Inner Straw, Outer Liberation

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus 5:7-8 reads as a harsh decree, yet in Neville's language it is a mirror of your own consciousness. The 'straw' and the 'bricks' are not literal things but the thoughts and efforts you believe sustain a limited self. To be told to gather straw yourself is to own the supply line of your beliefs; to keep the brick tally the same is to insist that your results depend on unseen debts you cannot settle by willpower alone. They cry, because the outer form reveals an inner resistance to a higher possibility. When the cry becomes, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God,' realize that true worship is not ritual compliance but alignment with the I AM within—the immediacy of awareness that you are God and God is you. The deliverance is already present as a shift of consciousness: you stop serving a tyrant of circumstance and begin serving the sovereign self who imagines the world into being. In this light, the decree to diminish nothing loses its sting, for your inner authority now supplies all bricks with simple, assured imagination.