Noon War Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the state of consciousness Neville describes, 'her' is not a foreign city but a personal condition—the belief in separation, fear, and opposition. The marching orders 'prepare ye war against her' signal the mind's tendency to counter-attack its own inner disturbances. The call to go up at noon—the height of awareness—points to the moment you insist on acting from a separated self, pressing against the sense of limitation. The cry 'woe unto us' reveals self-inflicted judgment, a projection that time is slipping away and that you are under threat. The line about the shadows of the evening stretched out shows how old beliefs grow heavy as you withdraw your attention from the eternal I AM. The next instruction, 'arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces,' becomes a revision opportunity: at night the mind seeks to erase its imagined foundations. In truth, there is only the I AM perceiving itself. When you revise the belief by assuming 'I AM the only power here,' the war dissolves, and the imagined palaces crumble into light. Your world rearranges as consciousness aligns with love instead of conflict.