Inner Exile and the Signet

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture Coniah as a frozen image of a favored self-concept you have worn as your crown. The Lord's line about the signet on His right hand is a vivid illustration that a fixed identity, handled by fear and defense, can be plucked and made to suffer exile when inner alignment with I AM is broken. The “I will cast thee out” and the accompanying exile are inner movements—outer consequences that mirror your inner dislocation. When you fear those who seek thy life or the faces thou fearest, you are witnessing the inner drama of keeping a separate self apart from God’s life. Exile, in this sense, is not punishment; it is a signal to revise. The true land is the consciousness that never truly leaves: the I AM that is always home. The promise that they shall not return to the land of their desire points to the possibility that, by shifting identification from the old signet to the living I AM, you may find a new inner country where past fleeing ceases and wholeness returns. The moment you align with I AM, exile dissolves into inner return.