Homeward Exile of Self

Neville's Inner Vision

I read this decree as the inner law of consciousness. The dead are the old states you cling to as if they exist apart from you; do not weep for them. The one who goes away is the portion of you that drifts from alignment with your I AM; he will not return to the homeland of your awareness. When Shallum is led into exile and cannot return, it is the mind telling you that a former self has died to the land you know. Yet your true home remains—your inner land, the I AM that never departs from you. The shift is not punishment but invitation: you can rise above the outer forecast by assuming the end you desire. In practice, you revise the narrative until the sense of exile dissolves and you feel yourself already residing in your native country within. The law is simple: your inner state creates your outer world; if you accept a new state now, the former wanderer returns to the land of presence in imagination.