Inner Covenant Vision Genesis 15:9-14

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the ritual is not for God, but for Abram’s inner state. The animals laid in two rows symbolize the parts of self brought into alignment by a vivid assumption; the birds' failure to divide may signify the stubborn divisions of fear that cannot touch the solid you when you hold a single conscious fact. The dark sleep and the horror are not punishment, but the necessary stir of the subconscious as it yields to a higher reality. When God proclaims that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land, he speaks to your imaginal seed—the idea you currently carry about what is possible. Yet the promise persists: a later exodus with great substance shows that the inner state creates an outer procession. If you remain faithful to the vision, the outward scene rearranges itself to confirm your inner state. Exile is the threshold through which you travel to awaken abundance.