Inner Enmity, Inner Victory

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as a map of inner states, Genesis 3:15 speaks not of literal enemies but of the two currents in consciousness. The 'serpent' denotes the habit of separation—fear, doubt, the sense of lack—while the 'woman' stands for the living idea of your I AM, the awareness that multiplies truth when it is claimed. The 'seed' of each is the focus of attention: one grows into limitation, the other into freedom. Enmity, then, is the friction that signals awakening; it is not punishment but the birth-pangs of consciousness. The prophecy, in Neville's terms, is your inner victory: the seed of the woman crushes the head of the serpent by a steadfast assertion of I AM. When you persist in that assumption, the world rearranges itself to reflect your inner state; the 'heel' injury is the last resistance of the old self, the habit of fear's retaliation, which fades as the new realization takes hold. This is not future history but present possibility—you are the one who wills the outcome by the inner seed you cherish.