Liberation of Inner States

Neville's Inner Vision

Joshua 24:5-6 speaks not of a historical escape alone, but of the inner exodus of consciousness. Egypt is the mind imprisoned by limitation; Moses and Aaron are the faculties of imagination and revelation I, the I Am, call forth. The plagues are inner movements that shake the old sense of self; afterward I bring you out—that is, I reassure and reidentify yourself as the one who is already free. The crossing to the sea is your passage from fear to faith, the moment you realize you are not the observer of circumstance but the creator of it. When the Egyptians pursue with chariots and horsemen, they symbolize lingering doubts and mechanical habits clinging to you; yet the sea parts for you when you assume the end state: you are already in possession of the land of plenty. The act of deliverance precedes any outward change; the return to bondage dissolves as you hold the truth in imagination and maintain the feeling of freedom. The narrative asks you to trust your inner decree, not the outward event, for God—your I Am—has already led you out.