Conscious Return: Ecclesiastes 12:5-7

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the scene as a display of states within your own consciousness. The poet speaks of fear of what is high, the almond tree flourishing, the grasshopper becoming a burden, and desire failing, not as outer facts but as inner conditions of a soul that has forgotten its true source. When you understand that dust and spirit are not distant things but the matter and life of your own awareness, you see that the long home and the silver cord are descriptions of your shifting self-conception. The silver cord and the golden bowl are the cords by which you thought you were tied to a separate existence; when you awaken to I AM, those cords loosen, the vessel of ego breaks, and the dust returns to earth only as the old belief dissolves. Then the spirit returns to God, your awareness that never left, the one Life within you. Your body may age, but consciousness remains constant, and you are always at home in the divine I AM.