The Inner Worm of Providence

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner theatre, the worm is not a creature apart but an inner movement God awakens within you. The gourd you have leaned on, a symbol of protection and comfort—your temporary sense of security—withered at dawn because the inner state needed correction. 'God prepared' is the moment your awareness prepares a shift in form and circumstance. The worm's smiting shows that nothing in your world is permanent except the life of your own awareness. When you attend to this, you will see that the 'divine instrument' is simply a change in your state of consciousness that reveals what you truly cherish. The mercy is not punitive but corrective: it prunes attachments to externalities and restores a right alignment with the I AM. Creation and order arise as you revise your sense of reality—your inner eye selects which images survive. The outer gourd dies so the larger, eternal garden can reveal itself through your renewed inner order.