Inner Roots and East Wind

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the verse as a teaching about your inner field. The roots and leaves are the beliefs and feelings you feed; the east wind is any impression that would pull your attention outward and threaten your sense of self. When you are identified with the meager wind, you traction to the doubts and circumstances and your vitality withers. But if you plant and remain rooted in the I AM—the awareness that you are consciousness and not circumstance—the plant thrives regardless of the wind. The Lord GOD speaks as your own higher self, asking: Shall it prosper under conditions you have chosen to ignore? The answer is: it prospers to the degree you maintain inner conviction. The external storms expose your interior state; they do not create it. Therefore, the prophecy is a call to accountability: you pull up the roots with your attention when you dwell on lack, or you hold firm and nourish the roots with imagination until the leaves unfold. The promise is not about changing outer weather but about mastering your inner weather by assumption and feeling.