The Inner Light and Living Waters

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the verses as a map of consciousness, not geography. The light that is parted mirrors the clear, discriminating attention of your I AM, distinguishing what you affirm from what you omit. The scattered east wind and the watercourses are the movements of your feeling and imagination—how ideas travel, how moods ripple, how a thought-beam finds its channel. When the verse asks who makes it rain where no man is, it is pointing to the inner desert of mind and the rain that arises not from external causes but from the capacity of your awareness to imagine. To satisfy the desolate ground is to permit your inner soil to receive the bud of a tender herb—the new state you desire. The ice and frost represent frozen conditions of thought; the waters hid as with a stone speak of the subconscious depths awaiting your command. You are asked to acknowledge that your interior climate sets the weather of your world; the deep is not inert but awaiting your revision.