Sepulchre of Self, Exile to Light

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the verse as a map of inner movement. You are not the tomb you carve in the rock of your mind, but the I AM that watches the carving. The sepulchre is a fixed image of self that you constructed to endure in a rock-solid identity. Yet God—the I AM within—will carry you away from that image, not as punishment but as a relocation of your consciousness. When the mind is turned like a ball into a wider country, the old glitter and chariots of externally glorious self become the very stuff of shame viewed from a higher vantage. This is the inner exile that makes return possible: you are invited to leave the tomb behind and to fall back into your true state, a broader sense of self that can inhabit any circumstance. The prophecy speaks not of doom, but of a shift in awareness. As you accept a new state, you discover that the seeming exile is simply the shedding of an outgrown identity, making room for a richer inner life where the Lord’s house is no longer a showy fortress but a living presence that animates all you do.