Gradual Inner Conquest

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the text speaks to your present consciousness. The fear that walks before you is not your enemy but a pointer to the belief that you still inhabit a lesser state. When I say, I will send my fear before thee, I affirm that in your next forward march the inner atmosphere is cleared by the very sensation of caution, reverence, and anticipation. The so-called enemies—the Hivite, the Canaanite, the Hittite—are simply the stubborn habits, memories, and identifications your mind clings to. I will drive them out by the hornets: these are the precise, directed assumptions and feeling of inevitability that push out the old forms. They come not all at once; the land must not be desolated by a sudden collapse of your inner world. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee until thou be increased, and inherit the land. The land is your inner kingdom, your lived world when your awareness remains fixed in the I AM and your imagination is trusted to reform the seen.