Rejoice In Your Inner Works

Neville's Inner Vision

To interpret this in Neville's tone: The 'spirit of man that goeth upward' is the consciousness you call I AM, the awareness that imagines and thus creates. The 'spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth' is the mortal habit of looking outward, measuring life by fleeting appearances. Ecclesiastes whispers that the true security lies not in controlling time, but in discovering joy in the products of your inner labor. When you rejoice in what you have already wrought within your mind, you anchor a state of satisfaction that informs your present experience and makes the future conform to that state. The line about who shall bring him to see what shall be after him points to your inner observer—the I AM within you who both imagines and witnesses. Your future is not written by outside events but drawn forth from the steadfastness of your inner scene. The invitation is to cultivate the feeling of completion now: to savor the fruits of your inner creation, and to revise any lack by dwelling in the assurance that the work is already finished in imagination.