Dross to Divine Gold

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that in Ezekiel's vision, the furnace is not a weapon but a mirror for your consciousness. The 'dross' are your identified thoughts, attachments, fears—those small identities you mistake for yourself. When the Lord says 'I will gather you,' He acts as your I AM awakening attention, gathering every fragment of self into the heat of awareness where pretended value is tested by truth. The fire represents the intensity of attention, the insistence of consciousness that will not allow false images to remain. As silver, brass, iron, lead and tin are melted, so your many editions of 'me' are melted by the ongoing tax of attention, until only the true self remains—not a person but awareness. The melting reveals that the fury you fear is only the surge of your own energy when separated from God. You come to know that the LORD has poured out the fury upon you as a cleansing of habit and fear, not as punishment. In this light, the gathering is a gift: you are sanctified through contact with intensified awareness, not annihilated but refined.