Inner Resurrection: Canker of Doubt

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the verse, Hymenaeus and Philetus symbolize the stubborn voices within your own mind that insist renewal is finished. 'Their word will eat as doth a canker' points to a state of consciousness that corrodes faith by declaring the resurrection past. In Neville's view, God is the I AM—present awareness—and true resurrection is an ongoing activity of consciousness here and now, not a past event. When you assent to 'the resurrection is past,' you contract with limitation and close the living power of the I AM to your present experience. The remedy is to claim the revival you seek as a current fact: assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Revise the inner dialogue to: 'The resurrection is now; life is waking in me this moment.' Create a vivid inner image of renewal—light, seed, or new growth emerging within you—and watch as awareness itself unfolds it. Stay with that scene until it becomes emotionally convincing, allowing the older canker to fade before the brightness of now.