Woes of Vanity Revealed

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Isaiah 5:18-23 as a map of your inner weather, not a decree about others. Woe appears when you draw iniquity with cords of vanity—binding sin to the image you want the world to admire—so you hurry external events to prove your illusion. The appeal, 'Let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh,' is the subconscious cry for proof from something outside you, while the inner I AM remains unrecognized. When you call evil good and light evil, you have reversed your scales, mistaking appearances for reality and letting perception command your state. The warning against being wise in your own eyes and strong to mingle drink is the ego’s claim to independence, its ritual of self-justification. You justify the wicked for reward when you seek repayment in your ego’s currency, and you take away righteousness from the righteous by your judging mind. But all of this is the theater of a consciousness asleep. The cure is simple: declare, inwardly, I AM; align your thoughts with that reality; let your attention dissolve the scenes of vanity and reveal the quiet, just presence within.