Inner Valor of Judges 20

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's reading, the battlefield is the inner theatre of consciousness. The twenty-five thousand fallen are not external enemies but old beliefs, worn-out images, and fear impulses you have mistaken for yourself. The phrase 'men of valour' marks the stubborn vitality of these beliefs, not their truth. When they fall, the mental climate shifts and a verdict is declared: a life framed by separation is thinning, and new light enters. The wilderness and the rock of Rimmon are not places you go, but states of awareness you inhabit when you forget you are the I AM. The pursuit after them is your attention, chasing after residual habits until they are slain in awareness. The effect is not punishment but a purification of imagination: you have the power to revise the scene, to declare that the entire day’s tally is a symbolic defeat of separation and a revelation of unity. Your true strength arises as you accept that the inner war is over because you decide it to be. The outer world will mirror the cleared inner territory, and the casualties become the discipline through which you awaken to the I AM’s abiding presence.