The Silver Cord Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Ecclesiastes places before you the image of a worn vessel and a wheel that seems to stop; yet in the quiet of your consciousness, that imagery reveals the law of your own I AM. The silver cord and the vessel are pictures of your state of awareness—when you identify with form, you feel the cord loosening as fear or doubt loosen. But the truth is that the spirit returns not to a distant God, but to the God within you, the I AM that gave life to every scene. Your life is a dream of imagination; you are always within the self that dreams it. When you revise the sense of self—choose a state of being in which you are already at one with God—you allow the old pattern to dissolve and a newer life to spring forth. The dust returning to earth is simply the recycling of old beliefs back into consciousness, so that a fresher image can arise. By abiding in the I AM and feeling it as real, you awaken to a continual resurrection: a present, inner life that never truly ends.