Eden Ahead, Fire Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Suppose you read Joel's fiery procession as a description of your inner climate. The columns of fire before and flame behind are not armies, but states of awareness moving through you. The forward fire is your assumption—an ongoing felt reality that what you desire is already present. The rear flame nourishes faith and the memory of your power to sustain that state. When, in imagination, the land ahead looks like Eden, you are simply consenting to the truth that consciousness creates form; the wilderness behind is the outworn pattern fading as you dwell in the new impression. The clause nothing shall escape them signals that every event, every circumstance, is drawn into the orbit of your assumed state. Thus, refinement comes not from pleading with external conditions but from a disciplined inner conviction: you are the I AM, and your inner vision is the law shaping your world. The exile and return imagery becomes invitation: return to the garden by living from the fulfilled inner state.