Israel's Inner Trial

Neville's Inner Vision

You are not a nation bound to a distant episode; you are the one consciousness that calls itself Israel. When you “do evil,” you step out of the I AM and imagine yourself as a separate self under law. The Philistines become inner forces—doubt, fear, habit—that appear as outer oppression only because you have forgotten your true Identity. The forty years symbolize a long habit of identification with lack rather than with the Presence that never leaves you. The cure is not to fight the Philistines but to restore your awareness of the I AM. Return to the truth that you are the one Mind, and that the entire scene is a projection of your inner state. As you resume this single feeling, the sense of bondage loosens, and deliverance follows as a natural consequence of belief rightly placed. Stop judging the outer appearance; instead, revise it by assuming, here and now, that you are whole, safe, and unoppressed. When you insist on your divine identity, the so-called enemy dissolves into your own awareness.