The Inner Sword of Denial

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine Amos's scene as a mirror of your own mind. The 'sinners' are not only others but the parts of you that live in denial—those thoughts that declare, 'evil shall not overtake us' and so refuse to own the consequences of their actions. In the Neville fashion, this is a shift of state, not a threat from without. The sword represents the stripping away of a hardened belief that you are exempt from the laws of cause and effect. When you cling to invulnerability, you are feeding a separate identity, a dream that can die when confronted with truth. The moment you acknowledge that the same law that judges others governs you, the 'die by the sword' becomes the dissolution of the old self and the birth of a higher self that neither fears nor dodges responsibility. Therefore, take up the posture of the I AM: image yourself as already governed by the divine order, and revise the thought that 'evil' can overtake you. Your present feeling of separateness will yield to the unity of awareness, and a new life emerges from the cleared ground of your mind.