Hooks and Fishhooks Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To the waking mind, the words reveal that the holiness you swear by is the I AM within you. The 'days' Amos speaks of are not future events scattered across time, but the recurring movements of your own consciousness—the moods and beliefs that pull you toward limitation. Hooks and fishhooks symbolize the little habits of thought that seize attention and drag your attention away from your true state. When you identify with those thoughts, you become the 'posterity' trapped by the chain of accustomed ideas, believing your future is run by what you once assumed. Yet the oath is not to fear but to realize: God is the I AM and you are its awareness. If you will but refuse to respond to the hooked impulse, you can revise the scene by assuming a higher state of consciousness—one in which freedom, clarity, and peace are already present. Your life then becomes a procession of fulfilled imaginal acts, returning you to the inner homeland you never left.