The Obedience of the Inner Voice

Neville's Inner Vision

See this scene as a mirror of your inner life. The request to be struck represents a command of the inner I AM asking you to align with its word. The neighbor who refuses embodies resistance within your state of consciousness; his departure invites the ‘lion’—the natural law of inner consequences that arises when you abandon the divine directive. The second encounter, where another man complies and wounds him, signifies that when you yield to the inner imperative in imagination and action, you reshape your self-image and awaken to a new level of awareness, even though the pathway may feel uncomfortable. The message: obedience to the inner voice maintains the harmony of your mental atmosphere and dissolves the fear-born phenomena that appear when you turn from the command. Your reality is the faithful echo of your inner state; to change the outer, you revise the inner to the feeling of its truth. The lion is not an external judge but your own state reacting to non-alignment; the cure is steady inner obedience to the divine directive within you.