Inner Storms, Outer Pride

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Isaiah’s image, the 'mighty and strong one' is not distant myth but the I AM within you, the steadfast awareness that steadies your life. The tempest of hail and destroying storm is the flux of thoughts and images that arise when consciousness confronts pride. The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, are the self-images you cling to—your need to prove, display, and possess. When you identify with these images, they appear to cast a shadow; but as you awaken, that inner tempest sweeps through the internal valley and trodden-under foot your vaunted selfhood. The glorious beauty on the head of the fat valley represents the glittering façade of outer success; as you hold to the sense of self by appearance, it fades like a fading flower and a fast fruit that is eaten in the hand. This is not punishment but a purification of consciousness. Your work is inner: accept the storm as movement in your mind, revise the assumption that you are anything but the I AM, and feel it real. In that feeling, the former pride dissolves and you awaken to true nature.