Inner Trees and City Bulwarks

Neville's Inner Vision

I see Moses’ command as a map of the inward terrain. The trees that bear no meat are thoughts and beliefs that do not nourish life; you are told to cut them down, for they drain energy and feed fear. The bulwarks you build against the city that wars with you are the disciplined boundaries of your state of consciousness. When you stand in the I AM, aware that God is within, you do not feed the troublesome thoughts with attention. You prune the landscape of your mind so only what nourishes remains. The city represents the outward conditions that appear to oppose you; yet the law speaks of subduing it by the power of inner faith. So the law is not a command to violence but a directive to choose a new state and to remain faithful to it until the old state yields. Your real task is revision of the inner picture—assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, dwell in the end, and let the imaginative act do the work. The practical result follows: inner conditions form outer events.