The Lion and the Marvel Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the lion and the hunt are not happenings 'out there' but images sprung from your own consciousness. The increasing pressure is the rising momentum of a belief you are holding in lack or danger. God, the I AM, is not distant but within; the moment you acknowledge that presence, the 'marvellous' display of power appears in your life. When Job says 'thou huntest me,' he names the inner drama by which the self tries to wake you: the horned fear becomes a signal calling you to identify with the eternal I AM. The lion becomes a symbol of the desire to wake to your true identity, and the marvel is the instant of realization—when you rest in the fact that you are God within, perceiving through your own consciousness. In this light, the verse invites a simple practice: shift your attention from the problem to the awareness that you are the consciousness that creates it, and the solution unfolds as the inner light.