Inner Foundations of Creation

Neville's Inner Vision

See the passage as a map of your inner landscape. When God asks, "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?" He invites you to recognize that the world you seemingly enter is already built within your awareness. The "measures" and "line" are the edits you make in your mind—what you permit and what you omit. The "corner stone" is your fixed assumption, the one you lay with thoughts until it becomes the foundation you inhabit. The morning stars and the sons of God singing together are the joyous convictions that accompany a true sense of order, the inner agreement that the cosmos of your life obeys your decree. When the sea is shut with doors, it is your feelings constrained by a deliberate posture of attention; the clouds are merely the garment of your inner weather, and the decree breaks the place to set a boundary. And when you say, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further," you train the waves of circumstance to yield to your realized idea. Creation, then, is not distant: it is the self feeling its own foundation.