Listening to Inner Elders

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville’s psychology, the elders are not distant sages but inner states of consciousness: the steady I AM that remembers what is true. When Job asks you to inquire of the former age, he is pointing you to the inner voices you carry—the beliefs, loyalties, and habits that have guided you. The clause that we are but of yesterday signals that the only enduring authority is the present certainty you cultivate now, in awareness. Therefore, those elder teachers will teach thee and utter words from their heart when you quiet the outer noise and revise the claim of lack or doubt. Humility and meekness here mean surrendering to the possibility that wisdom already resides within your own mind, waiting to be invoked by imagination. The life of faith is not a search outward but a turning of attention inward, where the I AM speaks through images, words, and feelings that feel true. If you attend to that inward school and affirm its authority, discernment grows, and fidelity to your inner law replaces fear with trust.