Firelight of Inner Vision

Neville's Inner Vision

I tell you, the symbols Ezekiel sees are not distant phenomena but the theater of your own consciousness. The likeness of the living creatures as burning coals and lamps represents the picture you constantly hold in awareness: a flame of attention, a lamp of focus, both fed by your imagination. When the fire goes forth lightning, it is the instantaneous energy of an idea, a surge of inspiration that leaps from within and lights the scene you are imagining. Notice how the fire moves up and down among them, and how the creatures run and return like a flash of lightning—this is the rhythm of consciousness shifting as you turn your attention. God, or the I AM, is not outside: it is the very brightness behind your thoughts, the sentient watcher who can tilt the flame toward one image or another. By embracing the fire as your own awareness, you can guide the flash of insight and let the glow settle into a steady, revealed state. The vision invites you to see that you are the observer and the observed within the same field of light.