Inner Authority of Silence

Neville's Inner Vision

I tell the inner scene as a mirror of consciousness. The voices of the three elder speakers are not distant persons but states of mind—habit, tradition, settled opinion. Elihu’s patience is the inner stillness of awareness, the I AM that waits for a true note to rise from within life. When he perceives no answer in the mouths of the elder voices, his wrath is kindled—the natural magnetism of consciousness turning when a larger truth is ready to move. Do you not see? The eruption is not punishment but the birth pangs of a new discernment. In Neville’s terms, the room inside you becomes crowded with voices until a fresh assumption arises that can hold the whole scene. The elder voices cling to what is known; the new speaker embodies a higher level of consciousness that can reinterpret all suffering, Job’s trials, and the promise hidden in the silence. Your own mind, in quiet, can permit a new interpretation to emerge, and the felt reality of that insight draws it forth into outward life.