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Neville's Inner Vision

To the senses, Jeremiah speaks of a people who wander from the true altar, chasing idols up every mountain and under every green tree. Yet this image is not history alone; it is a map of your own consciousness. Israel is the state of mind that forgets its I AM and runs after substitutes. Judah mirrors that weakness until both are estranged from the inner life, and the land, your experiences, becomes defiled by the lightness of wandering, by clinging to stones and stocks, i.e., outward symbols. The 'bill of divorce' is the moment you imagine you are separate from the One. The remedy is to return by centering attention in the I AM, to feel as if you are already the beloved wife who cannot be separated from her Husband. When you hear the call 'Turn thou unto me,' answer by turning inward in imagination, not in geography. The heart is the land; the events you perceive are inner movements of consciousness. Your task is to revise the sense of separation by assuming unity, and to feel the return as a real, living state within you.