Inner Prayer In Times Of Suffering

Neville's Inner Vision

Let the page be read as a map of inner states. The dearth and pestilence described are not 'out there' so much as signals of a mind unsettled from its true I AM. When 'every one shall know his own sore and his own grief' and the hands are lifted in the temple, you are being invited to turn your attention from the problem to the consciousness that sustains it. The place described as 'heaven'—the dwelling place of God—speaks to your own quiet awareness that knows what it is to be forgiven. The verse says: forgive and render unto every man according to his ways, for God alone knows the hearts of men; in Neville's sense, God is not a person outside you but your I AM, the principle of awareness that weighs motives. To fear thee and walk in thy ways is to align your inner state with divine order, so that the outer life reflects inner harmony. Your practice is to assume the final state—peace, forgiveness, and obedience to your own spiritual law—and revise until you feel it real, letting past grievances dissolve.