Thistle and Cedar: Inner Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the outward story lies an inward drama. The 'thistle' is a petty ego or thought in Lebanon—small, boastful, eager for alliance with a grander power ('the cedar'). It sends a message of external connection, a marriage of appearances, while the 'wild beast' moves beneath the surface, unseen and unmoved by such pretensions, treading the thistle underfoot. This is your inner dynamic: when a fragment of consciousness pretends it can lord it over a greater principle, the universe answers not with anger but with the corrective action of inner law. The cedar stands for your true I AM, a state of consciousness that does not tremble at external proofs. The beast embodies the inevitable consequence that follows any misalignment between thought and being. If you identify with the thistle’s vanity, you invite the beast’s correction; if you rest as the cedar within, outer events reveal your inner sovereignty and judgment flows as natural justice. The message: cultivate the higher state, and the small claims dissolve in the light of inner truth.