Inner Isaiah: Death of Old Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the inner eye, Isaiah’s line speaks of the end of a long-forgotten opposition—not in history’s terms, but in your own consciousness. They are not persons you fight; they are old states of fear, doubt, and limitation that you once believed had power over you. When you acknowledge 'they are dead, they shall not live,' you are not predicting a future victory but announcing a present change of identity. To visit and destroy them is to visit the I AM within and dissolve their impress upon your mind. Making all their memory perish means you withdraw attention from the scene where those old beliefs once walked. In Neville’s terms, imagination is the instrument that does the work; the moment you assume the end—the alive you, the free you, the one in perfect justice and restoration—the inner movement is complete. The outer world may still look the same, but you recognize the truth that you have risen beyond all opposition. This is resurrection in action: the mind consoles itself with its own act of creation until the external scene aligns with the inner revelation.