Ramathlehi Within: Inner Victory

Neville's Inner Vision

As I turn to the inner scene, I realize the jawbone is not metal but a symbol of your latent faculty of imagination. The thousand men are the many outward circumstances, fears, and doubts that would overwhelm you. The act is not conquest of others but the awakening of consciousness. When I speak, 'With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, have I slain a thousand men,' I am naming in my heart a new internal method; the tool I wield in the inner landscape is belief that I am the I AM, the resident power. The place Ramathlehi becomes a marker of the high place where the mind has cast away its old weapon and asserted a victory in the imagination. Every time I imagine I hold that jawbone, I am proving that power is within and not in externals. The mighty act is completed in consciousness first; the outer events follow as an expression of inner acceptance. So, stand in the certainty that you have already slain the 'million' of thoughts that oppose your peace by an act of inner seeing.