Open Air Within the Scales

Neville's Inner Vision

Behold, the lines in Job 41:15-17 reveal a state, not a beast: the scales that guard pride are a closed atmosphere of consciousness. When I enter into this scripture, I see that air cannot pass because I have identified with a separate self, with self-importance as armor. Yet I am the I AM, the living awareness that breathes. The joints—so near, so tight—describe how thoughts of separation chain themselves, sealing off any influx of life. But the I AM can revise from within, not by breaking the armor, but by shifting the inner posture. I assume a new living state: air between scales, the breath of God between every thought. I feel it real: I am open, I am receptive, I am the space that makes unity possible. Pride loses its hold as humility and meekness awaken as natural expressions of the same I AM. In this inner movement, the scales become a membrane rather than a prison, and life flows through, as the air flows through the body. You and God are one presence, now breathing as one.