Inner Amos: Justice by Imagination

Neville's Inner Vision

Amos speaks not to distant rulers but to the inner ruler in you—the I AM that feels and thinks. 'Treading on the poor' is your present state of consciousness that treats lack as real and uses others as means to security. The 'houses of hewn stone' and 'vineyards' are the forms you construct from fear—structures meant to secure you yet never inhabited by your true life, so you do not drink their wine because you have denied the wine of life in your mind. When you hear 'I know your manifold transgressions,' hear it as the inner critic naming beliefs that block expression of justice, the bribes of convenience, and the gate at which you turn away from the right of true perception. The call is to reverse this: you are the just, you are the gate, and you are the source of value. By imagining from the end of abundance and feeling the reality of justice here and now, you dissolve the old pattern. Let the world reflect your revised state, and observe how action and circumstance bend to the consistence of your inner conviction.