Good Figures Of Exile: Inner Acknowledgment

Neville's Inner Vision

Exile here represents a change of scene in your inner life, not a punishment. The good fig image tells you that your state of consciousness, though relocated, is still fruitful and worthy of acknowledgment by the I AM within you. When you are carried away into new conditions—disciplines, anxieties, or pressures—the divine gardener says you are still good; you are in a process that prepares you to bear more of your true nature. The word acknowledged is an inner act: the moment you refuse to condemn the new place and instead affirm your goodness there, you align with the divine verdict. Your good state is not found by escaping the land of captivity but by recognizing that the captivity exists to refine your fig-tree faculty—perception, choice, imagination. The merciful Lord is your present awareness who guides you to grow toward greater fruitfulness. So see the present environment as the nurturing soil in which your inner fruit ripens.