Inner Fire and Divine Justice

Neville's Inner Vision

To interpret this in the way Neville might, see flaming fire as the inner heat of consciousness, not a distant punishment. The text calls attention to a law of inner life: what you deny or neglect within, you call forth as experience. 'Them that know not God' refers to those fragments of self that forget the I AM, the eternal observer who never leaves your side. They live in fear, doubt, or separation because awareness has been clouded. 'Obey not the gospel' means not aligning your daily thought and feeling with the good news that you are one with God, that the kingdom is within and accessible by imagination. When you awaken to that truth, the fiery energy burnishes the old images, showing what must be released. Judgment, from this view, is the natural correction that returns you to your true state. The heat you feel in imagination is not punishment but the clarifying power of consciousness moving toward wholeness. As you yield to the I AM, the so-called flames become a luminous proof of your inner obedience and the immediacy of divine life.