Breaking the Inner Vessel

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the pages of Jeremiah, the bottle is your old container of beliefs about yourself. When you break it in the sight of your inner company, you are dissolving the identity you have mistaken for reality. The vessel cannot be mended until you release the story that keeps it intact. In Neville's terms, the "LORD of hosts" becomes your I AM—the ruler of your inner atmosphere. The act of breaking the vessel is a conscious decision to terminate a consciousness that no longer serves you. The “city” and the “people” are your mental states—habits, fears, attachments—that must be broken so a new order can be born within. The Tophet burial is not cruelty; it is the emptying of what you cling to so there is room for a new form. When you imagine this break and declare with conviction what your I AM wills for you, you are judging the old self and inviting a remade self to arise with righteousness and justice as its law.