Inner Flight And The Blessing

Neville's Inner Vision

Jacob's flight is not a geographic escape but a withdrawal of a mind from a hostile outer world of thought toward the quiet abode of inner awareness. Esau's hatred is the stubborn vestige of fear clinging to the old life, the anger of a conditioned mind that identifies with outward blessing rather than with the unchanging I AM within. The blessing given to Jacob is the sign that the inner man already possesses what the outer world seeks to measure. Rebekah's counsel is your higher self directing you to protect the inner mood by stepping out of the cauldron of imminent conflict, not by denial, but by the strategic withdrawal that preserves life for the birth of a new state. To stay would be to identify with the outer scene; to flee, in Neville's sense, is to withdraw into a new pivot—the quiet, abiding consciousness that never changes. When, in your imagination, you accept the inner truth that you are already blessed, the outer fury cools and return becomes possible, not by force but by the shift in consciousness that makes the fear forget its charge.