Sweet Sin, Bitter Revelation

Neville's Inner Vision

Job's words are not about an external foe; they are the inner weather of your own mind. The sweetness of wickedness is a pleasurable image you allow to linger in the palate of consciousness, while the tongue and mouth symbolize the inner dialogue you repeat in private. When you harbor that thought and keep it under your tongue, you begin to ferment a poison within your own being; the line about the gall of asps is the body's way of showing that your subconscious digestion is distorting the very substance of life. The cure is to wake to the I AM that you are—the steadfast awareness behind every thought. By assuming a state in which purity, integrity, and alignment with God are your undeniable reality, you reverse the current; the poison dissolves as you stop identifying with the thought and instead feel the truth of your unity with God. In this light, the appearance of sin's sweetness loses its grip, for you now dwell in the inner kingdom where your imagined world reflects your realized state.