Rending the Mind's Garment

Neville's Inner Vision

I tell you the king is the I AM in you, awakened to a new state of consciousness. The tearing of garments is not ritual despair but a symbolic shedding of a worn identity; the earth upon which he lies is your grounded awareness in the moment, and the watching servants are your thoughts and habits that witness the turning. Mourning signals a holy turning; you are not punished but invited to revise your state by assuming, 'I am the whole and now.' When you feel the ache of loss, feel it fully, then refuse to feed it with further identification. Instead, imagine stepping out of the old garment and donning the inner robe of peace and wholeness. This holiest separation—between old self and sacred I AM—prepares the way for a new scene that reflects your revised state. The outer sign mirrors your inner conversion: your life follows your belief about who you are. If you persist in this new assumption, the entire scene changes to align with that truth.