Inner Release Through Suffering

Neville's Inner Vision

Job's plea reveals not a desire for outer catastrophe, but a turning of the inner wheel. In Neville's language, God is I AM—the awareness in which you live—and destruction is not annihilation of being, but the breaking of a grip of a false identity. The verse speaks of a hand that would cut me off; yet the hand is your own imaginative power brought to bear on a belief. The suffering is the echo of a lived state; until you change the state, you crack under the same outdated self. When you discover that the I AM can suspend belief in limitation, the impulse to be destroyed dissolves into a conviction of release. The remedy is to refuse to seek outer evidence and instead assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled—believing that the end you crave is already done in the inner. By repeating the mental act, you loosen the bonds of the old Job and awaken as the mind that knows itself as free.