Vanity and Inner States

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 7:15 invites us to see that the days of vanity are the theater of appearances, not the decree of the I AM. The 'just man' who perisheth and the 'wicked man' who prolongs life are not separate people but opposed inner states—righteousness and wickedness—rising and fading in the dream of life. In Neville's manner, we understand that God is not judging from without but living as the I AM within. What appears as death of virtue or longevity of ill-doing is the shift of consciousness, the shifting alignment in imagination. The I AM remains constant while the dream presents contradictions. To dislodge what seems fixed, deliberately assume the feeling of your true state: you are the I AM, the life that merely experiences, unbound by circumstance. By imagining from the end, you invite the outer to reflect your inner conviction. Therefore, the problem dissolves as you recognize the falsity of time; you stand as the living actuality of your awakened state, and what you call 'perishing' or 'prolonging' is simply the movement of mind reflecting your dominant belief.