The Inner Iron and Clay

Neville's Inner Vision

Daniel 2:41–43 is a picture of your inner kingdom. The iron stands for a fixed I AM—strong, certain, unbending—while the clay is the pliable belief that shifts with mood and habit. When you live in a state that binds the two as enemies, they mingle with the seed of your awareness and yet refuse to fuse, leaving you with a sense of division. Yet the I AM, your eternal Self, can carry any form; the clay yields to the pressure of your feeling and becomes a fresh expression of the same life. The message is not that you must destroy one substance; it is that you must choose a different assumption, a new feeling center, and dwell there until the entire structure reads as one. If you persist in the sense of unity—seeing yourself as the unchanging I AM—the two elements cease to threaten and become a single living kingdom. Begin from the end you desire, and watch the outer scene rearrange itself to match your inner repetition.