Thorns of Belial Bound by Imagination

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the so-called sons of Belial are inner motions—thorny thoughts and unguarded impulses that cling to your life. They appear as thorns because your attention gives them life; they cannot be 'taken' by force, only by the power you grant to them. To 'touch' them is to stand in front of them with iron and spear—an image of unwavering I AM awareness, a disciplined imagination that says, 'You may arise, but you do not define me.' When you fence them with iron, your focus becomes a boundary that narrows their sway; when you keep the staff of a spear—direction and intent—your mind returns to its center. The fiery consequence—'utterly burned with fire in the same place'—is the purification by inner fire: your consciousness consumes the thorny patterns and leaves the ground clear for pure perception. So the event invites a shift of identification: you are the I AM, not the Belial thought; therefore, you practice feeling-it-real that you have already burned them away in the field of your awareness.