Return of the I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

Let the verse be read as a mirror for consciousness. 'What have I here?' asks the Lord, naming the condition you have accepted as real. In Neville's terms, 'people' are states of awareness; 'they rule over them' are the beliefs and habits that dominate your inner city. When you identify with lack, you hear a howl of oppression, as if exiled by forces outside you. Yet God is not outside; He is I AM—the awareness you are right now, the power to revise any scene. The blasphemy you hear daily is the inner script that doubts your divine nature. The cure is a single act of inward revision: assume you are already crowned by the I AM, that the inner kingdom is intact, that the exile has ended. When you hold that assumption in feeling, the external scene rearranges to match your inner state. There is no real exile, only a shift in consciousness, and the Name of God is no longer blasphemed in your life but celebrated within.