Inner Flight of Pride

Neville's Inner Vision

The pride of Israel is a state of consciousness that resists the I AM within. When one clings to outward powers—Egypt or Assyria in the text—one acts as if safety lies outside awareness itself, thus testifying to pride rather than truth. Ephraim, the dove without heart, represents a consciousness that has lost listening, calling for external protection rather than turning inward to the God that governs all. In Neville’s terms, places and events are inner movements; the temptation to seek Egypt or Assyria is a choice of mental weather, not geography. The remedy is to return to the inner Lord—recognize that God is the I AM present now, the governing consciousness. Let the self abandon the search for power outside and spend time in the stillness where trust is felt as real. As you revise your stance, you stop narrating dependence on illusions and begin to dwell in the living certainty of the inner God. The transformation is immediate when you accept that you are the I AM, and you seek nothing but its sovereign guidance.