Basket of Summer Endings

Neville's Inner Vision

To the one who would awaken, the basket is not a prophecy about a people somewhere; it is a symbol of your current harvest of consciousness. The question 'What seest thou?' invites you to examine your present state. Your answer—'a basket of summer fruit'—is a recognition that a ripe season has matured in you. The 'end' spoken by the Lord is the culmination of a long habit of thinking; it marks the moment when the old pattern cannot be kept alive by sheer effort. Yet this end is not punishment but invitation: the divine attention will no longer pass by this state. In Neville's terms, God is your I AM, the awareness that endows forms with life. When you recognize that you have held a particular state by habit, you can revise by assuming a new state now. The end of the old Israel means the end of the old, limiting sense of self; you are free to birth a new inner kingdom through the conscious act of imagining and declaring.