Inner Pride and Hidden Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

To read Ezekiel 16:56-57 with the inner eye is to notice that 'thy sister Sodom' is a state of consciousness you once boasted as outside you. Pride here is not a neighbor; it is a belief you entertain about yourself, a self-exalting note that says, 'I am above correction.' When your inner discourse is exposed—'wickedness discovered'—the mind surrounding you becomes the mirror of your own judgments. The circle of 'daughters of Syria' and 'Philistines' represents the other voices that despise or mock your old self, yet you understand they are but projections of your own fear. The judgment you fear is simply the natural consequence of enthroning pride in the I AM. The remedy is not to resist, but to turn within and revise your sense of self to the I AM that never loses its worth. When you refuse to name the former pride aloud, you rewrite the memory, and the external reproach fades, for you have ceased feeding separation with belief. In this inward turn, you begin to inhabit the true self that is loved, complete, and unassailable.