Cain and the Inner Banished Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Cain's cry is your cry when you forget your unity with the I AM. The punishment he fears is not a future doom but a present misalignment in consciousness. To say, 'I am driven from the face of the earth' declares a mind that has lost sight of the God within; the exile and vagabond life are inner restlessness, born of the belief that you are a separate self roaming in a hostile garden. The fear that 'every one that findeth me shall slay me' is fear of judgment from others, a projection of the mind that has forgotten its own divine core. In awakening, you reverse the scene by assuming a state of consciousness in which you are always in the presence of God, never punished, and never at odds with life. When you affirm the presence within, external conditions soften and you walk in the garden of awareness, free from fear, for you know you are the I AM.