The Inner Riddle of State

Neville's Inner Vision

In this scene the city is not a place but a state of consciousness asking for a final answer. Honey stands for the sweetness your imagination yields when aligned with the I AM; the lion is your inner vitality, the force of attention and desire. The seventh day marks the moment when your assumption must prove itself, the outer world pressuring you to reveal a thing that only your inner ground of being can provide. Samson’s line about plowing with my heifer signals that the conditions of your experience arise from a shared premise you have accepted about yourself. If you have fed on doubt, you will be unable to see the honey or feel the lion; but if you revise your premise and stand in the truth you are, those meanings magnify into outward form. Your state of consciousness is the sole creator; the heifer is the soil of your imagination where seeds of thought are tilled. When you consent to a new premise and declare it real, the riddle dissolves, and the city becomes an echo of your covenant loyalty to truth.