Inner Flame and False Sparks

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the prophet points to the man-made light and the danger of making a god of your own spark. In the inner language of consciousness, the fire and the sparks are mental pictures—states of thinking you have created and now walk by. The eyelid of faith is pulled to the external glimmer, and so you walk in a pseudo illumination, thinking you advance when you merely rehearse yesterday's thought-forms. Isaiah does not threaten punishment from without, but reveals the law: you live by the light you identify with. If your sense of self is built on the sparks of opinion, career, fear, or preference, you will lie down in sorrow when those images dissolve or fail. The true light is the I AM within—your consistent awareness that you are the perceiver, not the scene. When you accept that you are the light that never fails, the entire day becomes a field of living possibility, not a canvas for outer sparks to govern you.