Inner Wisdom and Folly Revealed

Neville's Inner Vision

What is being tried here is not a mere intellectual survey, but a deliberate occupancy of the inner state. The heart that seeks wisdom and the heart that courts folly are not two different persons, but two imaginal ends of the same consciousness. In Neville's terms, God is the I AM within, and imagination creates reality. When I declare, in the I AM, 'I will know wisdom,' I am setting up a state; when I also allow 'madness and folly' to occupy the same space, I witness the vexation of spirit arise as the resistance of the self to its own imagining. The secret is to recognize that the self that observes is one, and the inner movement is the movement of consciousness. By aligning with the state of supreme knowing, by assuming 'I am the wise observer' rather than chasing external proofs, the vexation dissolves as the outer world shifts to reflect that inner order. The wise and the fool are but attitudes within the same I AM; the quiet act of revision—selecting the I AM as the ruler—transmutes trial into clarity.