Hill Gods to Plain Power

Neville's Inner Vision

In the wording, the 'gods of the hills' are not mighty beings but states of mind—habits of pride and fear that rise above the plain of life. The Syrians assume strength comes from a high place, yet the text hints that such strength is only an agreed upon illusion. To Goddard, the real hill is the mind's moment when you forget that you are the I AM, and the plain is the level ground of awareness where you may revise that error. The moment you hear 'their gods are gods of the hills' and then decide to fight 'in the plain,' you are being asked to shift your assumption rather than your external conditions. Replace the belief 'power comes from hills' with the certainty 'the I AM is the power in all places.' As you assume this, you become the one who commands events by inner conviction. The apparent contrast of hill and plain dissolves, because the same I AM that you are is present everywhere, sustaining you now.