Return From Evil Imagination

Neville's Inner Vision

The language of 'evil' and 'devices' in Jeremiah is the language of inner life. The LORD’s words arrive as a reminder that the frame you call evil and the devices you devise exist first as thoughts in your own consciousness. You are not at the mercy of others’ will; you are the I AM that imagines. To 'return ye now from his evil way' is to revise your inner scenery. If you cry 'there is no hope,' you have chosen a mental weather system, and your days will follow that forecast. The remedy is to clothe yourself in a new state of awareness—one in which you imagine yourself already doing good and choosing rightly, until the feeling of that choice becomes natural. When you refuse the imaginations of fear and dwell in the aware presence of your higher self, the old patterns lose traction and new possibilities arise. The imagination of your heart becomes the architect of your world; change the image, and you change the events you experience.