Inner Escape to the Mountain

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 19:15-17 is not a travelogue but a map of interior escape. The city you are fleeing is a state of consciousness dense with fear, habit, and self-importance; the angels are the active faculty of awareness—your I AM—pulling your attention toward a higher ground. When they say, Arise, take thy wife and thy daughters, they utter your inner directive to abandon identifications that keep you imprisoned by doom. The mercy that takes Lot by the hand is the loving intervention of your own inward light, the God within, which refuses to abandon you to the flame of belief. Hesitation to move is the last residue of attachment; yet you are carried forth and set outside the city, as if by grace. The command to escape to the mountain, and not to look behind, disciplines attention: do not rehearse the past; fix your vision on a higher possibility. As you obey within imagination, the old scene dissolves, and you emerge into a clearer horizon where judgment becomes discernment and redemption becomes the steady state of your consciousness.