Inner Fire Purifies Mind

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner sense, the chaff and stubble are beliefs you have taken as real about who you are. Your breath, as fire, is the directed life-force of imagination when you assent to a truth about your I AM. The fire devouring you is the inner recognition that you are not the stale image born of fear, but the I AM that watches the scene. When you stand in this awareness, the lime-bright crowd of opinion and calculation dissolves into ash, not as punishment but as the clearing of space for your real nature. The thorns cut up and burned symbolize obstacles you once thought permanent; by the flame of attention they are reduced to fuel for renewal. Realize that any apparent external condition is a mirror of your interior state; shift the state, and the world changes. If you feel heat and pressure, bless the purification, for it reveals the undying I AM behind the curtain of appearances.