Gold as Confidence Reimagined

Neville's Inner Vision

From the inner eye, Job’s lines reveal that wealth is not a possession but a state of consciousness that can pretend to rule. When I make gold my hope or praise wealth as my confidence, I have momentarily invited a form of idolatry into my mind, a belief that appearance and measure are the measure of life. But in the Nevillean view, appearances—sun, moon, riches—are only vivid images in the dream of I AM. The I AM is the one enduring reality; it is the source that sustains every form and every fortune. Thus the remedy is not to reject wealth but to reframe it: see wealth as a symptom of inner abundance that arises from awareness itself, not from external accumulation. By choosing to affirm, inwardly, that I am the wealth and the confidence, I revise the basis of my security. I awaken to the truth that the light I notice in the sun or the moon is the light within me, the one I AM.