Inner Restoration And Joy

Neville's Inner Vision

I tell you, the chapter is not about geography but the state you inhabit. The 'old wastes' and 'desolations' are memories and beliefs you have accepted as final. When you entertain the idea that you can rebuild them in your inner life, you are laying stone upon stone of a new consciousness. The strangers and the sons of the alien represent those unrecognized faculties within you—intuition, joy, courage—standing up to feed your flocks as you acknowledge them. As you call yourself 'the priests of the Lord' you are naming the God within—your I AM awareness—who ministers to all aspects of yourself. Eating the riches of the Gentiles and boasting in their glory means you feed on ideas and sources outside your former self and find your true abundance there, but only as you interpret them from your higher I AM. Your shame is exchanged for a double portion; your confusion becomes joy as you rest in the new land of consciousness you have decided to inhabit.