Sour Drink, Sacred Refusal

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's frame, the sour drink signals the inner emotion when loyalty to Truth is traded for greed. The continual whoredom points to a mind habitually turning away from the I AM toward transient gains. The rulers—inner faculties of will, judgment, and desire—are said to love these sordid rewards with shame, while the outer behavior remains as if governed by different laws. In this view, consciousness creates experience: identify with the state that worships wealth and you empower it to rule. The verse invites a reversal: notice the sourness as a message that your true ruler is forgotten. By assuming the I AM as sovereign and revising any belief that money, power, or status defines you, you begin to dissolve the old dynamics. When you hold that sacred assurance, the sourness fades and true worship—loving what is eternal—naturally expresses itself as your life.