Inner Judgment Awakens Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this oracle, the outer voices—the 'strangers' and the 'terrible of the nations'—are not someone else’s fate, but the inner strangers of your own mind when you assume you rule by your own wisdom. The 'beauty of thy wisdom' is the glitter of ego, the sense you are in command; the swords and pit are the tests that reveal that image as illusion. When you assume the I AM as your sole ruler, the 'slayer' becomes the inner habit of fear that dies as you stand in awareness and feel it real. The cry 'Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God?' dissolves into a simple truth: you are not the image that claims power, you are the awareness behind all images. The line about a man and no God points to the moment consciousness ceases worshiping a false god of separation. If you stay with the feeling of the I AM, even as events threaten the old self, you discover that the outer judgment is but the birth pang of a truer self.