From Mire to Manifested Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Job’s cry—being cast into the mire and reduced to dust—is not a judgment on your fate, but a revelation of your inner state. In this light, the mire is a state of consciousness you temporarily wear when identification shifts to lack, exposure, and degradation. The dust and ashes are symbols of a forgotten I AM, the awareness that you are more than any passing scene. Yet the I AM remains itself, unharmed and unchanging, waiting for you to return to its sovereignty. To interpret the verse in Neville terms is to notice that you are always the imaginer, and your inward assumption crafts your outward scene. By choosing a new assumption—I am the I AM, the light of consciousness, untouched by outer appearances—you begin an inner revision. Feel the truth as if it already is: you stand in a steadier, brighter Self, not degraded but clarified. The outer sense of ruin will yield to continuity and power as you dwell in this state. Then the mire dissolves, and you awaken to the unchanging Self that you are.