Inner Exile, Pure Bread

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the defiled bread as the thoughts you nourish in a world that seems polluted by fear. The ‘exile among the Gentiles’ is not a distant land but a state of consciousness where the I AM is dimmed. The LORD within you—the I AM—the one who reigns in your awareness, tells you how you experience life when you permit judgment and separation to rule. Yet the invitation is not to condemn but to re-create from the end. See yourself seated at a table, eating bread that is clean because you have not parted from your true divine nature. If you cling to the old scene of defilement, you empower it; if you revise it to reflect wholeness, you alter the air you breathe. Imagination is the true table; perception is the utensil; awareness is the cook. By habitually assuming the end of return and wholeness in the land you call exile, you awaken the consciousness capable of redeeming the place and returning you to your home within.