Fear, Loss, and Inner Hope

Neville's Inner Vision

Inside you, the speaker becomes the I AM, the constant awareness holding every story. The father Jacob in the text speaks not of outward events but of inner states: memories of a vanished son stir fear that the other son might be torn away, and the body trembles with the belief that gray hairs and grave sorrow await. In Neville's sense, 'two sons' are two aspects of your own consciousness—the part that clings to past losses and the part that fears future bereavement. When you accept that your life is the I AM, not the ever-changing scene, you can reinterpret 'mischief' as a belief, not a fate. By assuming the revision—'Benjamin remains in my awareness; both sons exist within the timeless I AM'—you dissolve the separation between loss and life. The feeling-tone shifts from dread to fidelity; the mind ceases to project continuation of sorrow and begins to rest in the certainty that you are the perceiver who makes all. The verse invites you to treat fear as a state and to return to the sovereignty of awareness.