Inner Exile, Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah 12:7 reads as a vivid inner scene: the house and heritage are not buildings but states of consciousness—habits of attention and emotional allegiance. The beloved of the soul represents the quality you cherish about yourself, the ideal you seek to be in the world. When these are handed to enemies, the enemies are not external conquerors but the restless thoughts, fear, and doubt that invade awareness when you have forgotten your true I AM. The remedy is not groveling before fate but revising the inner state. Return to the sense of I AM, and assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled: your inner house is intact, your heritage secure, and the beloved soul safely at rest within. As you persist in this mental revision, the outer circumstances follow suit, arranging themselves to reflect the restored consciousness. This is exile and return as a psychology: you leave the dependence on appearances to discover the sovereignty of inner awareness.