Inner Sorrow, Inner Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

Upon the surface, these lines speak of cursing those who persecute you, as if fate hinges on their ruin. Yet in the Neville view, the page discloses a condition of consciousness: a mind convinced of separateness and ownership, imagining hostile others as real. The 'they' are not other people but a myriad of thoughts and fears within your own heart. The heavens of the LORD that are invoked are the inner heavens—the I AM that perceives all and remains untouched by the dream of attack or revenge. When one insists that enemies condemn you to sorrow, you are insisting that you are not the master of your own state. The turn of the scripture is not a mandate to strike outward, but a call to revise the internal scene: to replace the image of persecution with the image of blessed, whole beings and to affirm, 'I AM the cause of all I experience.' As you persist in this revised feeling, your external conditions shift to reflect a unified consciousness rather than a divided one.