Cloud Ships of Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the text dissolves geography into states of consciousness. The cloud-like figures and the doves are not mere ships but your own mental movements—swift, clean, purposeful. The isles waiting for me and the ships of Tarshish are the parts of you ready to recognize and receive your own divine nature. When you say the name of the LORD God and the Holy One of Israel, you are naming your I AM, the ever-present awareness that glories you by means of the experiences you permit in consciousness. The gold and silver are your inner riches—qualities such as faith, forgiveness, courage—drawn to the center of your being as your attention returns home. Exile becomes the forgotten aspects of you that have wandered; they come back when the mind identifies with the self that already is complete. The glory God has placed upon you is not a future event but the awakening of perception, a returning to the wholeness you are.