Inner Deliverer in Exile

Neville's Inner Vision

The passage invites you to see that outer scenes of persecution and exile are not happening to you as an external fate, but are the moving images of your inner state of consciousness. In Neville’s terms, life is the dream of a state you inhabit. When you feel hunted or cornered, that is the belief in limitation arising within your mind. The quoted end marks the death of a former self-belief, not a doom upon your soul. The 'breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD' is the breath of your I AM—the immortal I within—who, when you remember, is not trapped in pits but awakens as your true deliverer. To imagine yourself delivered by an outside force is to project fear; to identify with the deliverer is to recognize you are already free and sovereign within. The 'shadow' over the nations becomes a shadow you cast when you forget your own inner light. Return to the awareness that delivers you, and the exilic sense dissolves into a present, unassailable peace.