Gather Your Inner Wares

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah speaks as the living I AM, the consciousness that gathers its wares from the land of appearances. The inhabitant of the fortress is the mind clinging to security in form—the outer possessions, the separate self. When the Lord says He will sling out the inhabitants, He is not threatening a future calamity; He is declaring the inner disturbance that follows a stubborn identification with lack and limitation. The distress is a divine alarm that wakes you to the truth that your life has been built on fleeting props. If you heed the call, you cease resisting change long enough to revise your assumption about yourself. The exile becomes a necessary desert that purifies desire, returning you to the inward abundance you already are. In this sense, the warning is mercy: it compels you to acknowledge that the realm you inhabit is made by your consciousness, not by geography. To practice: assume you have already gathered and relocated the 'wares' of the old self, and let the new sense of I AM fill every room of your inner fortress.