Heritage as a Lion Within

Neville's Inner Vision

All the pieces of Jeremiah 12:8-9 are not prophecies happening to you, but signals from your own state of consciousness. Your heritage, described as a lion in the forest that roars against you, is the vivid manifesting of a belief you have insisted upon about who you are. The speckled bird, pressed by beasts, represents every worn opinion about yourself that you have fed until it seems to attack your peace. In Neville’s terms, God is the I AM, the awareness by which you feel and imagine; the outer world is your dream, and you are the dreamer, not the dream. The emotional storm—hatred of heritage, fear of encirclement—is simply the movement of an old assumption. To reinterpret it, refuse to fight the forms and revise the assumption behind them. Return to the I AM and assume: 'My heritage is mine to govern; I am the I AM now.' When you feel that this is true, the lion quiets, the birds disperse, and a new, harmonious scene arises in its place.