Vanity, Timing, and Inner Harvest

Neville's Inner Vision

Vanity in these verses is the dream of external glitter—believing what you see in the world proves who you are. The recompense of vanity is the quick but hollow harvest that follows an inner disorder, and the line about it being 'accomplished before his time' points to the clock of consciousness, not of calendars. A branch that is not green shows a mind that merely imitates growth without inner recognition of its divine nature. The unripe grape and the fading flower symbolize outward appearances of progress that lack the steady fruit of inner realization. In Neville’s terms, you must shift from trusting appearances to knowing the I AM within—your true self—so that the inner plant matures and the outer life follows in its proper season. When you align with consciousness as the source, vanity loses power and the harvest appears, not as a theory, but as lived reality.