“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor,
The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
— Isaiah 9:6 (KJV)
This well-known verse is often understood in traditional terms as a prophecy of the coming of Jesus Christ. But as Neville Goddard revealed, the Bible speaks in symbolic language, and its true meaning is psychological. Isaiah 9:6 is not a prophecy of a historical birth—it is a revelation of what happens within when man awakens to the power of his own imagination.
The Child Is Not Born in Time
“Unto us a child is born” does not refer to a literal event. It describes the moment in which a new state of being is born within the individual—the moment you claim, feel, and persist in the assumption of your desire fulfilled.
“The child is your idea, your assumption, accepted as true and felt as real.”
— Neville Goddard (interpretive paraphrase)
It is not a boy in Bethlehem—it is the birth of identity. The Son is given when you embody the end. You are no longer waiting; you are living from it.
“The Government Shall Be Upon His Shoulder”
Neville explained that the government represents control and direction over one’s inner world. To place the government upon his shoulder is to place authority in the hands of this new assumption. When the child is born, your world is restructured from the inside out.
“The assumption governs. It moves the world around you.”
— Neville
You no longer move from the old man—fear, effort, doubt. A new state now rules. This is the government.
His Name Shall Be Called…
These are not proper names in the modern sense but symbolic descriptions of what this new state brings with it:
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Wonderful Counsellor – Because imagination is awe-inspiring in its ability to bring forth what was not there.
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The Mighty God – Because this power is divine; your imagination is not separate from God—it is God.
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The Everlasting Father – Because all things spring from this source; the assumed state becomes the father of your reality.
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The Prince of Peace – Because when you dwell in the end, peace follows; striving and seeking fall away.
Across the major Bible translations, this verse is consistently presented as a fourfold pattern of titles. While the Hebrew phrase Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom could appear to contain more, the scholarly and translational consensus (including the KJV, NIV, ESV, and NLT) treats Wonderful Counsellor as a single, compound title—not two separate ones.
These are not names of a man, but functions within the reader’s own consciousness—qualities that come alive the moment one lives from the wish fulfilled.
The Fourfold Structure Hidden in the Names
This structure mirrors the Bible’s symbolic use of four as the number of manifestation, fullness, and creative structure. Each title corresponds to a distinct faculty of your own mind, awakened when you shift identity:
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Wonderful Counsellor – The faculty of inner vision and intuitive guidance.
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The Mighty God – The power and conviction of belief.
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The Everlasting Father – The awareness that your assumptions generate reality.
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The Prince of Peace – The rest that comes from living in the end.
These titles are not about a future messiah, but about what emerges in you when a new self is born through assumption.
This fourfold symbolism is found repeatedly throughout Scripture:
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The four rivers of Eden flowing from the inner garden
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The four faces of the cherubim (man, lion, ox, eagle)
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The four corners of the earth
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The four Gospels, each expressing a distinct facet of imagination
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The fourfold path of manifestation: Faith, Persistence, Imagination, Praise
Isaiah 9:6 is not a list of divine titles to admire—it is a map of the faculties that awaken when the Christ within is born. It’s an inner coronation.
The Real Meaning of Christmas
Isaiah 9:6 is often read aloud at Christmas time. But as Neville taught, the true Christmas is not seasonal. It happens in you, the moment you shift your concept of self and persist in the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
“To believe that you are what you want to be is to give birth to a new reality. That is the child.”
— Neville Goddard
This is not an event once a year. It is a spiritual event repeated again and again whenever you give birth to a new identity by assumption.
A New State Takes the Throne
The verse ends with names that belong to this new state. Each name points back to your own imagination, now awakened. The child governs because it is your self-concept made active. It has taken the throne from the former state and now directs your experience.
No longer governed by appearances or habit, you are ruled by the inner truth of I AM.
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