Jonah's Inner Temple

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville Goddard, the page is a map of consciousness. The cast-out feeling is not a physical exile but a moment when the I AM has forgotten itself in the whirl of images. The waters surrounding the speaker are the currents of thought that flood the mind, the soul pressed by belief until identity seems swallowed. The depths and the weed-wrapped head symbolize submerged conditions—habits of fear and lack that crown the mind with heaviness. The bars of the earth at the bottom represent the impression that life is imprisoned by circumstance. Yet the line 'thou hast brought up my life from corruption' marks a pivot: awareness returns to its own power, not to a rescue from without. The holy temple becomes the state of consciousness in which prayer enters and is heard, because there the I AM dwells. When the soul faints, the memory of the LORD is the signal, not a plea to an external God. Salvation, in this reading, is the revision of how you feel and who you believe yourself to be: vibrate, with faith, in tune with the eternal Presence and you rise, not outwardly but inwardly, into life.