Enduring Reward of Inner Work

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the words as a mirror of your own inner workshop. The foundation is the I AM, the awareness you are. What you build with your thoughts and imaginal acts—your beliefs about yourself, your sense of worth, your fate—are materials you select in the moment. If what you have built survives the inner fire—crises, doubts, judgments—that structure stands as a reward, a tangible evidence of your alignment with your divine state. If, however, your imagined constructions collapse before the test, the loss is real in form, but remember: salvation—being waking to your true nature—remains. It comes not by the outer accounting, but by the inner renaming of your state, by recognizing 'I am' behind every event. The fire clarifies: only the enduring essence of you, the state of consciousness you actually inhabit, remains. So the verse invites you to examine your inner workshop: identify what fears and false stories you have been stacking, and revise them by assuming the end-state now, until your inner fire reveals the gold within.