The Former Of All Things Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner state is the Jacob of this text: not a people apart from God, but your own consciousness, the portion you claim as real. The 'former of all things' is not a distant deity but the I AM within you, the act of imagining that orders your world. When you decide that you form your life, you become the Lord of hosts of your own mind. The phrase 'Israel is the rod of his inheritance' becomes a symbol for the disciplined imagination through which you extend your inner wealth into outward experience. The inheritance is not external luck but the precise, chosen state you walk in day by day. To see it, dwell in the feeling that you are the architect of your circumstances, that all events bend to your inner decree, because you are the living expression of the divine form. Remember: the only 'portion' that matters is the one you affirm and inhabit as real.