Inner Rebuilding, Outer Deception

Neville's Inner Vision

Take the verse as a mirror of your inner weather. The bricks fallen down symbolize the visible proofs of a prior dream; the boast, we will build with hewn stones, is the ego promising outer order while remaining asleep to inner condition. The statement the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars is the impulse to force a different form by will alone, rather than to awaken a new state of consciousness. In Neville's sense, these outward claims reveal an inner state of pride, maintenance of the self-image, and the belief that security comes from constructs you can see. The true building is not of stone but of awareness. When you recognize that your current circumstance is a projection of the inner picture, you can choose a different assumption: that you are already crowned with the enduring cedar of I AM, supported by the unshakable consciousness that creates form. The moment you enter that inner agreement, the external bricks surrender to your new dream.