The Grass Of Fear, Inner Power

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as Neville would, the verse reveals that the apparent power of a city or army is only a state of consciousness. The invaders are not distant conquerors but a belief in limitation; the inhabitants become weak because they entertain fear as reality. The grass, the green herb, the grass on the house tops, and the corn blasted before it can grow are symbols of transient conditions—outward circumstances that wither when the inner I AM stands as authority. In truth, God is not an external force but the I AM within you, the awareness that refuses to accept limitation. When you stop externalizing power and instead identify with the inner state that perceives, you transform the scene. The moment you assume a different feeling—that you are the sovereignty, that every threat is but a passing impression of consciousness—you begin to see the landscape re-harvested by your inner vitality. The apparent devastation abroad is the same as any fear you revise in imagination; it yields to your persistent conviction that you are already complete, undisturbed, and free.