Inner Desolation to Abundant Life

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as a state of consciousness, the verses reveal that the man’s desolation is not punishment but a belief about himself. The cities he dwells in and the houses that no one inhabits are inner dispositions—places of mind emptied by fear and doubt, where wealth and perfection seem to perish because imagination has not been stirred. The line 'He shall not be rich' is the inner verdict of a consciousness convinced that abundance is outside rather than within. Darkness is not a place to escape from, but a condition of awareness the mind slides into when it accepts limitation. The 'breath of his mouth' represents the spoken habit that reinforces the dream; as we stop feeding that habit with fresh images, the old vitality dries like a flame. Yet the power remains untouched in the I AM behind the scene. When you choose to awaken to your true self, you revise reality by imagining the inner abundance as already real, and the outer signs will follow because you insist that life is issued from the one living you.