Inner Lament, Outer Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the sword of the king of Babylon not as distant history but as a turning of your own mind. The spoil of Egypt and its multitudes stand for the fall of every belief in separation from God; the waters drying up and rivers running like oil become the inner streams of consciousness, clarity, warmth, and flow replacing fear and stagnation. When I read the line I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters, nor shall the foot of man trouble them any more, I hear the removing of restless thought and the end of mental disturbance: the mind no longer harassing itself with outer problems but resting in the stillness of the I AM. The desolation of the land is the mind emptied of misidentifications, so that the cry they shall know that I am the LORD becomes the moment you recognize that God and you are one, that the self-aware I AM is the only ruler of your experiences. The lament then is the conversion of old beliefs into light, yielding to the sovereignty of awareness.