Amos 5:1-2 Inner Lament Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Amos 5:1-2 looks like a lament over Israel, but in the Neville Goddard reading, the entire scene is a map of consciousness. The 'virgin of Israel' stands for a pure awareness within you—unmarred by fear or doubt—yet the moment you identify with a belief that you are fallen, that awareness seems to lie still and 'she shall no more rise.' The land is your present sense of life; if you feel forsaken there, no outer hand will raise you, for true revival comes from within. The lament invites you to stop clinging to the old story and to revise it by assuming the feeling of being restored. Hear the lament, yes, but let the tone become a constructive assumption: I am the I AM, and I awaken now; my consciousness of life rises with the reality I choose to feel. The exile you fear dissolves as you dwell in this new state of mind, and the return is not history but a present-tense awakening. You wake because you believe you wake; you rise because you accept the inner claim that life is always returning to you.