Borrowed Axe, Inner Providence

Neville's Inner Vision

Your rented tool is a symbol of the means you think you possess in the outer world. When the axe head slips into the water, the scene is not a mere accident but a mirror of your present consciousness—identifying with lack, believing the tool must come from outside you. The cry Alas, master! is the call to the Master within—the I AM that your sense of self can turn to for guidance. In Neville’s grammar, the moment is your invitation to revise, to refuse the illusion that the supply is somewhere apart from your awareness. The master you cry to is not a person; it is the unwavering awareness that you are always attended by a benevolent intelligence. By recognizing that the borrowed tool is merely a symbol of current dependence, you awaken to the truth that all supply is maintained by your inner state. When you shift your feeling to the reality that your life is an uninterrupted stream of support, the neediness dissolves. The help arrives as a new alignment of consciousness, not as a delivery from without, but as your own mind recognizing and receiving the abundance already present.