Vanity's Quiet Eclipse

Neville's Inner Vision

Ecclesiastes 6:4 speaks a drama of consciousness. The man who enters with vanity is the ego clinging to a made up self; he departs into darkness when the lights of awareness recede from identification. The name that seeks fame and permanence is but a dream of memory, to be covered by darkness when the eye of I AM shifts its attention. In Neville’s terms, this is not a condemnation of life, but a map: every outward appearance is a state of consciousness. Where vanity asserts I am this reputation, the inner God state replies I am the witness that remains when names fade. The verse invites you to observe the process and not be distressed by it. By turning inward, you discover that the ego's entrance and exit are simply movements within consciousness, and the true self persists beyond vanity or oblivion. When you claim the I AM as your own, you dissolve the fear of being forgotten and awaken to a present, unchanging light that can never be named or dimmed by circumstance.