Inner Pride Healed: Isaiah 9:9

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's light, the 'people' are states of consciousness; 'Ephraim' and the 'inhabitant of Samaria' are inner departments of the mind that rise up in pride. When you hear 'pride and stoutness of heart,' understand it as the ego's insistence on a separate existence—the belief that you are the self-will rather than the I AM. The verse speaks of a knowing that is inward, an awakening to the fact that your awareness is not the prideful state but the witness of it. The moment you cease identifying with the ego and anchor your attention in the I AM, the grip of pride loosens. This is not judgment from an external source but a transformation of inner identification—from the proud facade to the intimate, quiet awareness that you ARE the I AM, with all else moving as a dream of imagination within you. Return to the feeling of being, not the thought of being a separate self. Let the stout heart soften into receptive knowing, and your world arranges itself as the living expression of consciousness.