Inner River, Shadowed Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Job 40:22-24 presents us with a mighty creature, a symbol of a soul that trusts its own power to harbor and command life. In this inner vision, the shady trees and willows are not outer woods; they are states of consciousness shading and enclosing your feeling. The beast drinks the river and hastens not, believing it can draw Jordan into its mouth; this is the dream of the ego that thinks perception itself can conquer the world by force. The eyes that take the water and the nose that pierces snares reveal how focus and discernment can seem to cut paths through danger, yet the real power lies in the consciousness that interprets and relates to life. When you reinterpret these lines, you see that all power to command events resides not in the external act but in the inner conviction, the I AM that you are. The river is life itself flowing through you; you are not swallowing it, you are aware of it. Trust, not pride; security in creation, not possession. The test is to learn to rest in life’s movement and let your awareness hold all you perceive.