Echoes of the Fallen Cedar

Neville's Inner Vision

See the cedar as a grand state of awareness you have carried—your ambition, your sense of power, your identity in the outside world. When that state descends to the grave, a quiet mourning arises in your inner landscape; I AM, the presence within, causes the deep to be covered and the floods to be stayed. This is not punishment but a rearrangement of your inner weather, an opportunity to rest in deeper truth. As the old waters are restrained, the other trees faint, for the whole ecology of your self shifts its vitality to the new alignment. The nations tremble at the sound of the fall because your outer world responds to the belief change you have embraced; and when you cast the cedar down to the pit, the trees of Eden—the finest qualities you cherish—are comforted in the nether parts of the earth, awaiting new trust. In this inner room, you may revise. Claim the new state: the old grandeur dissolves, the I AM remains awake, and the kingdom within begins to reassert itself as the storm subsides.