Be Not Afraid: Inner Zion

Neville's Inner Vision

Be not afraid is not a command to cower before catastrophe, but a shift in consciousness. Zion represents the quiet awareness that the I AM is present, unchanged by shifting appearances. The Assyrian, with its rod and staff, embodies the thoughts of threat and limitation that seem to press upon you from the outside world. Neville’s method teaches us that such threats are not forces against you but images in a living mind. When you identify with the I AM, you realize you are not defined by fear but by the royal, unassailable presence within. The rod can only shake you if you imagine it as real; when you revise the scene with the certainty, 'I am free now', the force dissipates, replaced by peace, courage, and a clear sense of direction. Your inner state of assuredness alters the pattern of events. The passage invites you to trust Providence; to rest in the fact that the seeming foe is a sign to turn inward and affirm your true nature as consciousness. In that stillness, the deliverance you seek is already accomplished in imagination.