Inner Suffering, Exalted Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Every clause is a portrait of your inner state. The phrase 'it pleased the LORD to bruise him' is the turning of your consciousness toward the giver of life: you do not resist the feeling of lack; you let the old self die in imagination. When you 'make his soul an offering for sin,' you offer the sense of separation as a sacrifice to be burned away by the heat of awareness. In that fire you are renewal, not punishment. 'He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days' signals that your new self will bear fruit and endure; the LORD's pleasure prospering in his hand is the inner joy that follows when your assumption is aligned with truth. 'By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many' means your inner knowing—your sense of I AM-ness—releases others from guilt as you stand in righteousness. 'He bore their iniquities' becomes the act of forgiving and enabling more life; 'intercession for the transgressors' is your habitual prayerful blessing in thought. Thus, the path is to dwell in the conviction that you are the beloved, who, through inner sacrifice and intercession, enters the great, sharing the spoil of awakened consciousness.