Wings of Inner Wisdom

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the hawk and the eagle as emblems of your inner faculties, soaring at the behest of an inward command. When Job asks, 'Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom?', he invites you to see that your own powers—your thoughts, desires, and decisions—fly under a wise, unseen governor: your I AM. The southward stretch of the hawk's wings and the eagle's ascent to a high nest are not distant natural feats; they are symbols of consciousness aligning with a divine order. Providence, for Neville, is the literal movement of imagination into form: the moment you acknowledge that you are present, you begin to feel that your world is being shaped by the truths you now accept as real. The Presence of God is not external but within as the steady witness declaring, 'I am that I am.' Thus the birds teach that every event is a movement of inner sense; your life is the nest you imagine into existence.