The Inner Safeguard Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Look inward and hear Solomon’s cry as a map of your own consciousness. The woman is not a wife but a state of appetite—an impulse that pretends to promise fulfillment while wrapping you in nets of fear, guilt, or obsession. Her heart, a trap of thought, and her hands, a band that binds attention, point to the way your mind latches onto images and stories that seem to demand satisfaction now. Yet 'whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her' is not external protection but a shift of identity. When you dwell in I AM—awareness that you are the living, breathing consciousness behind all imagery—you withdraw your energy from the lure and refuse to participate in the dream. The temptation dissolves as you acknowledge that the end you seek is already yours in the state of consciousness you inhabit. By revising the inner scene, you permit the outer appearance to echo your settled state rather than your old impulse. The bitter thing becomes a signal to wake up to who you truly are.