Inner Restoration & Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner theatre, Edom is the stubborn ego claiming lack and planning outward restoration. The Lord of hosts is the I AM within you, not a distant judge, and His reply is not punishment but correction of your starved sense of self. When you feel 'I am impoverished,' you have invited the 'border of wickedness' into your mind, because that belief becomes a prophecy of external ruin unless transformed. The verse teaches that the outer desolation is only the image your inner state generates; the true builder is the I AM who demolishes the old form when you insist upon it. To use Neville's technique, assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled by identifying with the inner builder and by revision: declare that the desolate places within you are now protected and transformed by your consciousness. When you feel the impulse to restore the ruins by massed effort, shift to the assumption that you already possess the rightness and abundance of your true self, and feel it as real. The power to change the world around you lies in a spiritual act of awareness, not in external striving.