Inner Lions, Restored Cities

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's light, the lion and the destroyer are not external invaders but the intensified thoughts and feelings within your own consciousness. The desolate land and empty cities symbolize a mind-starved state caused by believing in lack and separation. The instruction to gird with sackcloth and lament becomes a gentle invitation to stop identifying with the nightmare and to turn attention inward. The fierce anger of the LORD is not a punishment from an outside deity but the clamor of a thought-form you have fed with belief. To redeem the scene, you must revise the premise: remind yourself that I AM is the sole consciousness, and that you can imagine the land prosperous and alive. When you dwell in the awareness of the I AM and feel the fulfilled state, the inner storm abates and you awaken to restoration. Judgment here functions as a pivot point, shifting from fear-born images to the realization of your creative identity.