The Inner Sword Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Within every soul the city named by God is your own state of I AM. When Jeremiah says, 'I begin to bring evil,' he speaks of the natural consequences that arise when a belief in separation or fear takes hold in consciousness. The 'city' is the inner disposition you have named as yours, and the 'sword upon all the inhabitants' is the piercing action of your own imagination turning on what you have believed. The warning 'ye shall not be unpunished' is a reminder that every thought and feeling you permit to govern your life will be made manifest. But this is not punishment from an external God; it is the self-acting law of consciousness, the inner consequences of your imagined life. To rise is to awaken to the truth that the I AM can revise any scene. By recognizing that you are the cause and the audience of your reality, you can reinterpret the edict as a call to prune old identifications and replace fear with faith, imagining a just, harmonious state.