia. But they also act as nails, securing truth in place. This balance reflects Neville’s teaching that assumption must be both active and firm. The “one Shepherd” represents the singular creative power—our own imagination—that provides both the nudge and the anchor. These collected sayings are not scattered thoughts but organised assumptions given by that inner guiding Presence.
Verse 12
“Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh.”
There is a quiet warning here against distraction. The endless pursuit of knowledge, without ever applying it, leads to exhaustion. Neville often emphasised the futility of endless reading and searching unless it led to doing—to assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled. This verse cautions us to stop grazing in the outer world for truth and turn inward instead. The creative act is simple: imagine, assume, persist. Everything else becomes a distraction disguised as diligence.
Verse 13
“The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”
This is the distilled essence of the Preacher’s teaching—and of Neville’s. “Fear God” here means to revere the creative power within, to honour imagination as the source of all. To “keep his commandments” is to align one’s assumptions, thoughts, and feelings with the truth of being: I am. Our only true obligation is to respect that inner law of creation and to live according to it. When we assume the state we desire and remain loyal to it, we are keeping the law faithfully.
Verse 14
“For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.”
Nothing imagined is ever lost. Every assumption, whether voiced or hidden in the heart, is brought into expression. Judgment here is not condemnation—it is manifestation. The creative power within us does not discriminate between good or evil; it brings forth what we inwardly accept as true. This verse reveals the full spiritual accountability of the Law of Assumption: the state we dwell in will bear fruit, no matter how secret or subtle it may seem. The subconscious accepts what we give it—and gives it form.
Conclusion
These final verses of Ecclesiastes are not a fading end, but a sharp beginning—a pivot from existential searching to creative authority. They urge us to weigh what we accept as true, to speak only what uplifts the assumption of our desired reality, to stay fixed and faithful in consciousness, and to revere the power that gives life to all assumption: imagination itself.
The end of the matter is not despair. It is direction. It is the quiet instruction to stop looking outward and begin creating inward. For the whole duty of man is not to figure life out, but to assume life rightly—and trust that all things are judged by the truth of what we dare to accept as already so.
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