Inner Oaths, Outer Idols

Neville's Inner Vision

Amos speaks of those who swear by Samaria’s sin and declare Beersheba’s manner as living, as if life rests in objects or places. In Neville’s terms, this is a state of consciousness clinging to outward forms. When you identify with a symbol—samaria, dan, or be ersheba—as the source of life—you displace the I AM within, and the inner reality collapses into a kind of spiritual exile. The judgment described is not punishment from above but the natural consequence of living by images rather than by awareness. The “god liveth” phrase becomes a translation of the inner truth: I AM is the only living reality. To end exile and bring back the inner kingdom, stand in the awareness that you are the life that animates all scenes; the symbols you named are merely mental pictures. In practice, affirm that the self you are is the I AM, and permit all images of lack or distance to dissolve into presence. The world then reconfigures to reflect that inner conviction as truth, not as illusion.