The Hope Behind the Chains

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the verse places you inside the scene as the one who calls and is called, and the chain is not a prison but a symbol of a fixed point in consciousness. 'For the hope of Israel' is not about a nation's distant future, but about your own inner covenant—the promise you have made to your I AM about the outcome you seek. The chain signifies that, by the power of your assumption, you are already in possession of what you desire. The speaker’s movement—calling, meeting, speaking—repeats in your thoughts as the activity of imagination, drawing you into the reality you have envisioned. When you accept that you are bound to this hope only by the state you inhabit, you discover that liberty is the inner steadiness of faith, not a external release. By feeling the reality of the fulfilled promise while yet in the present, you convert the waiting into an act of inner creation.