Ashes of Inner Lime

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine this verse as a map of your inner landscape. When it speaks of a people burned like lime and thorns cut up by fire, hear it as the purifying flame of awareness passing through your mind. The 'people' are not distant crowds but the clinging habits, fears, and small judgments you carry. The lime burnings symbolize the daily cleansing by imagination: thoughts that resist dissolution are turned to powder, and what remains is the clear, newborn I AM. The fire does not punish you; it reveals you to yourself as you truly are—the presence that witnesses, not the ego’s agitation. In this light, judgment becomes a turning of attention inward, accountability a willingness to revise your belief about who you are. Let the inner flame consume the thorns of limitation, and notice that the moment of consumption is the moment you awaken to a higher state of consciousness. The scriptural image invites you to trust that your desires are already fulfilled in the orbit of awareness, awaiting your steady feeling and assumption.