Inner Lions and Divine Breath

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the blast and the roar as inner forces rather than external events. In this reading, the lion represents fear, pride, and habitual thought—predatory states that threaten your peace when you give them attention. The 'breath of his nostrils' and the breaking of teeth symbolize a decisive shift in energy: as consciousness, you can redirect life’s currents away from attack toward harmony. When you recognize that you are the I AM—the awareness that animates every feeling and image—you discover these lions have no independent power left to feed on your inner life. The old lion perishes for lack of prey, meaning the old patterns die when you stop allowing them to rule your attention. The whelps scatter as you cease giving fear a stage. Providence and guidance emerge not as distant judgments but as your own steady, present awareness that remains unmoved by appearances. The whole scene asks you to reidentify: you are the master of the inner theater, the imaginer who calls forth what appears. Change the state, and the outer scene reorders itself.