Inner Exile and Pride Reimagined

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Amos oracle I see a scene inside: a people who cheer at a hollow triumph, boasting that they have seized horns by their own strength. The sounding horns are not steel but the imagination that power comes from outward shows. Yet the verse announces a swift correction: a nation will rise against them, a testing of consciousness that will press them from the entrance into the river of the wilderness. In Neville's terms, the exile is not punishment but the necessary shift of inner state, an adjustment in what the I AM accepts as real. When you rejoice in a thing of naught, you have mistaken a temporary appearance for permanent fact. The cure is not more external force but a revised assumption: the power you seek is already within, in the awareness you are, the I AM. By aligning with a new sense of self, claiming that strength comes from the inner kingdom, not from horns, we invite constraints to fall away and a new order to arise from within. The outer nation then becomes a new arrangement of inner conditions, dissolving pride into a quiet, confident stillness.