Rachel Weeping Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that nothing occurs in the outer scene unless your inner state calls it forth. Herod is not merely a tyrant; he embodies the ego's fear that innocence and truth will be annihilated. Bethlehem signifies the quiet center of consciousness where true perception is born; the children symbolize pure beliefs living within you. The two years old and under marks a lingering, immature thought cleared by time as you wake. When lament rises—“Rachel weeping”—that is the mind’s alarm, the inner word of separation echoing in Rama. Yet the prophecy’s fulfillment is not a prediction of doom; it is a pointer: the moment you stop identifying with fear and begin recognizing the I AM beneath all appearances, what seemed to die is only a belief that your life is apart from God. The external tragedy becomes an invitation to reenter your inner kingdom and choose a different state. So, you do not resist; you revise. You affirm that you are awareness, unbound by pasts or futures, and that the presence that cannot be touched by Herod lives as you here and now.