Inner Prison Bread of Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

Like all of us, Jeremiah discovers that the outer prison is but a symbol of an inward condition. The king's command to confine him and the daily bread symbolize the mind's habit of clinging to old stories while yet yearning for relief. In Neville's terms, the real scene is your inner state: you are the I AM, and the king you seek is your own higher awareness approving your supplication. The court of the prison becomes a chamber of testimony where an inner conviction is fed; the bread is not physical nourishment alone but the sustaining image by which you refuse to accept collapse. Your request is accepted in consciousness when you claim it as already done, not as an event to be gained. The longer Jeremiah stays in that place, the more clearly you see that endurance is not resignation but a steady, vivid assumption of your own freedom. If you persist, the outer conditions will follow the inner motion of your heart.