The Inner Sword of Fear

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard vantage, the warriors and kings are not distant nations but your inner states under the same spell of fear and pride. The sword of Babylon represents a pressure of past self-conceptions that seems to externalize as circumstance. When you imagine, 'the sword comes upon you,' you are actually witnessing the moment your old identities confront your awakened I AM. The trembling of each person for his own life is the inner reaction of a mind clinging to survival scripts rather than the awareness that I AM is the one seeing. To break the scene, you do not fight an outer conqueror; you revise the inner scene and replace it with the feeling of being safe, complete, and unthreatened in the I AM. The 'pomp of Egypt' and 'the multitude destroyed' point to every prideful image you have relied on for power—money, status, external control. When you align with the I AM, these outward symbols lose their power, and the inner city collapses where fear ruled.