Awakening Pride Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the 'king of Assyria' not as a man outside you, but as a fixed self-image that you have trusted to carry you. The line says: when the Lord completes his work within Zion—the seat of your awareness—the fruit of that stout heart will be punished. In Neville's terms, power and wealth are not 'out there' but the vibrational states you harbor: the boast 'By the strength of my hand I have done it' is a mental posture of self-reliance. The text exposes that such claims are made by imagination not by outer circumstances. When you insist that 'I'—your personal will—has moved mountains, you entrap yourself in a nest of riches and a sense of security that the outer world must feed. The corrective is inner transformation: the Lord's work on Zion revises the instrument (the ego) until it no longer leans on its own strength. Then the 'earth' is gathered only as the fruit of a new awareness, and nothing moves the wing or peeps except the I AM. The passage invites you to collapse the boastful mind into the one Power, and to rest in the realization that all action flows from within.