Voice Against the Crowd Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, Jeremiah is the whispered I AM, and the crowd is a chorus of outdated states of consciousness. When Azariah, Johanan, and the proud cry, 'Thou speakest falsely,' they are not addressing a person but a present inner influence asking you to depart from the familiar Egypt of fear. Baruch, the scribe of circumstances, represents the habitual thought that would set you on a path your present state cannot sustain; the good are to 'deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans' are the images of doom that arise when you cling to the old self. Your real problem is not an external conspiracy but your identification with a thought system that fears change. Jeremiah's warning to avoid Egypt is really the inner warning to leave a mental land of sameness and to trust the guiding voice within. In Neville's realm, events are not conspiracies against you but scenes enacted by your own beliefs; shift the belief, and the scene dissolves. The inner speaker remains true; the outer appears to resist only to call forth your clearer sense of the inevitable benevolent order. State the truth: I am the Lord (I AM) acting now through me, and all opposition fades into your radiant direction.