Ashes of Inner Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that the dust and the boils are not something happening to you from without; they are the measurement of your present states of consciousness. The ashes stand for your old beliefs—dust from the furnace of your thoughts—that have no bearing in the new you unless you revise. When you 'sprinkle' these ashes, you are not punishing Egypt; you are turning your attention upward to the I AM, the awareness through which reality is formed. The boils indicate the inner weather of a mind resisting a new state; they show what must be released, what fear wants to cling to, what habit must melt. The Pharaoh is that stubborn sense of ego that says, 'this is real and cannot change'; your act before Pharaoh with the ashes is the moment to declare, 'I AM the God of my experiences.' Providence moves as the precise inner movements that reveal what you have assumed and how to revise it. In this light, hardship becomes a signal prompting you to shift your inner state; the land of Egypt is your outer scene, and the scriptural event is a map for awakening into the I AM—the living imagination that creates reality.