Pitfall and Hedge Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Ecclesiastes 10:8 speaks of a pit dug and a hedge broken, and of a serpent biting the one who does so. In my language, this is not a threat from without but a clear statement of inner physics: the thoughts you nourish and the boundaries you disregard become the very conditions of your experience. When you plant a pit in your mind—resentment, plotting, the belief that you are at odds with life—you awaken a vibration that draws you toward the scene you imagined. The hedge you break—the guardrails of ethical feeling, compassion, or disciplined thought—opens you to a painful inner bite: guilt, fear, or self-judgment that seems to arise automatically. The I AM, your true self, is unaffected by the outer cause; you are the imaginer and the imagined. If you want to avoid the bite, refuse to plant pits and refuse to breach your hedge in thought. Assume the end: you are One with Infinite Intelligence, protected by consciousness. Revise the scene by imagining harmony, and feel it real until the thought becomes your living truth.