The Mirage of Wealth

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the external tale of wealth’s collapse is but a mirror of inner states. The man who feigns security by silver and fine raiment is imagining himself as separate from the I AM, a consciousness chasing forms that perish. In Neville’s terms, every outer circumstance—offspring, accumulation, fame—is only the movement of inner belief. The sword that multiplies the wicked’s children, the wind that drives him out of his place, the encircling fear—all of it reveals a mind clinging to possession instead of identity. Yet the verse names a counterlaw: the just shall put on what the wicked cannot keep, and the innocent shall divide the spoils in inner harmony. When you identify with wealth as your security, you are already displaced from your true self; when you revise that image and feel the I AM as your permanent abundance, the storm passes. God’s cast is not a punishment so much as the separation of illusion from reality, a purification that clears the field for the true inheritance—unchanging awareness.