Inner Exodus: The Heart Hardening

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville's ear the verse speaks not of a distant king, but of your own inner governor—the I AM that you are aware of. Pharaoh is the stubborn identity you have clung to, the habit-energy of 'I am not free' that resists release from limitation. The miracles Moses and Aaron perform are the powerful ideas and sensations you remind yourself of—new possibilities that illuminate your current state. The Lord hardening Pharaoh's heart is not a judgment from without but the natural result of clinging to a self-image that cannot yield. When you identify with the old self, your consciousness locks in a mode of persistence; you insist on the land you know and refuse the new departure. Yet the real liberation is already inside you, and the only barrier is your belief that you must strive to obtain it. See the salvation as a present inner state, not a future event. In you the promised land exists as awareness, ready to awaken when you permit a more expansive self to claim it.