Inner Word vs Scribal Vanity

Neville's Inner Vision

To those who think wisdom sits in pages and creeds, Jeremiah speaks a higher grammar: the law outwardly kept is nothing if the inner Word is not alive in consciousness. In Neville's terms, wisdom is not a bookish possession but a state of awareness, not a citation from a book. When the mind insists, 'We are wise; the law is with us,' it is the ego clinging to forms, while the true Word—the LORD's living presence within you—remains unheard. The pen of the scribes, a symbol of external technique, becomes vanity because it does not issue from the living I AM. The wise are ashamed not for lack of information, but for misplacing power into rusty traditions. The remedy is not more study, but a turning of attention inward, where the word of God is felt as actual presence, instruction, and authority. Assume that the Word already speaks through you now; revise any image of yourself as separate from that Word. When you do, the outer reports lose their claim to reality and your inner discernment grows steady, immediate, and true to life.