Dust to Spirit Within: Inner Resurrection
Ecclesiastes 12:7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Ecclesiastes 12 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Physically, the body returns to the dust and earth. Inwardly, the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Neville's Inner Vision
Ecclesiastes gives a picture of dissolution, but not doom. The dust represents a former state of mind, a worn-out identity that the outer world calls you. The spirit returning to God who gave it is the awareness, the I AM, turning back to its Source. In Neville’s language, life never ends; attention shifts. You are not leaving life, you are leaving a belief about life. The inner movement is the return of your consciousness to Presence, where every sensation is reimagined as an act of God within. Resurrection and new life are not distant events but ongoing revisions of your inner state, made real by feeling-it-real and assumption. When you embody mercy and compassion toward the self you once feared, you prove that God is present here and now, renewing your future as you renew your belief. The verse invites you to rest in the certainty that the one who gave you breath is the I AM, and that return to Spirit is the doorway to a perpetually revived life.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit in stillness and revise your sense of self by declaring I am the I AM, returning now to Presence. Feel the release of old identifications as you imagine the inner life alive and renewed.
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