Lament and the Inner Dawn

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as a national lament, the passage is really an invitation to inspect your inner climate. The vine and harvest stand for the living self you imagine yourself to be and the abundance you claim. When the text says I will water thee with my tears, regard tears as the rain of awareness washing away old pictures; your I AM conscience is not condemning but inviting, re-dressing your awareness with compassionate power. The vow that the shouting for summer fruits has fallen marks a turning point: you are asked to revise your inner state, to stop clinging to a story of lack and begin to feel the regained vitality already present. When the inner parts sound like a harp, hear it as the body's resonance with a new harmony you are choosing. The chapter thus offers no punishment, only a doorway: by assuming and inhabiting a higher state of consciousness, your outer situation comes to reflect the inner well-being you have decided is real.