Inner Captivity, Inner Triumph

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the king of Assyria not as a conqueror of nations but as the activity of fear moving through your mind. The Egyptians and Ethiopians are the old symbols of your outward glory and hoped-for security—your beliefs about what gives you standing. When you feel led away, naked and exposed, you are witnessing the moment your old self-image is stripped bare before your own awareness. The fear and the shame of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory, are the inner reactions to threatening outcomes you have made real in imagination. But in Neville’s practice, this naked exposure is not punishment; it is the clarifying air by which you distinguish the I AM, the eternal witness, from the misidentification with form. As you observe, you may revise: the self you are is not dependent on external success or failure but on the presence that perceives. When you stop defending the outer empire and turn to the inner I AM, the sense of threat dissolves and you awaken to a stable, inner rule.