Return to Your Inner Estate

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner theater, the 'captivities' are states of consciousness. 'Sodom and her daughters' and 'Samaria and her daughters' are not geographic places but patterns of mind—desire, judgment, fear, grievance. When the outer 'captivity' is brought back among them, the mind experiences its own release: beliefs that you are separate collapse as the I AM asserts its presence. To 'bear thine own shame' is to own the projections you have entertained, not as punishment but as a correction of vision, a clearing of the sight by which you may heal. As you choose to forgive, accept, and unify these inner states, your restoration mirrors itself in the surrounding life, and you become a comfort to others by reflecting their return. The final line—that your sisters and you shall return to your former estate—points to the law that consciousness returns to its divine root: you are always the I AM, and all outer exiles serve the inner awakening.