Inner Glory When It Feels Thin

Neville's Inner Vision

On Isaiah 17:4, the thinning of Jacob’s glory and the lean of his flesh is not punishment but a clear image of a state of consciousness that has forgotten its divine source. Jacob stands for a named sense of self, a personal consciousness that mistakes outward signs for reality. When the inner sense of identity narrows—when the awareness of I AM recedes—the outer conditions follow, and vitality appears to drain. But to the one who knows imagination as the sole reality, this thinning is simply a prompt to revise. The day that comes is the moment you refuse to identify with the shrinking image and return to the truth that the I AM is the entire field of life. In that rebirth, Jacob’s glory returns as a fresh, luminous sense of self, and the lean outward forms give way to inner prosperity. Your task is to treat the feeling that you are already full, already vital, as the only fact, and let the external world catch up to the inner state.